Adequate Preparation for the Teacher of Biological Sciences in Secondary SchoolsMcDonald, J. Daley (James Daley)
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Adequate Preparation for the Teacher of Biological Sciences in Secondary Schools
McDonald, J. Daley (James Daley)
Teachers -- Training of
Group I
Comparative Anatomy.
Cytology -- basic principles must be understood by the teacher
but he should not have to spend one whole half year
to acquire them.
Embryology -- the above is also true for this course.
Group II.
Biology of Water Supplies -- this course is primarily for
sanitary engineers.
Protozoology -- All that is necessary of this could be
incorporated in a general course.
Parasitology -- essential for health instruction and for
illustration of certain biological principles.
Group III.
Experimental Zoology } combination of these valuable.
Animal Behavior }
Heredity, Evolution, and Eugenics -- this course is very essential
for _any_ teacher.
(Required in the fifth year, the Teachers' Course, some work in
research, and practice teaching.)
Taken as a whole, the chief criticism to be made is that the subject
has been so subdivided to insure no overlapping of courses, that it
becomes necessary to take every course in order to obtain a well
rounded preparation in the field. This requires more time than any
individual can devote to it, for he must also have preparation in
Botany, Physiology, and Bacteriology and Hygiene, and in these
departments the arrangement of courses is essentially the same. The
general course in Zoology is inadequate, for it is planned for an
introduction to the more advanced courses and is careful not to steal
too much from their fund of interesting information. The aim is to lay
a thorough foundation rather than to discuss the more interesting
facts and general principles of biology, though I am glad to believe
that the present trend is decidedly in this latter direction.
Here we find adequate preparation for a teacher of _Zoology_, but in
no secondary school of the state will a teacher be employed for
Zoology alone. In high schools the biological science curriculum the
first course must be _Biology_, and it must be all-inclusive, for it
is all of the biological science that the majority of the pupils will
take. It would be a great step in advance if every school _required_
even that much for graduation.
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