The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-06-17

of the outlines themselves.
The following is an outline of one of
the lectures on school management
ment-Regularity of Attendance.
1.-The law against absence and tardi-
ness does not derive its validity from the
school board or the legislature, but from
the nature of teaching. '-Tompkins
Regular and punctual attendance is the
most important of all problems of school
management.
When absence or hardness is justifable.
UneXcusable hardness or absence is
the result of the pupils carelessness or
wickedness, of the parents ignorance or
folly, or of the weakness of the school.
Means for Securing Regular and Pune
tual Attendance:
Teach by precept and example both pu-
pills and parents how important is atten-
ton to all the work of the school.
Locate responsibility in each case.
Prevent, by firm treatment, pupils from
forming habit of irregularity of attend
ance.
Put not your trust in punishment or in
bribery, however mild its type.
Vitalize and enrich the work of the
school, that the pupil may gain abiding
interest in that work. The problem of
attendance is closely related to every
other problem of the school.
The following is an outline of one of a
series of lectures on the summer normal
work:
Management of Summer NormaIs.
Aims:
To arouse professional pride and enthu-
siasm
To point to greater heights in academic
and professional attachments and mark
the way.
To counterfeit the depressing influence
of the examination at the close and have
genuine teaching done.
To excmpify "the most advanced re-
suits of pedagogical study and expert
ence."-E. e. White.
ut is clear that the purpose of the in
stitutes is distinctly pedagogical."-John
r. Kirk.
"One man with a belief is worth ninety
nine with an opinion"
"The whole instruction in the institute
should have unity if it would have
strength. There should be running through
its work the Influence of one strong, clear,
discriminating mind, guiding and direct
ing every exercise to one end, and that
end should be to increase and strengthen
the teaching power of the teachers. -
Sabin.
The model school in the priamry depart
ment of the normal school should be en-
phasized. Why should not the work of
the higher grades be exemplified like
wise?
The following is an outline of one of
| the. lectures on geography:
Home Geography.
Home geography is one form of organi-
| cation for the child's experience.
Every neighborhood is an epitome of
| the world.
The child is to reduce his experience to
the outlines of geography
| Life is the core of home geography.
Home geography includes industries
| and institutions.
The Interpretation of representations
goes parallel.
The story forms an appropriate vehicle.
The result is to be set of type-images.
Home geography is the natural center
of the school subjects.
The following is an outline of one of
| the lectures on compositions
Lecture VII.
Cearness, as the term implies, requires
such construction of the sentence as to
prevent Obscurity of meaning. How pro-
NOTED.
Strength requires sentences to be SO
| constructed that the thought shall be
presented forcibly. This is termed unity.
How promoted.
In every sentence each part should be
! subservient to one principal assertion.
This is termed unity. How attained.
The following is the outline of one of
series OF lectures on physics:
Homemade Apparatus.
The school should, if possible, have a
| sunnly of apparatus of the best make.
The kind of apparatus needed for the
class room.
The teacher and pupils can do much
to supplement the supply.
Thespupils, by the manufacture of ap-
paratus, are brought into close contact
with the principle according to which the
apparatus acts.
What the teacher and pupils can make
and how they can make it: Model pumps
barometers, apparatus for Boyles' law,
magnets, electromagnetic, galvanometers,
microscopes, dynamos, motors, ETC.
The following is the outline of one of
the lectures on primary methods.
beginning Steps in Reading.
Motive for child's reading.
Teacher prone to underestimate child's
previous preparation.
DO. we overestimate the technique of
learning to read?
Oral and silent reading.
Essentials in reading exactly the same
as those of speech.
Mental law by which every word-form
is learned.
Repetition without drill
Chlld's intensity of thought or interest
carries him over seeming mechanical diff
cuties.
Great need of teacher is being a good