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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. The Readiness is all. (Hamlet, v. 2.) In all teaching, in every class- lesson given, there is, of course, a necessary and most valuable element of Preparedness; and it is one of the results, as it is part of the business, of Training to impress this. Yet it is quite evident that the very completeness of preparation may prove a snare ?may lead to grooviness, to over- delight in systematisation, to going through a lesson rather than to teaching the children?briefly, to dead work. This sort of readiness, then, though much, is not all. For quite as truly does teaching require some measure of unpreparedness. Not that one advises extempore lessons?at least, not as a general thing. Sometimes, indeed, in the rare but real moments of conscious inspiration, the extempore lesson in the hands of the powerful and, above all, the full teacher will be the most effective and stimulating thing. Only very occasionally, however; and best in certain subjects?literature, for instance. But we are speaking rather of that ability to deal fruitfully with all that inevitably crops up in the course of the lesson. For no lesson can be completely prepared. Always there will arise, happily for us, the unforeseen, the unexpected?certainly on the side of the children, most desirably also on the side of the teacher. Now it is just these then-and- there occurrences which are the class teacher's opportunities: a child's answer, a child's question, frequently a child's blunder, some trivial occurrence during the course of the lesson, any and all of these things, seized and traded with, give life and movement to the lesson just because they enlist the children as co-operators in the teaching. For in all teaching there are three factors?the Lesson, the Teacher, the Taught; and the first must g...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217745277 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021774527X |
| Weight | 0.19 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.11 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 48 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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