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Show PLANS FOR STUDY COURSE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS GIVEN Subcommittees Will Work Over Suggestions Before Be-fore State Superintendent Utters Final j Announcement. I TKXTATIV !: plans for the new I ...iirsf? of study in Ftah -hoil2 which is to 1..' gradually tried mi t the next two yea rs before submission t f tli' commission, which meets every five years to decide, on text hroks, have been definitely drawn up by tli'1 com riii t tf-o headed by Dr. K. (i. (tfiwans. Till- courses art! gradually b'dng worked ovr by sub-committees hihI will be hit i oil need from time to time. The statement of the commi 1 1 ee, in its first formal drawing up, id as follows: fol-lows: Tho Ctah law provides that ''within thirty days after the adoption of text I books" a course of study shall bo pre- i Fi-ri li"l by a course of study com mis- i fiion. Believing that the course of study should really he agreed upon before, be-fore, text honks are ndopted, tin1 Htate board of education at a recent meeting adopted n plan which contemplates the' furnishing to the next course, of study com mission recommendations that have 1 Hi een thoroughly worked out relative to the. course of study. The. law makes! tin: state superintendent uf public in-: h met ion and t he head uf tho stat e normal school members of both t he course of .study com missixin and the text hook commission; and in all probability prob-ability a number of other persons will be oii both commissions. As a result, the text bonk commission, as well as the "ouise of ntudy commission, will bo in formed of the recommendations relative rela-tive to the next course of study before text, books are, adopted. The plan of the state board of education edu-cation in providing these recommendations recommenda-tions on the course of study is us fob ; lows; The appointment, of a central committee com-mittee to agree upon studies to be included in-cluded in the course of study in both elementary and high schools; and also to agree' upon time apportionment among these various studies, as well as their places in tho curriculum. Tho appointment of committees on various subject groups to work out the details of the course of study iu accordance ac-cordance with the. plan agreed upon bv the central committee. Tho chairmen chair-men of these committees on subject groups are members of the central committee. com-mittee. ' The central committee has already been appointed and has held a number of meetings. At its first meeting the committee' gave careful attention to the article of Or. Prank M. MeMurry, published in the September, 1915, liiuii-ber liiuii-ber of the Teachers College "Record, entitled en-titled "Principles Underlying the Making Mak-ing of School Curricula," anil adopted as a -working guide the principles explained ex-plained in this article. following is a report of the general committee: ! The Six Elementary Grades. ! A standard credit shall consist of forty-five minutes of recitation and j study or supervised activity of any ; kind, continued daily throughout the i ear. Full credit shall be given for ability acquired at homo in any school subject or activity. Promotion.! shall be based primarily on the attainment of definite standards. Whenever pupils reach and can main- , tain tho required standard in any sub-je.-t of activity they shall, if possible, he promoted, or at least excused from formal attention to siedi study or ac-. ac-. tivitv. A minimum time allowance shall ! he assigned each grade and each subject j within the grade. At least one credit i f forty-five minutes) is recommended for each grade in addition to the minimum mini-mum requirement; this time is to he u -iff 1 by the teacher, with the approval of her superintendent, to emphasize or ex t end Mich subjects and activities as the needs of her particular school may demand and her personal ability permit. per-mit. First and Second Grades. The chief purpose in the f i rst two grades Is to promote the physical welfare wel-fare of the children, hence most of the t ime should be devoted to motor ac-ti ac-ti vities, such as pla v, games, physical exercises, si nging, dancing nnd handwork. hand-work. Actual observation and study of nature is second in importance, and during suitable weather open-air st udv should be a dailv exercise. Through freqnenr excursions to places of interest inter-est in the neighborhood, simple, industrial, indus-trial, social and civic conditions should he observed and studied. Nature and the ii fe activities within reach of the school should furnish much of t lie thought material and subject matter for story, language, reading, art and handwork, which follow in the daily programme of the school. Development of fluency in oral language lan-guage should bo tho supreme formal accomplishment of t hpse grades; reading read-ing from books should