Methods of Teaching Industrial Subjects: A Companion Volume to Administration of Vocational Education and Organization of Vocational Guidance

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McGraw-Hill book Company, Incorporated, 1926 - 293 pages
This book brings together the fundamentals of the techniques of teaching and to indicate their use in teaching of industrial subjects.
 

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Page 27 - That in order to receive the benefits of the appropriation for the salaries of teachers of trade, home economics and industrial subjects...
Page 55 - profession" as "that of which one professes knowledge ; the occupation if not purely commercial, mechanical, agricultural, or the like to which one devotes oneself; a calling in which one professes to have acquired some special knowledge used by way either of instructing, guiding or advising others or of serving them in some art; calling; vocation; employment; as, the profession of arms; the profession of chemist.
Page 30 - ... that the teachers of any trade or industrial subject in any State shall have at least the minimum qualifications for teachers of such subject determined upon for such State by the State Board, with the approval of the Federal Board for Vocational Education...
Page 25 - ... given only to persons who have had adequate vocational experience or contact in the line of work for which they are preparing themselves as teachers, supervisors, or directors, or who are acquiring such experience or contaci as a part of their training...
Page 201 - State ; that such schools or classes giving instruction to persons who have not entered upon employment shall require that at least half of the time of such instruction be given to practical work on a useful or productive basis...
Page 14 - Special trades are not taught, nor are articles made for sale. The scope of a single trade is too narrow for educational purposes. Manual education should be as broad and liberal as intellectual. A shop which manufactures for the market, and expects a revenue from the sale of its wares, is necessarily confined to saleable work, and a systematic and progressive series of lessons is practically impossible.
Page 14 - One great object of the school is to foster a higher appreciation of the value and dignity of intelligent labor, and the worth and respectability of laboring men.
Page 30 - That In order to receive the benefits of such appropriation for the salaries of teachers, supervisors, or directors of agricultural subjects the State board of any State shall provide In its plan for agricultural education that...
Page 14 - ... purposes. Manual education should be as broad and liberal as intellectual. A shop which manufactures for the market, and expects a revenue from the sale of its products, is necessarily confined to salable work ; and a systematic and progressive series of lessons is impossible, except at great cost. If the object of the shop is education, a student should be allowed to discontinue any task or process the moment he has learned to do it well. If the shop were intended to make money, the students...
Page 14 - The tool instruction, as at present contemplated, shall include carpentry, wood-turning, pattern-making, iron chipping and filing, forge work, brazing and soldering, the use of machine-shop tools, and such other instruction of a similar character as may be deemed advisable to add to the foregoing from time to time.

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