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SECONDARY EDUCATION Educational Psychology (440 b) Required in First Year Three periods a week for term B. The Psychology of Adolescence and the High School Subjects. While the first term's work in psychology is general in its nature, this of Course IV.
course
is
restricted largely to the educational aspects of the
Such
phychology of adolescence and the high school subjects.
topics are discussed as the physiological significance of the
adolescent period, the psychological
phenomena
of adolescence,
the social, the moral, and the religious aspects of adolescence.
The changes
in the
youth 's disposition the new, rational basis ;
and the and psy-
for his conduct; the various motives that hold sway,
peculiar stress that accompanies the physiological chological changes he
is undergoing, are studied with the end in view that the teacher may use a more rational form of control and appeal, both in discipline and instruction. In addition to this intimate study of the high school pupil, a careful examination will be made of the psychology underlying the content, the aims, and the methods of the high
distinct
school curriculum.
Methods and Management (441) Required in Second Year Four periods a week for the academic term. High School Methods and Management. This course is furof Course IV.
nished in order to provide a conscious,
method
of teaching.
The fundamentals
evaluated,
such as interest, motive, attention, assignments group, and
class,
—the
art of questioning,
sidered; then the attention
is
the various types of teaching.
trations,
draw upon
etc.,
—individual,
are
first
con-
directed to the development of
Finally the methods used in the
individual subjects are treated briefly. are required to
skilled
of general method,
At
all
times students
their directed teaching for illus-
and the supervisor requires the student-teacher
to
put into practical operation in the classroom the ideas gained in the
Methods and Management Course.
The
significant