usually be deterred de-terred until the beginning of the second sec-ond semester of the first year. Much time should be devoted to organized or-ganized play, games, dancing, and to dramatization. Kan d work and 1 rawing raw-ing should receive considerable emphasis, empha-sis, but handwriting, number work and spelling require but limited attention. A haif-dny session for each grade is recommended. This will permit a minimum mini-mum of four credits (180 minutes) for each half day. Five credits is the maximum recommended for full day sessions exclusive of recesses. The following time apportionment is suggested. Tho ' ' additional 1 ' time specified under each group is not possible pos-sible in case of only half day sessions: 1. Health and nature group Two-thirds Two-thirds credit (thirty minutes). Additional, Addi-tional, ten minutes Health talks five, nature observation and study twenty, physical training five. 2. Story and civic. group Two-thirds Two-thirds credit (thirty minutes). Additional, Addi-tional, five minutes. Moral stories, myths, fables, etc., fifteen, civic, activity activi-ty and dramatization fifteen. 3. Language-reading group One credit (forty-five minutes). Additional, ten minutes. Language work, story, etc., fifteen, reading, etc., twenty, 'phonics 'phon-ics ten. 4. Industrial art group Two-thirds credit (thirty minutes). Additional, ten minutes. Cutting, making, counting, etc., fifteen., drawing, etc., fifteen. o. Song and play groundOne credit ( forty-five minute's). Additional, ten minutes. Organized nlny twenty-five, music, dancing, marching twenty. Third and Fourth Grades. In these grades the work should be more systematic and the time limit be increased for each group. Not until the fourth grade, however, should much formal drill work be required. Health and motor activity still hold first place in importance, and nature study at first hand and the observation of life activities ac-tivities of the neighborhood continue to furnish important subject matter for further consideration. Moral stories, local history, Indian tales, and historic deeds, recited and dramatized, should receive attention. The supreme forma! requirement of these grades, however, is story-telling and reading; if genuine ability is not developed in these particulars, par-ticulars, the formal work of the two grades must be regarded largely as a failure. i Not much time needp to be used in penmanship and number work. Ease of movement in writing anil the attainment attain-ment of a certain standard of speed and accuracy in number combinations constitute, con-stitute, the chief requirements in these subjects. On the other hand, considerable consider-able a I tent ion should be devoted to manual work and art. Organized play, music and games should receive but slightly less consideration than was accorded ac-corded them in the former grades. Not counting recess time, five credits are recommended as a minimum for rjrh v.i-lr'. :u -I o:?e ;ui:iuoi:ul i: ii 'Liu: ij;iuwin0r time aj ortionmf at is 1 l'ait!i an'i nature urouj.: One fi'f-((it (4.1 iriiiiuts); ioi'lil ioiial, M miii-jut'-d. ii:ilth. l,vH'L!c an. I home u.-oa-h'ljv. t'oLirtli xvvlr, l.jj nature studv, -; -li;..-iral t'-aiiiin, ."). j 2. :Stuiy a n 'I .-i ic 'ichip: Two- tliir'is f-ff'iit Ij'1 inimitf.-: ; a-i'litioua'. j mhi'ites, .MuraiSj niogiaphyj ct'1., 1-'; I hi-tori- talc, J". .'J. Laniae-reriiiinc: roup: One and one-thir.i re 1 it ( ) minuti's ) -. nl I itiiMt- al, In mirnit's. l.an'nat wuik ti; ilraniati.in, o; reading, MO; fcpt'iliug and pliouit-s, I ."i. 4. JiiiKistrial art iron p : One credit (-." ni in lit os j ; U'lditinnal. 10 mi nu tes. Haiii-vork and nundn-i ;!'.); . drawing ami penmanship, 5. Son' and play group: One r-red it ( iniuutt-'S ) ; additional, in minutes. Ortia nicd pla v and games, llo ; musio. etc., -0. Fifth and Sixth Grades. Pre-eminently the time 1'or rbcinif lial-i lial-i t s aiul ai-(juirin ease and skill in formal for-mal subjects. These grades should I'C thoroughly disciplined and held to high achievements in accuracy and rapidity. At the end of the sixth grade, definite standards of attainment should be ri iii red for promoi ion. The following time apportionment is suggested: 1 . Nat u re-geography grou p: One credit (!" minutes); additional, 10 minutes. min-utes. Uygieno ( L-j year) and home geography, 15 ; nature, 2o ; physical training, f. 2. History and civic group: Two-thirds Two-thirds credit (30 minutes) ; additional, 5 minutes. The two may alternate each half year, 15 and 1.1, or M0. 3. Language and reading group: One and one-third credit (fio minutes); additional, 10 minutes. Arithmetic, 30; drawing, 15; penmanship, 15. 