KINDERGARTEN LICENSE, JUNE, 1913. 328. (a) State the principles underlying the making of the kindergarten program. (6) (b) Illustrate the proper application of these principles. Suggest two programs. (6) 329. (a) State the object or objects of opening exercises in the kindergarten. (4) (b) Describe two types of opening exercises. (6) 330. (a) Explain the Mother Play of Grass Mowing. (6) (b) Describe the giving of an exercise on Grass Mowing in the kindergarten. (6) 331. (a) Describe the fourth gift. (8) (b) Describe a good method of presenting it. (4) (c) Illustrate with an exercise. (2) 332. (a) Mention, giving reasons in full, a game that should not be used in a kindergarten. (4) (b) Mention a game that would not be open to the same objections and would have the advantages or uses of the game objected to. (2) 333. State three reasons why the visits in homes of kindergarten children are valuable. (6) KINDERGARTEN LICENSE, MAY, 1910. 334. Mention three good and three bad color combinations. In what kindergarten activities may good judgment as to colors be developed in children? Describe the means or methods. (8) 335. Mention two common faults which a teacher is apt to run into in making a program for a kindergarten session. What considerations should govern in the arrangement of the program? Give a good typical program for an autumn morning. (8) 336. Describe how drawing should be taught to kindergarten children (how to begin, mediums to be used, kinds of subjects, motivation). Illustrate by not fewer than three drawings the progression in subjects and in school. (8) 337. Mention five classes of kindergarten stories and name two stories in each class. For each of three different types of stories cited, name a kindergarten activity in connection with which the story may properly be used. (8) 338. Describe and sketch, in order of progressive difficulty, four patterns for mat-weaving. Describe a lesson in making a simple basket. Use drawings. (6) 339. What are the marks or tests of a good morning talk? Describe or characterize the most successful morning talk you have heard given, and point out the merits of it, taking into consideration the entire work of the day. (6) 340. Describe a game which cultivates judgment in estimating direction and distance; one which cultivates rapidity in dealing with numbers; one which inculcates love of animals. (6) 341. In what ways should a kindergarten seek to prevent the appearance or spread of contagious disease among the children? (4) 342. What means of keeping order has a kindergarten at command? Illustrate the use of two of these means in dealing with a troublesome child. (6) Assistant to Principal and Head of Department 343. The phonic method of teaching beginners to read places at the service of the child, before he knows how to use it, an instrument which, under the conditions, will defeat the very purpose for which reading is taught. If a child is made to believe that pronouncing words is reading, he is being deceived. 344. 1. What is the "purpose for which reading is taught?" (2) 2. Discuss the justice of the above criticism on the phonic method and set forth, with reasons, what you regard as sound views of the place and time of phonic work in primary reading. (8) 345. What are the English nasal consonant sounds? (1) Tell accurately how each is produced by the vocal organs. Describe methods or devices for teaching pupils the correct productions of each of these sounds. (9) 346. Criticize, with reasons, the following method of dealing with a selection from literature. (10) "In the first place, the meaning of the selection in its entirety should be discussed. (It would be well to require the learner to write an abstract of the selection.) Secondly, the selection should be considered in its partsthe characters represented, the historical details, etc. But the child's interest in the writer should grow out of his admiration for the writing. In the third place the selection should be analyzed from a rhetorical and grammatical point of view. (Such complete analysis of a piece of literature should be followed by a reconstructive act. The selection should now be reread in its entirety.) A careful paraphrase may now be required and compared with the earlier one." 347. Show how the Missouri Compromise might be presented to a class as involving a problem, and how it would be presented if treated merely as narrative. (6) Set forth the merits of these two methods of dealing with such a topic. (6) 348. Tell how to make clear to pupils the following and give drawings employed: (a) isotherms; (b) winter solstice. (10) 349. 1. Illustrate from elementary geometry what is meant by logical definition. (4) (2) Illustrate from elementary science or geography what is meant by logical division. (4) 350. Illustrate proper gradation of examples in developing the following topics in arithmetic, and point out the reasons for your progressions. 1. Subtraction of integers. 2. Division of one decimal fraction or mixed number by another. (12) 351. 1. State fully or precisely the rule for reducing a common fraction to a decimal. (2) 2. Upon what fact does this rule depend? (2) 3. Demonstrate the fact in question by means of a diagram dealing with the fraction 4/5. (6) 352. State with reasons what is the proper way of teaching a class to sing accurately flat 6 occurring in an exercise in music. (6) ASSISTANT TO PRINCIPAL 71 353. There are places where telling is good teaching. Expound this by giving underlying principles, and illustrate it from grammar and geography. (12) ASSISTANT TO PRINCIPAL, SEPTEMBER, 1910. METHODS I. 354. Give the rule or formula for finding the area of a circle. Give and explain objective illustration that would make the rule comprehensible to pupils. (6) 355. Give two meanings of the expression, 34. Show graphically their equivalency. (6) 356. Show in the form of enumerated steps the process of teaching the division of a decimal by a decimal. State fully and precisely the rule for the process. (12) 35%. Invent and solve a problem in each of the following subjects using a model form of a computation suitable for an 8B class. 1. Longitude and time. 2. Mensuration of rectangle. Point out the particular merits in your form of computation. 358. However, I have no good word to say for the old fashioned memoriter method, and cheerfully grant that the facts are only a means to an end.-B. A. Hinsdale. 1. In the work of a class in history in the sixth year, what is the proper place or use of the learning of facts? (4) |