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MR. D'S NOTES ON TEACHING

Rev. Stanley L. Derickson Ph.D.

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INTRODUCTION

While teaching I presented a class named Principles and Methods of Teaching. This was probably one of the more enjoyable classes that I was involved with.

This was a freshman class as I recall and one of the main assignments was to choose a teaching method and prepare a lesson for the class. Then toward the end of the semester each student had opportunity to share their skills or lack of to the class.

It was probably also one of the most eye opening experiences I had while teaching. These students, mostly teenagers right out of high school, were preparing lessons that were challenging and spiritually uplifting. They not only were doing the assignment, but most were doing it in a most excellent manner for their age.

I trust that some of the information contained herein will assist you in your teaching ministry before our Lord. Teaching is a privilege, and teaching well is honoring to God.

I would like to introduce this study with three short items from the past.

INSTRUCTIONS TO TEACHERS

Dakota Territory
September, 1872

1.Teachers will fill lamps, clean chimneys and trim wicks each day.
2.Each teacher will bring a scuttle of coal and a bucket of water for the day’& use.
3.Make your pens carefully. You may whittle nibs for the individual tastes of the children.
4.Men teachers may take one evening each week for courting purposes or two evenings a week if they go to church regularly.
5.After ten hours in school, the teacher should spend the remaining time reading the Bible or other good book.
6.Women teachers who marry or engage in other unseemly conduct will be dismissed.
7.Every teacher should lay aside from his pay a goodly sum for his declining years so that he will, not become I a burden on society.
8.Any teacher who smokes, uses liquor in any form, frequents a pool or public hall, or gets shaved in a barber shop will give good reason for suspecting his worth, intentions, integrity and honesty.
9.The teacher who performs his labors faithfully and without fault for five years will be given an increase of 25 cents a week in his pay providing the Board of Education approves.

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The following was copied from the cover for my mother's grade school teaching certificate from the 1920's in Nebraska.

The School Teachers Creed

I believe in boys and girls; the men and women of a great tomorrow; that whatsoever the boy soweth the man shall reap. I believe in the curse of ignorance, in the efficacy of schools; in the dignity of teaching, and in the joy of serving others. I believe in wisdom as revealed in human lives as well as in the pages of a printed book; in lessons taught not so much by precept as by example: in ability to work with the hands as well as to think with the head; in everything that makes life large and lovely. I believe in beauty in the school room, in the home, in daily life and in out of doors. I believe in laughter, in love, in faith, in all ideals and distant hopes that lure us on. I believe that every hour of every day we receive a just reward, for all we are and all we do. I believe in the present and its opportunities, in the future and its promises and in the divine joy of living.

Edwin Osgood Grover

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Joseph Caro (1488-1575) a Jewish writer once mentioned some of the actions a young man should take when in the presence of a teacher.

He held that the student was to honor his teacher above his parents.

He likened anyone striving or complaining with/to his teacher to striving or complaining with/to the Lord.

A scholar was not allowed to answer a point of law if his teacher was present. To do so without permission was open to punishment.

The student was never, even after death, to call his teacher by his first name.

The student was never allowed to sit in the teachers seat.

When a teacher died the student was to tear his coat as if his father had died.

Basically the teacher in many ways was to be held as superior to one's own father.

The teacher however was also to honor the scholar as the scholar was to honor the teacher.

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My how things have changed.

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I. THE TEACHER

Chapter 1 Maintaining The Qualities of a Teacher

II. THE STUDENT

Chapter 2 Inner Factors
Chapter 3 Motivation to Learn
Chapter 4 Children and Learning
Chapter 5 Behavior

III. THE MINISTRY

Chapter 6 Seven Laws of Teaching
Chapter 7 Feedback
Curriculum
Learning - overview
Chapter 8 Learning
Chapter 9 Lesson Plans
Chapter 10 Lesson Preparation

IIII. THE METHOD

Chapter 11 The Lecture
Chapter 12 The Buzz Group
Chapter 13 The Discussion
Chapter 14 The Debate
The Forum
Chapter 15 The Object Lesson
Chapter 16 Miscellaneous methods

The Panel Discussion
The Symposium
The listening Teams
The Research reports
The Question and answer
The Storytelling
The Dramatization
The Non-projected visuals
The Projected visuals
The Role play
The Projects
The Field trip
The Testing
The Mime
The Interview
The Bible study methods
The Creative design and writing
The Circle response
The Case study
The Brainstorming
The Agree-disagree