Show Supervised Study e l At the Tuesday meeting meeting of or the Jr Jr High faculty Miss Edna Snow presented pre pm- seated a paper on Supervised d Study discussing its technique and advant advant- ages loges This method was adopted Inthe Inthe in inthe the Junior High school at the beginning begin ring ning of the school year ear and all aU of the teachers expressed themselves us as being well satisfied with the result Miss Snow included the following points in her paper This method which practically eliminates home study except in un ern unusual usual cases and for directed reading includes the lengthening of the class period and the division of the period Into nto a review of the previous work the he definite assignment silent stud study under the teachers close supervision and a summary of the work prepared 1 Most of the prominent educators recommend It it especially for grade and Junior High school Junior High being a transition unit in the duca- duca educational system must give increasing emphasis in the development of the powers in the individual which will wil help him to make adjustment from flom teacher dependence in the mastery of fundamentals given in the grades to self dependence in home study How to learn is as significant as what to learn The environment of the school building can be made mode conductive e to stud study than the home To study in an environment full fun of distractions and with o often ten little suggestion o of intellectual effort is not likely to produce produce produce pro pro- duce favorable results Pupils of these ages are also entitled to con social life A long home study schedule seriously interferes with needful recreation Through supervised study the pupil gets a working day the same as people generally generally generally gen gen- have ha J of having to spend a n da day at school and long hours at night Other advantages ad stressed were It is a very definite aid all to discipline because the child is active all the time in the cl ss room It saves the waste of time incident to finding out what students are prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared and not prepared and the student student stu stu- dent Jent who was unprepared or absent the da day before can go on with his work The slow child as well as the fast child is working at his capacity ing better opportunity for each ach child to advance ac according to ability The class period becomes a laboratory laboratory labora labora- tory period and not a memory recitation tion There is a better understanding between between between be be- tween the teacher and the individual pupil Supervised study is a definite and scientific attempt to correct bad habits hab hab- its of study |