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on New Materials of Instruction, Society's Committee

New Materials for the Kindergarten

Society's Committee on New Materials of Instruction - 1921

The work of the kindergarten must be comtantly new if the present-day conception of education as a meeting of children's needs at the successive stages of their development is kept clearly in mind. Having grasped this principle, the kindergartner sees that children's interests and activities must serve as the starting point in their education and that these interests must be so guided as to create problems for them to solve. The approach to subject matter is made by the meeting of play situations and the solving of play problems. It cannot, therefore, be stereotyped, but must be brought afresh to each individual or group.

New Materials for the Primary Grades

Society's Committee on New Materials of Instruction - 1921

The materials assembled by the sub-committee on the primary grades are presented in this chapter in three sections, according as they are designed for use in the first, the second, or the third grade. The project materials for the third grade naturally fell under classification of school subjects, as: history, geography, arithmetic. Those for the first and second grades, because each project involved several of the tools of learning, were more difficult of organization, therefore more inclusive terms were used as: seasonable, special occasions. The chairman regrets that much valuable material came too late to be used. Readers may find it of interest to refer also to the "Reading Exercises Based on Children's Experiences" presented as Chapter I of the earlier report in the Nineteenth Year-book, Part I, of the Society.

New Materials for Grades IV, V, and VI

Society's Committee on New Materials of Instruction - 1921

There are grouped in this chapter materials, mostly of the type now frequently referred to as ''projects,'' which have been actually used in the fourth, fiith, and sixth grades. Many of them will be found useful in more than one grade, but they have been arranged within the chapter as projects for the fourth, the fifth, or the sixth grade according to the grade in which they were originally developed. Within each grade they are also grouped roughly to bring together those that feature a given aspect of school work, like geography, nature study, composition, etc.

New Materials for the Junior High Schools

Society's Committee on New Materials of Instruction - 1921

On the whole the following brief records of projects deserve high commendation. They indicate the beginnings of a new and vitalized course of study and improved methods of procedure in junior-high-school instruction.

New Materials for Special Classes

Society's Committee on New Materials of Instruction - 1921

The purpose of the special class work is to teach pupils to become useful members of society. This type of child usually leaves school early. He should then have had proper health habits established and should then know what kind of work he can do as well as where he can get a job.