Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Ephemera: Moray House College of Education

A reading list now, this one from 1965, we are guessing. Recognise any of the titles, or the course? If so, as ever, please feel free to leave a comment and/or insight with the comment function below.

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MORAY HOUSE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
SESSION 1965/66
FINAL YEAR COLLEGE DIPLOMA STUDENTS
METHODS AND PRESCRIBED BOOKS EXAMINATION

Students in this class will be examined during the week beginning 30th May, 1966 on their reading of certain prescribed books concerned with methods of teaching Arithmetic, Mathematics, Reading and Spelling, and on other subjects no dealt with in the normal examination timetable, e.g. school broadcasting, visual aids, infant methods, group and individual methods, teaching of handwriting, rural school methods.

The examination will be of two hours' duration.

Students will be expected to answer four questions, viz., one on Prescribed and Recommended Reading in Arithmetic and Mathematics, one on Prescribed Books in Reading and Spelling, and two from the rest of the paper (General Methods).

ARITHMETIC AND MATHEMATICS

Prescribed Reading

Keith & Robertson "Principles of Arithmetic",
pp. 72-131; 157-246, and 254-162

OR

Burmiston: "Real Arithmetic" (Junior Series),
Teachers' Books 0 - 4 (Parts dealing with
multiplication, short and long division,
compound quantities (i.e., weights and
measures), vulgar fractions and decimal
fractions).

OR

Monteith: "Teaching Arithmetic"
pp. 90-104; 126-185, and 192-213.
(N.B. Not suitable for answering a question
on decimals.)

OR

Downes & Paling "The Teaching of Arithmetic in Primary Schools"
,
pp. 169-452

Recommended Reading
Schonnel: "Diagnosis and Remedial Teaching in Arithmetic"
OR
Flavell & Wakeham: "Primary Mathematics", Teacher's Book 1 and
Pupils' Books 1, 2 & 3
OR
Gattegno: "A Teacher's Introduction to the Cuisenaire-Gattegno
Method of Teaching Arithmetic"
OR
Law, Margaret L.F.: "Number Building", Teacher's Book on the Cuisenaire
Method.

READING AND SPELLING/-

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READING AND SPELLING

Prescribed Reading

Schonell: "Essentials in Teaching and Testing Spelling"
Schonell: "The Psychology and Teaching of Reading"
(4th Edition)

IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT ALL STUDENTS SHOULD READ "PRIMARY EDUCATION IN SCOTLAND" (H.M.S.O, 1965).


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