Annual catalogue of the Indiana Normal School of Pennsylvania . DeGarmos Essentials ofMethod/ a little work that admirably sums up the detailed discussions given inThe Method of the Recitation. Supplementary Work.—The class is recjuircd to read one or two pedagogicalworks from the library, the books read depending upon what the instructordeems the most essential need of the class. The works read are carefullv com-pared with the regular texts, noting likeness and difference in treatment. Anattempt is made to discover upon what, if any. fundamental principles the booksread are based. History of


Annual catalogue of the Indiana Normal School of Pennsylvania . DeGarmos Essentials ofMethod/ a little work that admirably sums up the detailed discussions given inThe Method of the Recitation. Supplementary Work.—The class is recjuircd to read one or two pedagogicalworks from the library, the books read depending upon what the instructordeems the most essential need of the class. The works read are carefullv com-pared with the regular texts, noting likeness and difference in treatment. Anattempt is made to discover upon what, if any. fundamental principles the booksread are based. History of Education.—This course aims to give students a clear view ofthe general trend and progress of education ; to help them to reason from eftectsto causes; to aid them in finding significant principles in great educational svs-tems; to make some acquaintance with great educational reformers, and to ap-preciate in some measure the forces that are operative in our own educational era. Text: Painters Ilistorv of Education. PC NN SYLVAN I, A^P STATE FORMAL SCHOOL. Practice Teaching.—The work of practice teaching is recognized as funda-mental in all normal schools. Opportmiity is here afforded for the normal stu-dents to manifest their aptitude to teach and to put into practice the principlesand methods of instruction they have been taught. The work in this departmentat Indiana is divided into two sections—a class in observation and a class inactual practice teaching. The class in observation is given opportunity to observe teaching done h\competent teachers and each student is expected to reproduce the plan of thelesson observed and be prepared to take his part in the discussion which means of observation and discussion a student becomes thoroughly in sym-pathy with actual working methods before he is permitted to give instructionhimself. During the Senior year, students are expected to devote an hour eachday for two terms to practice teaching. These two terms of tea


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