5. Work and snug group: Two-thirds credit (30 minutes); additional, 10 minutes. min-utes. Music, etc., three times a week; manual training two times a week 30. Organized play at recess. Junior High School. A credit in the seventh, eighth and ninth grades shall consist of that amount of subject matter which receives re-ceives attention for forty-five minutes daily during the school year. This time is to cover both the recitation and the study period when the latter is under the direct supervision of the teacher of the subject being prepared. Study in the class room or study room when not personally supervised by the teacher in charge of the subject, and study at home shall .be given half credit ou tho above basis. Woodwork, domestic domes-tic science and home work shall be regarded re-garded as laboratory subjects aud shall require double t ime for any given credit. Five credits is a minimum in each of the grades. The acceptable standards of "English are required in all courses in the junior high school, and it is the duty of all teachers to see that proper standards are maintained in all written and oral English. School officers must decide which of the electives can be offered in any particular par-ticular school. Seventh year Required : English, one credit; geography and current events, one credit ; eicmentarv industrial indus-trial science, one credit. Elective: Woodwork, half credit; sewing or cooking, cook-ing, half credit; any language, one credit; music, quarter to half credit; community civics, half credit; penmanship, penman-ship, quarter credit; typewriting, half credit; oral Engjish, half credit; arith-metic, arith-metic, one credit; art, half credit. Eighth year English, one credit; general science, one credit; history aud civics, including current events, and credit; sanitation, quarter credit; woodwork, wood-work, half credit; sewing or cooking, half credit ; any language one credit; ari thine tic, one credit ; algebra, one credit ; correlated mathematics, one credit; applied arithmetic, half credit; drawing, free hand or mechanical, half credit; penmanship, quarter credit; music, mu-sic, quarter to half credit; typewriting, half credit ; oral English, half credit. 'Arithmetic must be taken during either seventh or eighth year. Ninth year English, one credit; general gen-eral biological science, including application appli-cation to human life, one credit; language, lan-guage, one credit ; algebra, one credit ; correlated mathematics, one credit; applied ap-plied arithmetic, half credit; history, one credit; projective work for boys and girls, half to one credit; typewriting, typewrit-ing, half credit: sewing or cooking, half credit; woodwork, half credit; mechanical me-chanical drawing, half credit; oral English, En-glish, half credit. Senior High School. The senior high school covers three years. Four units constitute one year of senior high school work. Twelve units above the junior high school are required for graduation. Senior High School Studies Arranged in Groups. Group I. Language and literature. Section 1. English: Literature and composition, including both oral aud written work (two units prescribed). Section English literature (one unit), debating (one-half unit). Section 3. Modern languages: Herman,- French , Spanish (one or more units). Section 4. Ancient languages: Latin, Greek (one or more units). Group 11. Mathematics. Section 1. Plane geometry (one unit). Section 2. Algebra (b) (one-half unit), solid geometry (one-half unit). I Section 'A. Plane" trigonometry (one half unit), spherical trigonometry (one half unit). Group 111. Science. Section 1 . Botany (one-half or one ! unit), physiology (one -ha If or one I unit) , zoology (one half or one unit ) , ! chemistry (one-halt' or one unit), physics j (one-half or one unit ), geology ( one-, one-, half or one unit), astronomy (one half ! or one unit). j Section Agronomy (one half or ; one unit, horticulture (one-half or one ! unit), animal husbandry (one-half or one unit), na tu ral resources (one-half j or one unit), domestic science (two ! units). J G roup IV. History and social sci-; sci-; ence. ! Section 1. American history (one-! (one-! half or one unit), civics (one-half unit), ; ethics of citizenship ( one-half unit). Section European (aud ancient) history (one unit), modern (and Eng-j Eng-j lisli ) history (one unit), current his-; his-; torv ( one-half - unit). J Section 'A. Rural economics (a) (one-i (one-i hall' unitl, economics i b) (cue half or : on1 u ii it elementary sociology (one-! (one-! half uuitl. Group V. Art. and industry. Section 1, Domestic art: Sewing and i dressmaking ( one -half unit ea-h). j Section L Mechanic a rts: Wnnd- i wni k. metals, plnmbim:. electric wiring. I S.M-tion 'A. Mechanical drawing, in- ! diwtrial art. 1 Section 4. "Drawing, music. S.vtion 5. i 'ommercial geography. Section (i. Accounting. Section 7. Stenography and t vpe-wrh vpe-wrh ing. commercial corresponds" ice. Physical edm-inum is nresc-ilied to the extent of oae half unit, which may he distributed over two or three years. The committee has not yet arranged the subjects by years. |