The Survey, Volume 30, Number 5, May 3, 1913Various
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The Survey, Volume 30, Number 5, May 3, 1913
Various
Charities -- Periodicals; Social problems -- Periodicals; United States -- Social conditions -- Periodicals
Between the home and the school the visiting teacher vibrates, carrying
to the former the school’s picture of the child and returning to the
school to reinforce that impression or to shed new light upon the
problem. There is no fixed number of times that she is expected to
travel this path, as there is no fixed hour of the day for her visits.
The urgency and complexity of a situation alone determine her movements.
Nor is there any regular routine of action that she follows. Whatever in
her judgment seems imperative, she endeavors to effect, using to this
end everything the ingenuity of man has devised to make smooth the rough
places of life.
It is a focussing of interests that she demands. The child is the
pivotal point on which she hopes to bring all her knowledge and
experience to bear. Sometimes it is the expert teacher’s training that
she invokes; sometimes the psychologist or the physician, general or
special, that she consults; or again it is the social worker to whom she
appeals. Before these she lays the facts, the reasons why her services
have been sought and from them she asks co-operation. To the adult, she
is the visiting teacher; to the child, she is simply the “lady cop.”
The results achieved do not always show a complete cure. In some cases
there has been a marked improvement in scholarship, conduct or
attendance,—at least a good start in the right direction has been made.
In other cases the child has been transferred to a different class,
regular, special or ungraded, or to a trade school, where his chances at
succeeding in making a place for himself are increased. Again, the
information the visiting teacher shares with the regular teacher has
resulted in a change of attitude toward the child, in an expansion or
contraction of the course of study, or in her giving the child extra
instruction in study periods or out of school hours. Finally, he has
been helped to promotion, even to graduation.
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