ADVERTISEMENTS DAKIN'S ELEMENTARY PLAN BOOK By W. S. DAKIN, Board of Education, Conn. To Principals and Superintendents : How do you keep track of the progress made by your teachers ? Are you sure that they outline lessons in advance or that they keep any record of what their classes have accomplished ? PERHAPS when you visit their schools you ask them to tell what has been taught? Isn't their oral report extremely wordy? Can you write it in your note-book ? Can you remember it ? Can you afford the time to hear it? PERHAPS you require teachers to send to your office weekly or monthly reports stating what ground has been covered? Aren't such loose-leaf reports hard to care for? Are they ever in the schoolroom when wanted unless you carry a bale of them about with you? PERHAPS you have tried some daily plan book? If so, didn't you notice that the entries in these soon degenerated into perfunctory notes-mostly page numbers of text-books P PERHAPS, disgusted with inconvenient records and incomplete plans, you dropped the plan book entirely and let matters drift as before. To satisfy your need for a progress record and to insure some planning of lessons, a book has been devised that is really practical, one that teachers will not object to keeping and one that you will find indispensable in your work of supervision. This is the DAKIN Weekly ELEMENTARY PLAN BOOK. Only one copy per year for each teacher is needed to insure a complete record. It has been tried out under the severest conditions. The back of every page is purposely left blank so that teachers can paste in clippings from educational papers, notes, etc., thus making each completed book a source of reference and aid to future teaching worth preserving. On using it you will discover many points in its favor. 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The editor advances the thesis that syntax is studied in the high school as a means of acquiring reading ability. Detailed statistics are then presented as evidence bearing on the three questions: (1) "How much syntax should be studied?" (2) "What topics of syntax should be selected?" (3) "What should be the arrangement of these topics in the curriculum?" The purpose of the book is to furnish a scientific basis for the selection and arrangement of the syntax topics in a high-school Latin course. Such a basis makes possible the saving of a large amount of waste resulting from indiscriminate selection of syntax topics, and it makes possible a correspondingly large gain in teaching efficiency. INTRODUCTION CONTENTS Why an Investigation of This Kind Is Needed Why Syntax Is Studied The Nature of the Reading Process Why Syntax Should Be Studied THE STATISTICS of Syntax IN HIGH-SCHOOL LATIN Explanation of Categories Employed; Further Notes on Usage The Bearing of Statistics on the Selection of Material ILLUSTRATIVE Examples Classified under Grammatical HEADINGS THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS CHICAGO 5836 Ellis Avenue ILLINOIS Surprising Results in Geography Are obtained by the use of Strong's Pupils' Outlines in Geography, on the loose leaf plan. Mr. B. Norman Strong, Supervising Principal, Arsenal School District, Hartford, Conn., has been a profound student of methods in Geography and has aimed in these Pupils' Outlines to correct faulty teaching, inspire interest, and stimulate original work on the part of the pupils. He has also "Standardized" the material, so as to insure a good knowledge on the part of every pupil, of all the things a child in the grammar grades should learn in his geography classes. The Outlines refer by a code of letters to the geographies now generally in use in the schools, so that the pupil in his study hour can find the answers to the questions asked. An inspection of the completed work of a single pupil who has used this method will instantly convince any Superintendent or teacher that this looseleaf plan will increase the efficiency of the geography work in any school at least one hundred per cent. The method has been in use in Hartford and elsewhere during the past school year and we have obtained several sets of the children's work, in the covers, for exhibit to other schools which are considering their introduction. The children guided by the Outlines, gain a thorough knowledge of the country studied. They draw their own maps, in outline and in detail. 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