Principles of Teaching

Contents: Preface. 1. Purposes behind teaching. 2. What is teaching? 3. The joys of teaching. 4. Personality. 5. Personality. 6. Attainment. 7. Native tendencies. 8. What to do with native tendencies. 9. Individual differences. 10. Individual differences and teaching. 11. Attention. 12. What makes for interest. 13. A laboratory lesson in interest. 14. The more immediate problems in teaching. 15. organizing the lesson.  16. Illustrating and supplementing a lesson. 17. The aim. 18. Application. 19. Methods of the recitation. 20.  Review and preview. 21. The question as a factor in education. 22. The problem of discipline. 23. Creating class spirit. 24. Conversion the real test of teaching.

"That ever old question, "How to Teach" become ever new when made to read, "How to Teach Better". This volume aims to raise those problems which every teacher sooner or later faces, and it attempts to suggest an approach by way of solution which will insure at least some degree of growth towards efficiency. In these chapters author has explained the principles of teaching in a very simple language and covered almost all the aspects of teaching." (jacket)