Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1884 — Training in the Art of Teaching. [ARTICLE]

Training in the Art of Teaching.

A successful school for the training of yoting women in the act of teaching is in operation in Dos Moines. They are put into actual school-room work and required to discipline and instruct in accordance with the principles of the “new education,” and under the constant criticism and control of one of the best primary workers in the State. Three rooms have been set apart for this young school, and two young teaehers have been assigned to each room. While one is teaching, the other is studying the best books on the history and science of education, and during about half the time is present, pencil in hand, noting all violations of Pestalozzian principles, all faulty methods, every petulant inflection of the voice, disregard of poor deportment or anything else which would injure a teacher’s influence upon the school. These criticisms are read aud discussed by the training teacher and tho young women at the dose of the session, and prove a strong incentive to the correction of errors and the establishment of better methods. In the study of the history and science of education, a complete and appreciative mastery of a few well-chosen books is preferred to a more extensive and necessarily mere hasty perusal of the many excellent works now accessible; and every member of the training class is thoroughly examined by the principal of the high school or the superintendent on the subject matter of the books required in the course. —New York Tribune.