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Since the First Schoolmen's Week was held in 1914 at the University of Pennsylvania, it achieved the status of a teachers' institute offering more than a hundred programs and attracting a total annual attendance of more than twenty thousand people. In 1916 the first Proceedings of Schoolmen's Week were published and these have continued to be published each year without interruption, making available to members of the teaching profession and to the general public many notable statements regarding the art, science, and craft of education.
This volume, edited by Frederick C. Gruber, represents a sampling of the papers delivered at the Forty-third Schoolmen's Week held in April, 1956. The subjects of these papers cover not only the general problems faced by our teachers and schools in a turbulent world atmosphere but specific matters relating to elementary and secondary education as well as to school administration.
From Helen C. Bailey's opening article, through Pearl Buck's moving discussion "In Search of Teachers"—in which she describes teaching as "the supreme task of creation"—and on through each of the succeeding twenty-four papers by leading educators, the reader of this volume is given an incisive and invaluable view of some of the key problems and important achievements of the teaching profession in America.
I. TEACHING IN AMERICA
Our Schools Face the World Today
—Helen C. Bailey
In Search of Teachers
—Pearl S. Buck
II. ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
A Child's Eye View of the Teacher—James L. Hymes, Jr.
How Effectively Are We Teaching the Fundamentals?
—Harold R. W. Benjamin
Moral and Ethical Values in the Education of Children
—Harald Flensmark
Individualized Reading
—Laura Zirbes
Summary of Reading in the Content Fields
—Guy L. Bond
Educational Problems and Their Solutions in a Special Center for Retarded Children
—Esther B. Agensky
The Physical Education Teacher's Responsibility for the Retarded Child
—John H. Jenny
Planning for Children in a Half-Day Session
—Bernice Baxter
III. SECONDARY EDUCATION
Can the Secondary Schools Meet the Needs of Industry
—Charles M. Cooper
The Significance of Believing—for Counselors
—Ruth E. Smalley
Shakespeare in the Senior High School
—Mona C. Creer
A Geographic Reconnaissance of Greenland
—Donn K. Haglund
Some German Contributions to Western Literature
—Werner P. Friederich
Creative Dramatics
—Mabel C. Wright Henry
Developing an Instructional Program for the Modern Junior High School
—Arthur C. Kelley
IV. ADMINISTRATION
The Real and the Unreal in School and Community Relations
—Arthur H. Rice
The Administrator and the School Staff
—John H. Fischer
Administration and Supervision of the Junior High School
—James S. Snoke
Human Relations Techniques for School Administrators
—Richard Wynn
Health Education Facilities in the School Plant Picture
—Harry W. Stone
Is It Time to Re-evaluate Your Testing Program?
—Harold Seashore
How Elementary Teachers Can Get the Most from Standardized Test Scores
—William E. Coffman
Comparison of College Achievement of Public and Private School Graduates, Freshman Year in College
—Kenneth F. Schrepfer
Evaluating an Educational Program in Terms of the General Objectives
—James F. Shonkweiler