The training of teachers in the United States of America
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To meet these special requirements the following courses have been
arranged:--
_First Course_:
1. Practical: the arts of teaching and governing; methods of
instruction and general school-room practice; school hygiene: school
law. Recitations and lectures.
3. History of education: ancient and mediæval. Recitations and
lectures. Text-book: Compayré’s History of Pedagogy.
5. School supervision; embracing general school management, the art
of grading and arranging courses of study, the conduct of institutes,
etc. Recitations and lectures. Text-book; Payne’s chapters on School
Supervision.
_Second Course_:
2. Theoretical and critical; the principles underlying the arts of
teaching and governing. Lectures.
4. History of education; modern. Recitations and lectures. Text-book;
Compayré’s History of Pedagogy.
6. The comparative study of educational systems, domestic and
foreign. Lectures.
7. Seminary. Study and discussion of special topics in the History
and Philosophy of Education.
Special Teachers’ Courses are also arranged for in most subjects, and
attendance at one at least of these is necessary in order to obtain
the Teacher’s diploma.
The University of Illinois has a course in Pedagogy which may count
towards a degree. It may count towards most of the degrees granted, but
for the degree in philosophy and pedagogy, and which implies a four
years’ course, the arrangement is as follows:--
The first and second years of this course may be those of any course in
the College of Literature.
THIRD YEAR.
1. Psychology; Chemistry or History; Latin, German or French.
2. Logic; Zoology, or History, Latin, German, or French.
3. Philosophy of Education; Geology, or History; Latin, German or
French.
FOURTH YEAR.
1. History of Education; Educational Psychology; History of
Civilization; English (half course); Elocution.
2. School hygiene; Constitutional History (England); English, (half
course); Elocution.
3. School Supervision; Pedagogical Seminary; Political Economy, or
Constitutional History (U.S.); English, (half course); Elocution.
The University of Indiana possesses a department of pedagogics the
courses of which count towards a degree. There are three courses.
I.
(_a_) Educational Psychology (a knowledge of Psychology being
presupposed).
(_b_) The School as an Institution.
(_c_) The General History of Education.
II.
(_a_) The Science of Education.
(_b_) Didactics.
(_c_) City School Systems.
(_d_) School Supervision.
III.
(_a_) Contemporary Education.
(_b_) School System of Indiana.
(_c_) Philosophy of Education.
Special Teachers’ Courses in certain subjects are also given.