Adequate Preparation for the Teacher of Biological Sciences in Secondary Schools

By J. Daley McDonald

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 17, 2019
• ISBN: 4064066175016

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J. Daley McDonald

Adequate Preparation for the Teacher of Biological Sciences in Secondary Schools

Published by Good Press, 2019

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EAN 4064066175016

Table of Contents

Preparation in Subject Matter

PREPARATION in METHODS

OPPORTUNITY FOR ADEQUATE PREPARATION.

Literature from which helpful suggestions were received during the course of this work.

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The use of the term preparation herein is intended to indicate partially the limitation of the problem attempted. The following discussion will be concerned only with such attributes of the successful teacher as are the direct result, or at least greatly enhanced by thorough preparation. A sufficiently comprehensive and difficult problem remains after still further restriction of the field so as to include only subject matter and the method of biological science.

It is scarcely necessary to make the statement that the standards of preparation and the facilities for meeting these standards have been enormously improved within the past few years. Evidence of this is found in the changes recently made in the curricula of and the requirements for graduation from the California State Teachers Colleges. Neither is it necessary to say that improvement must continue. Such problems are evolutionary. Notwithstanding that requirements for teachers certificates have been raised the country over, the universities are not generally making very rapid strides in affording opportunities for better preparation in subject-matter and special methods. In corroboration, witness the recent criticisms of the departmental courses in special methods now given in universities generally (Swift, 1918; Taylor, 1918). The length of time or the number of units of work required for certification may be increased but that does not insure a finer quality of preparation.

In attempting to explain the slow pace of improvement in the quality of preparation for the teaching of science, one becomes involved in a cycle. Science had its development in the college and university whence it diffused slowly into the secondary schools, and finally slightly into the elementary grades. The differences between the aims of college science and secondary school science were and still are not taken sufficiently into account. As an inevitable result there are to be found in the