The Sabbath-School Index: Pointing out the history and progress of Sunday-schools, with approved modes of instruction.Pardee, R. G. (Richard Gay)
Religion
The Sabbath-School Index: Pointing out the history and progress of Sunday-schools, with approved modes of instruction.
Pardee, R. G. (Richard Gay)
Sunday schools
Another mode of conducting an infant-school is to place the children
in little classes, of six scholars, with a teacher for each, and
proceed with singing, repeating commandments, singing, recitation for
ten minutes, study of emblems, a ten-minute address, and prayers,
having a verse or two of singing between every exercise, and no
exercise longer than ten minutes. Thus an excellent system of
infant-class instruction proceeds, while the lady who has charge gives
the address and superintends the teachers, etc., for the hour devoted
to the school.
Another way is to take the two central verses of the regular lesson
for the whole school and bring it out on the blackboard, and question,
instruct, and pray and sing about the same thought of God in the
lesson; as, "Who formed you, child, and made you live?" _Ans._ "God
did my life and spirit give," etc., with singing and prayer.
Another infant-class teacher has a different plan, as follows: She has
arranged with a gentleman, who teaches a large class of young ladies
of sixteen to twenty years of age, to come in with his class and
conduct the opening exercises of the infant-school. He then goes into
another room and instructs his class for thirty minutes, and the lady
instructs the children for the same time. Then the Bible-class, with
their teacher, return, and the infant-school is divided into classes,
in which the young ladies teach the same lesson which they have just
received from their teacher. In this way practice in teaching, and
variety are gained, and the lady teacher in the infant-school is
relieved of a part of her burden.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account