Also one "Special" Hour per week, in which every Teacher takes a special group of boys in some branch for extra instruction. By this means, a little extra help is afforded to many boys in a branch in which at the time they are deficient. All new boys, e.g. go to Special French for the first term or two at this hour. Boys specially backward in Handwriting are sent to a special Writing lesson; Music pupils get a lesson in Theory of Music, and so on. The plan contradicts the maxim of p. 119, above, but it allows some place for supplementary work that otherwise would have to be wholly excluded. For this single hour, it is possible to break up the entire school into special classes, where each pupil finds his own special needs attended to. The success of the device suggests that another hour should be taken for the same purpose. 4 Latin 6 French 6 French 10 Humanit's 11⁄2 Scripture 11 Humanit's 4 Art & Manu- Training 1 Scripture Joseph John Findlay Principles of class teaching Each figure in the List shows a lesson period (average 50 minutes). place of Laboratory Assistant) for the Practical Work of these Forms in Science. |