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Show 30 WEBER NORMAL COLLEGE EDUCATION Professor N. Henry Savage Educational PsychologyThis course serves as a basis for the study of educational practices and problems from the psychological point of view. Topics will be selected with special reference to the needs of teachers. Experiments performed by the students furnish illustrative material and give an introduction to experimental method in education. Fall quarter. Three hours' credit. Review of the Common BranchesThis course undertakes to show how the common-school curriculum may be used most successfully in realizing the great aims of education. It considers the specific functions of each branch; the best means of realizing these functions, both from the standpoint of the selection of subject-matter and the guidance of the learning process. The course calls for much practical work with the subjects themselves; analysis, the planning of lessons of various types, and actual demonstrations. Text: How to teach the Fundamental Subjects, Kendall and Merrick. References: Teaching of the Common Branches, Charters, Psychology of the Common Branches, Freeman, etc., Fall and Winter quarter. Six hours' credit. History of EducationThe purpose of this course is to give the teacher in the elementary school a more comprehensive view of the work. The course is confined principally to the modern elementary school, including enough of previous conditions to illuminate it. It discusses the great modern movements, such as those instituted by Rousseau, Pestalozzi, Herbart, and Froebel, because of their bearing upon our present day WEBER NORMAL COLLEGE 31 educational situation. Text: Parker, History of Modern Elementary Education. References: Some good modern history and Monroe, A Brief Course in the History of Education, etc. Fall quarter. Three hours' credit. Science of EducationThic course deals with the broad principles underlying the present theory and practice of education. The following general divisions suggest the scope of the field: (1) Meaning, value and aims in education. (2) Material for Education. (3) Means of Education. (4) Methods in Education. (5) Measuring results in Education. The course is required by the state for a Life Diploma. Five recitations per week. Winter quarter. Three hours' credit. Methods of TeachingThe course in Methods considers the principles of psychology as applied to the various aspects of the teaching process and learning processeconomy in learning, the technique of the recitation, the different lesson types, supervision and direction of study, and in general the factors involved in efficient teaching. It also emphasizes the routine features of the school, the daily program, school discipline. Text: Earhart, Types of Teaching. References: McMurray, Method of the Recitation; Strayer, A Brief Course in the Teaching Process; Bagley, School Discipline, etc. Winter quarter. Three hours' credit. TRAINING AND METHODS OrganizationThe county schools are the training schools of Weber Normal College. PurposeThis part of the school work is conducted expressly as a laboratory in which the student-teachers |