Measure Your Mind: The Mentimeter and How to Use ItTrabue, Marion Rex
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Measure Your Mind: The Mentimeter and How to Use It
Trabue, Marion Rex
Educational tests and measurements; Intelligence tests; Psychological tests
The next important step was to devise a curriculum for the class, which
became known as the Terman Class, because the tests used in selecting it
had been suggested by Doctor Terman. The grades that represented the
first term were 4B through 6B; the second term 6A through 7B; and the
third term, 7A through 8B. Formal grammar and arithmetic were assigned
sequentially as outlined in the city syllabus. The class in general
studied contemporary history, based upon the World War, from newspapers
and periodicals, and, whenever possible, these events were related to or
associated with past history. Geography was studied in relation to
history and then extended until the world geography as outlined in the
course of study was acquired.
An extended amount of reading was assigned. The supplementary lists
issued by Professors Baker and Abbott, of Teachers College, Columbia
University; the reading list of the Ethical Culture School; and the list
issued by Doctor Leland, Director of Libraries, were used as guides.
Music, drawing, and physical training were taken by the class as general
exercises. These covered the grade requirements. The composition of
plays, songs, and dances for special programmes also was undertaken. The
privilege of observing plants and live animals, their care, habits, and
manner of reproduction, was provided in the nature-study room of the
school. Some of the boys were given manual training in the shops of the
prevocational school after the regular session of the academic
department. The class attended the senior assemblies of the school at
least once a week and as many more times as the educational activities
of the school permitted. The privileges enjoyed outside the classroom
educated these children socially in ways that few pupils of large and
congested schools may experience.
One period a week was spent in the reading and study of assigned
subjects in the Tompkins Square Public Library. Children were made
acquainted with all departments of the library and its facilities.
Reference books, magazines, and newspapers were at their service. The
children were permitted to use a club room in the Christodora House once
a week for musical and social exercises. A gymnasium was at their
disposal in this institution two periods a week, and one of the
Christodora House’s workers was assigned to teach the cooking club of
the class. Another social worker taught a quartette of the class how to
play the violin. Two boys who showed aptitude in art were given
additional instruction after school at the “Boys’ Club,” a neighbouring
institution. The class was taken on excursions to the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, the Jumel Mansion, and
Dyckman House—to study colonial furnishings and historical material—the
Museum of Natural History, a sight-seeing yacht trip around Manhattan
Island, theatre parties, campfire parties, and flower shows.
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