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New Method In Public Instruction

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Day
18
Month
August
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Tbe promotion exanrination having been abandonad, the teacher's estímate of the pupil's ability to do advanced work determines his promotion. As the teacher's ïstinmte is shown ou the report, ths pupil and his parents know niontbiy what progress he ia making toward advanced -work. In tlie primary grades the teacher's judgment determiues the record, and in the higher grades tho teacher's judgmeut is corrected by written recitations and tests. Thia method puts a premium on the daily work and gives a moderate but continuóos stimulus rather than an excessive and epasmodic one. Tests givcn by the principal and the superintendent show tho proper completion of work and are useful to direct and broaden the instruction, but have nothing to do with promotion. Pupils prometed prematurely are returned whence they came, and teachers become more careful thereafter. It niay be said that the teaching test is but another name for the promotion exainiuanon, but a inoinent s tnougnc WÜ1 show tbat there is a great difference betweeu the two. One is a careful diaguosis at frequent intervals for the purposo of discovering the disease iu its incipieucy iu order to apply the proper remedies and to save the patiënt. The other is a blundering post rnorteni to learu the cause of death. Common sense and experience unito in declariug that every eiücient teacher knows -which pupils are ready for advanced work better than a superintendent eau know. All who have had experience with this plan of promotion agree that never before were promotions made so satisfactorily and never before did the teachers study

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Ann Arbor Courier