Teaching Dull and Retarded Children

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Macmillan, 1926 - 455 trang
 

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Trang 11 - The teacher of retarded children must not expect to teach by the usual methods slowed down or made simpler. In all her work she must begin down where the child is, but neither teacher nor child should stay down there.
Trang 323 - A rectangle formed according to the golden section is a figure determined by a ratio of its sides such that the less is to the greater as the greater to the sum of the two. This ratio is roughly satisfied by 8 : 13, or 21 : 34.
Trang 343 - The mentally deficient child who has been taught to walk, to speak, and to dress and feed himself, has obviously been materially benefited— still more so is this the case, however, when patient and systematic training has enabled him to put his hands to some useful occupation. But a higher result even has been achieved. Mental action and motor activity go hand-in-hand, and in the development of muscular co-ordination lies one of our best means of cultivating self-control and regularity of mental...
Trang 2 - H's: hand, head, and heart; a trained hand, guided by a thinking head, and controlled by disciplined emotions. Much that is self-evident to normal children or is a part of their home training must be taught from many angles to retarded children and drilled upon until it becomes a part of the permanent body of their habits and skills.
Trang 1 - The school's major obligation is to meet the needs of all the children of all the people...
Trang 1 - Stated in broadest terms, the dull and retarded should be taught everything they are capable of learning that will function with life. But what will function in their lives? Before this can be answered it must be known whither these children are going. What is their goal? For them, as for normal children, it is the same goal by which, consciously or unconsciously, every school system in a democracy is measured — the training of self-controlled, self-supporting citizens. If such especially adjusted...
Trang 142 - The logic of the why need not enter into the education of the really retarded pupil. He should be given the simplest mechanical way possible1 that will produce uniformly accurate results. So in teaching: 601 -496 1 THORNDIKE, EDWARD LEE — "Increasing in the Subtrahend has the Advantage of a Little Greater Ease in Operation," The New Methods in Arithmetic, p. 214. Rand, McNally & Co., 1921. JOHNSON, JT — "The Merits of Different Methods of Subtraction," Journal of Educational Research, Vol.
Trang 38 - Hinshelwood describes word blindness as "a condition in which, with normal vision and therefore seeing the letters and words distinctly, an individual is no longer able to interpret written or printed language.
Trang 12 - He has no initiative, he lacks confidence in himself or else is blatantly overconfident, his mind is easily cluttered up, he cannot understand the abstract, and he learns more readily through the hand than through the head. The teacher must use methods that will take into account the disabilities of the retarded mind. The interest of the child must be aroused, he must feel the need of knowing something. In the joy of this interest, attention and concentration will develop. If the teacher follows...
Trang 268 - No. 56, issued by the Committee on Health Problems of the National Council of Education...

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