The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-07-23

teaching of oral and written English is q
very important part of the work of the pub
lie schools The teaching of formal grammar
| has but little effect upon a child's ability to
| use English. This test indicates that much
more attention should be given to teaching the
use OF oral and written English, rather than
70 the teaching of definitions and formal
grammar.
In Writing Mount Holly's pupils have made
good showing in regard to speed. Their
record is uniformly above the standard in
TINS respect. In quality of writing, however,
the record Is below the standard but a good
showing has been made. This is especially
hotceapie IN the fifth grade which ranks near
est the standard. Since some pupils will leave
school at the end of the fifth grade il is well
tnat all have been taught to write fairly well
by the time they finish the fifth grade The
important point here for the Supervisor ana
teachers is the fact that both speed and anal
ity should be emphasized in the work in
Spelling shows that in the Ayres' Test the
system ranks slightly below the standard, but
mat 1t ranks high with the IA other systems
with which Mount Holly is compared On Tho
whole measured by the Ayres' Scale the show
ing Is good. By the Buckingham scale Mount
Holly is much below the standard The SUI
that the buckingham scale deals with words
tnat are constantly used in the daily life of
children. Mount Holly system scored low on
ms scale very likely because of the fact that
the majority OF words taught in the different
grades in the Mount Holly schools are diff
cult words perhaps beyond the use Of the pupils
VI the respective grades.
The results of the Reading test give Mount
Holly fair showing. The rank is above the
lhorndlke Tentative Standard, but below the
standard of the IS cities with which Mount
molly rs compared. This test shows in the
main that too great differences appear he
tween classes within the grades also that
mere Is too large step between certain |
grades. A careful emphasis placed upon valu-
able methods of teaching Reading will over |
come this difficulty
The tests in Arithmetic show that Mount
Holly schools rank uniformly below the stand
ards IN the fundamental Operations Snaad
and accurancy are both factors in this test /
since IN the main more time is spent in Arith
metic IN Mount Holly schools than should he
spent, the natural thing to infer from tba low
scoring is that method of teaching the fund.
nentafs which calls for keen interest and ~
IGNITION on the part of both teacher and punils
1as not been sufficiently followed. In the
'easonlng tests in Arithmetic the system ranks
vel IN comparison with the other cities where
ne tests have been given This again meas
ires general ability the part of the children.
,hd INDICATES that in respect to general ability |
ne chlidren OF Mount Holly rank we'll
hnese tests, therefore, present certain re- |
ults OF pupil progress which indicates ten
lencies IN teaching and supervision. These re- |
ults are valuable as by which COM
'a 9 may be made with results accomplish
q IN other systems. If these results are used
y supervisor and teachers as teaching and
upervising problems they will serve a good
lnued study in order that the ACCOMPLISHMENTS
i pupils in Mount Holy may be comnared
ollow S WIZ