Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural SchoolsOntario. Department of Education
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Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools
Ontario. Department of Education
Cooking -- Study and teaching -- Ontario; Home economics -- Study and teaching -- Ontario
After being thoroughly explained, these directions are placed in a
note-book, for the guidance of the pupil in her home practice. In some
cases, the directions are placed on properly punched cards, so that at
the end of the year every pupil will have a collection of useful recipes
and plans, each one of which she understands and has worked out. In many
lessons of this type demonstrations may be given by the teacher and, if
the food cannot be cooked on the school stove, it may be taken home to
be cooked by one of the pupils.
Lessons given according to this method, by which the theory is given in
school and the practice acquired at home, need not be restricted to
cookery. Any of the lessons prescribed in the curriculum for Form III,
Junior, may be treated in the same way. Lessons on the daily care of a
bed-room, weekly sweeping, care and cleaning of metals, washing dishes,
washing clothes, ironing a blouse and, in fact, on all subjects
pertaining to the general care and management of the home, may be given
in this way.
Each lesson should conclude with a carefully prepared black-board
summary, which should be neatly copied into the note-books, to be
periodically examined by the teacher. The black-board work of many
teachers leaves much to be desired, and time spent in improving this
will be well repaid. Examples of summaries of the kind referred to are
to be found in the Ontario Teachers' Manual on _Household Management_.
These instructions may be type-written or hectographed by the teacher
and given to the pupils, thus saving the time spent in note-taking.
SECOND METHOD
The second of the plans referred to is a modification of what is known
as the "Crete" plan of Household Science, so called from the name of the
place in Nebraska, U.S.A., where it was first put into operation. By
this plan, definite instruction is given in the home kitchens of certain
women in the district, under the supervision of the educational
authorities. It was adopted, at first, in connection with the high
schools of the small towns in that State but, with certain
modifications, it is suitable to our rural school conditions.
In every community there are women who are known to be skilful in
certain lines of cookery, and the plan makes use of such women for
giving the required instruction. They become actually a part of the
staff of the school, giving instruction in Household Science, and using
the resources of their households as an integral part of the school
equipment.
In order to put this plan into operation, a meeting of women interested
in the school should be called and if, after the plan has been laid
before them and fully discussed, enough women are willing to open their
homes and act as instructors, then it is safe to proceed. The subjects
should be divided, and a scheme somewhat as follows may be arranged:
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