A Guide to Methods and Observation in History: Studies in High School ObservationDavis, Calvin Olin
History
A Guide to Methods and Observation in History: Studies in High School Observation
Davis, Calvin Olin
History -- Study and teaching
27. Anticipate for the pupils what is to come, i.e., stimulate interest
by giving a bird's-eye view of the movement before it is analyzed.
28. Emphasize the operation of cause and effect--what a nation or a
people sows, so it also reaps.
29. Avoid rote memorizing.
30. Employ recapitulation, summary, and review frequently.
31. Always have a lesson plan.
32. Have "everybody into the game."
33. Shape the work so that it presents the appearance of a real, vital,
personal problem.
34. Appear to be a learner with the pupils.
35. Make much use of blackboards and concrete material.
36. Emphasize the value of written work, outlines, map study, and
personal reactions.
37. Illustrate, expound, vivify.
38. Keep pupils looking for resemblances.
39. Teach with reference to applications.
40. Show pupils how to study history.
41. Keep in touch with current events and devote some time each week to
such events.
42. Have frequent written work, as,
(_a_) Condensation of a few pages of notable historical works.
(_b_) Abstracts of accounts of definite events.
(_c_) Tests, examinations, written lessons.
(_d_) Notebooks.
(_e_) Outline maps.
43. Occasionally read selections of historical material before the
class.
BIBLIOGRAPHY ON METHODS
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Burstall, Sara A. _Impressions of American Education._ (Chap. on
Method. Edition of 1908.)
Bernheim, E. _Lehrbuch der Historischen Methode._
Committee of Ten. _Report_, pp. 162-203.
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Freeman, E. A. _Methods of Historical Study._
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Maitland, et al. _Essays on the Teaching of History._
Robinson, J. H. _The New History_; also, _Introduction to the History
of Western Europe._
Seignobos, Charles. _La Methode Historique Applique._
PERIODICAL ARTICLES ON METHODS
Barrows, A. C. _Teaching History._ Ed. 29:140.
Below, G. _Die neue historische Methode._ In Historische Zeitschrift,
N. T. V. 45, pp. 193-273.
Cheyney, E. P. _What is History?_ History Teachers' Magazine, Dec.,
1910, p. 75 ff.
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Davison, Ellen S. _History in German Secondary Schools._ Ed. Rev.
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Hall, G. S. _The Pedagogy of History._ Ped. Sem. 12:339.
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