The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training . L CHILDREN may choose. After a very brief moment of this relaxation theyare given the command, Position! and immediately resumethe new (good) attitude. This is repeated three or four times in quick succession, the teacherinspecting the lines each timeand assisting those pupils intoposition who have not yetacquired the full sense, orpower, to assume it inde-pendently. This little pos-ture drill on losing and takingthe good position should begiven as a systematic featureof every lesson, at its
The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training . L CHILDREN may choose. After a very brief moment of this relaxation theyare given the command, Position! and immediately resumethe new (good) attitude. This is repeated three or four times in quick succession, the teacherinspecting the lines each timeand assisting those pupils intoposition who have not yetacquired the full sense, orpower, to assume it inde-pendently. This little pos-ture drill on losing and takingthe good position should begiven as a systematic featureof every lesson, at its be-ginning and between exercises,when pupils are seen to belosing correct form in theexecution of movements. This posture drill, by theuse of the principle of con-trast, trains the muscularsense and brings control,whereby it enhances the corrective element in gymnasticlessons. It unquestionably serves another very useful purposeby giving a few moments relaxation to pupils whose goodstanding position is still so far from natural that considerablemuscular effort is required to assume or maintain Fig. 84. — Getting a child to relax the dis-tended ribs of the over-corrected position.
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