The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-07-13
UNIFORM QUERIES
FOR EXAMINATION
issued By the State School
Commission
HOW MANY CAN YOU ANSWER7 7
Sample Advance Questions In Sub.
iects Upon Which Applicants For
Teachers Certificates Must
Be Able to Pass Cred
table Examinations.
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Columbus.-We print herewith a
= number of sample examination ques.
tons on various subjects used in coun-
ty teachers examinations for element
airy school certificate, prepared under
the direction of the state school COM
missioner and sent out from his Office
in accordance with Section 1919 of the
general code.
Reading.
Name two or more good systems of
teaching reading to beginners. Which
do you use?
What can you tell about the proposed
constitutional convention? What are
some Of the reasons for holding it?
Why are these men SO prominent in the
news Of the day: Woodrow Wilson? La
Toilette? Ella Wheeler Wilcox? Judson
Harmon? Madero? The present Chief
Justice OF the U. S. Supreme Court?
What is the earliest historical event
that occurred in your. country of which
arss oI aVe ye1t apfnentic m Ibn istn t0rmaon dne
Give your plans for overcoming the
fault OF mere word calling by pupil in
his oral reading.
When was your county settled? By
whom? What is its area? Its population?
What are its leading productions?
Theory and Practice.
What do you mean by "drin"? What
conditions are necessary to profitable
. drill?
Do you teach your pupils how to study ?
When do you do this? How? What are
the chief requisites on the part of pupils
in learning how to study?
What can you say of imitation as an
incentive to learning? What can you
say OF emulation as a motive for good
work during the study hours?
Give some reasons for lack of interest.
How would you remedy lack of interest
under these reasons for it?
}. Have you any plan or plans for work
in Agriculture in your school for next
year? Outline some of the plans you can
How do you ventilate your school room
How should teacher spend the recess
period?
Name some fundamental qualities that
every good teacher should possess. Dis
cuss one Of these.
What do you understand by the Science
of Teaching? By the Art of Teaching?
Describe an ideal rural or village school
with reference to buildings and grounds,
furniture, library, apparatus, pupils and
patrons.
deyOlve upon township superintendent;
upon a village superintendent.
Name some of the great educational
men of America. Write about one of them
ut some length.
Discuss school amusements and their
relation to study and good discipline.
outline q course in general exercises
and rhetoricals for the grammar grades
that would cover a term or half-year' s
work. What classics would you include
in this course? What would be some of
our aims in using these classics?
Physiology.
Name the respiratory organs. Describe
the process of respiration in full.
How are voluntary and involuntary
muscles distinguished? What are some
of the uses of each?
What is bile? What are it's functions?
What is biliOuSneSS?
Describe the ear; give it's functions;
how preserve it's good health2
Classify the joints; what will you do
with dislocation? What are some OF
the essentials to good joint action?
Describe the proper method OF breath
;, ing Give reasons for this method.
Define secretion. Name five secretions
of the body and tell where each is Sc
GREETED. What are the uses of these Sc
cretions? How may the healthy uses OF
these be hurt?
Describe the composition OF the blood.
How preserve it's healthy functions?
Of what does the sympathetic system
consist? Give it's uses.
What are the purposes of the circula-
ton of the blood? OF respiration?
What are the papilla and what is their
use?
What rules or directions for exercises
do you make use of in your teaching!
Give some of the results of your work
along these lines.
U. S. History Including Civil Government.
What event of the last decade of our
history is of greatest Importance in your
estimation? Why SO? Tell of the event
fully.
mise of 1850? Give its provisions and
some of the results of 1T.
Name three state offices and give the
duties of the incumbent of each one.
What were the important events of JEFF
ferson's administration? Describe very
noted event of this administration.
Write a strong paragraph on one OF the hie
%npcs following whitman 19RiGs line indians IN the
War of 1872" "Morgan,s Raid" or The
French in the Ohio and Mississippi Val
leys."
ton. What were the chief results OF IT:
Outline a campaign of the revolution
airy War as you would have a class STUDY
it. Name the men concerned IN II; de-
scribe one event in full.
What We're the relations between the
fall of Constantinople and the discovery
of America? When and how did Russia
influence American history?
What men were most conspicuous in
shaping affairs in the United states M
the two decades following the Civil war;
What events prove your cholce OF men
Write about one Of these events
Who was Napoleon? Citizen Genet!
Charles l? William Pitt? State briefly
how each of these men have affected OF
influenced American history. 49,, rooon,
Especial session of our National Congress
! Give the duties, terms and salary OF a
rhember of the Supreme Court. or con-
gtesSman.
. I'm what ways have English laws and
customs affected our laws and govern
mept?
and tell what were the issues that were
involved. 20 :,
Write briefly of the government OF q
township -,
Define eminent domain; patent; copy
right bill of attainder; party government:
What limits the powers OF congress
What authority is the final Interpreter OF
the acts of congress2
Mention all the sources OF state rev
enue Name the items OF expenditure;
Describe the different ways in which q
bill may become a law.
Discuss briefly two important bills
passed at the last session of our Genera
Assembly