Northern Arizona State Teachers College - La Cuesta Yearbook (Flagstaff, AZ)

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CREATION OF THE WHITE MAN

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TRAINING SCHOOL SNAKE DANCE

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Tteaaiitrnini Sell ! By KATIE WEGER Wants are the ultimate sources of all values. This under- lying principle upon which the training school is striving day by day to fit its people for social living is also one which seems to be an underlying principle of life. To a student who has been in the field it seems that this is the principle we need to bring into our modern education. The aim of the training school 'is education for unselfish leadership in a democratic society. The teachers believe in the fact that Only through constant participation in cooper- ation children gain the abilities, attitude and habits which prepare them for such leadership. This leadership IS foster- ed by group work in the classrooms, playground activities, dancing, athletics dramatization, musical appreciation, con- structive activities and group projects. The departments of the training school are: Kindergarten, primary, intermediate and junior high. The general aim of the kindergarten is the improvement by conduct, which leads to the formations of habit. This habit formation is developed through such activities as sing- ing, playing, dramatization, dancing and constructive work. The habit formation is carried on in the primary grades and the training for leadership begun. However, the fundamen- tals are not forgotten and the children are trained in these processes as truly as they were in the old-fashioned type of school, but this is not done until the desire to know these things is created and the necessary drill becomes play. The development of individuality is also begun through free time project work. It is in the intermediate grades that individuality reaches its height. Especially in the free time work is this individ- uality encouraged. Through individual project comes the de- sire for the pupil to get more definite knowledge relative to his project, hence leading him to reference work from which the study habit is formed. The regular curriculum of read- ing, writing, arithmetic, spelling, geography and language is taught through group organization. The junior high school consists of the sixth, seventh and eighth grades. In the daily program the common branches required by the state course of study are taught in the fore- noon and electives in the afternoon. The type of mathematics taught is arithmetic with simple geometrical problems in the sixth grade and arithmetic with some algebra and geometry in the seventh and eighth grades. Most of the English work is One Hundred Forty-Six