- Teaching in matters pertaining to health is assigned little time in the
elementary schools, and the time that is assigned to it is frequently given to
something else. The subject gets pushed off the program by one of the so-called
"essentials." A course in hygiene should be drawn up, and practical applications
of the work should be arranged through having pupils look after the sanitary
conditions of rooms and grounds. The school doctors and nurses should help in
this teaching and practice. - Physical training is given about as much time as in the average city, but
without adequate facilities for outdoor and indoor plays and games. At present
the work is too largely of the formal gymnastic type. Desirable improvements in
the course are being advocated by the directors and supervisors of the work.
They are recommending and introducing, where conditions will permit, the use
of games, athletics, folk dances, and the like. The movement should be promoted
in every possible way. - In the elementary schools Cleveland gives more than the average amount of
time to music, but in the high schools the subject is developed only incidentally
and is given no credit. It is a question whether this arrangement is the right one,
and in considering possible extensions it should be remembered that there are
other subjects of far more pressing immediate necessity. - It is impossible in this brief report to discuss adequately so complicated a
matter as that of the teaching of foreign languages in the high schools, but some
of the most important of the questions at issue have been indicated as matters
which the school authorities should continue to study until satisfactory solutions
are reached. - Where school work in Cleveland is backward, it is because it has not yet
taken on the social point of view. Where it is progressive, it is being developed
on the basis of human needs. There is much of both kinds of work in Cleveland. - In a city with a population so diversified as is that of Cleveland, progress
should be made steadily and consciously away from city-wide uniformity in
courses of study and methods of teaching. There should be progressive
differentiation of courses to meet the widely varying needs of the different sorts
of children in different sections of the city.
perpustakaan sri jauhari
(Perpustakaan Sri Jauhari)
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