12. What is the scope and aim of each of the courses Of history you have observed? XII. _The History Teacher's Preparation and Equipment._ 1. Has the teacher the kind of personality you could wish for yourself? 2. Is her voice melodious and pleasing? 3. Has she winsome manners? 4. Is she sympathetic with her students? 5. Does she show distinctive qualities of leadership? 6. Has she evidently had a good general training in literature, sociology, philosophy, biology, and psychology? 7. Has she evidently had extensive and special training in history and political science? 8. Has she had professional training in educational psychology, history of education, methods, and general administration of school work? 9. Is she tied to the textbook? 10. Does she have a fund of explanatory and illustrative material at her command? 11. Is she accurate, positive, and confident? 12. Has she a sense of humor and of the fitness of things? Has she self-control, or does she, for example, use sarcasm and ridicule? 13. Has she clearly prepared herself anew for the lesson in hand? What evidences have you of this? 14. Does she inspire her pupils? How? 15. Is there good discipline? If so, how is it secured? 16. Does the teacher seem to be familiar with local history, local geography, and both local and general industrial, political, and social conditions? 17. Does she seem to be familiar with the local library and its equipment? 18. Does she know her pupils--their interests, home life, and ambitions? 19. Does she possess enthusiasm, energy, optimism, sympathy, imagination, force, incisiveness, tact, judgment, geniality, social graces, courtesy, and kindliness? 20. Does she grasp the subject in its unity and entirety? 21. Can she tell a tale simply and pleasingly? 22. Is she interested in current events? 23. Does she possess a clear insight into character and life? 24. Has she traveled? XIII. _The Pupil's Preparation and Equipment._ 1. Have the pupils evidently had a good elementary school training? 2. Do the pupils give evidence of having had previous historical training in the high school? What is the basis of your conclusion? 3. Have the pupils thoroughly prepared for the day's recitation? 4. Have they apparently confined themselves to the text, or have they gone outside this for material? 5. Have they "studied the lesson together"? Do you approve of such study? 6. If pupils show they have not sought to prepare the lesson well, what procedure does the teacher follow? Do you approve? 7. Have the pupils "outlined the lesson"? Is it well that they should do so? 8. Apparently, have the pupils been shown _how_ to study, i.e., how to prepare the work most advantageously? What was the mode of doing this? 9. Have the pupils attacked the lesson because it was made to appear vital to the solution of some really interesting problem? 10. Have the pupils really gotten behind the facts to the spirit of the movement?