Examination Questions in Methods of Teaching and School Management, for Licenses to Teach in New York City - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914. Excerpt: ... 1. A tailor sold % of a piece of cloth containing 3 5/9 yards for $2 5/13. At this rate, what was the value of the whole piece? 2. If a circular tract of land % miles across produced in one year 200,000 tons of coal, how many tons would a circular tract % of a mile across produce? 4. Describe how to teach in map study direction and distance. (10) 5. Make a list of the means by which pupils may be led to realize the climatic conditions of the desert of Arizona or of Sahara. (8) 6. Give a list of five kinds of interesting associations that may be made in the teaching of the geography of Switzerland or of Alaska. Illustrate each kind. (10) 7. Describe briefly the proper position of the body, arm and hand in a free-arm movement penmanship exercise. Write a progressive series of four types of exercises for beginners in such penmanship. (8) 8. Describe a lesson on some common insect, stating particularly what observations the pupils should make, what facts the pupils should be expected to remember, and what use they should make of their knowledge. Specify the grade for which this lesson is appropriate. (14) 9. Make a list of the errors in the following sentences, and rewrite the sentences as they should be: 1. I have told you yesterday already that I could finish my work if I hadn't have laid down for a rest and went sound asleep. (4) 2. Perhaps one of the truest but least honored in his life of poets has been Robert Burns, and the people of his own day neglected him. (4) 10. 1. Indicate the correct pronunciation of positively, champion, athletic, mingle. (2) 2. Describe two ways of leading a pupil to overcome the habit of pronouncing that as dat. (2) 3. Give a word containing another sound of th than the one in that, and explain the difference between the two ...

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