QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES
1. What is meant by the time element in teaching?
2. How is an operation in a factory timed? For what purpose? What are
some of the results that have accrued from the timing of work by
efficiency experts?
3. How can teaching be timed approximately? Is it probable that more of
this will be done in the future by supervisors and investigators? Would
you resent the timing of your work? Would you appreciate it? Why?
4. What may be done, in the matter of bodily positions, to improve
mental time-reactions of the student? Of the teacher?
5. The literature of a typewriter manufacturer carries the precept "Sit
erect." What are the reasons?
6. What two factors must be considered in estimating mental work with a
view to time considerations?
7. If the attainment of school results by the teacher were treated as
the attainment of factory results by the operator, what would happen if
a large per cent of the time spent on a process were unnecessary?
8. Apply the factory manager's argument in detail to the teacher's
efficiency. If you can, show wherein it fails to apply.
9. What result besides waste of time may come of a cumbersome method of
teaching?
10. How can one acquire a clear-cut method?
11. A professor of physics was asked by a former student who was
beginning to teach for suggestions on the teaching of physics. His only
reply was "Know your subject thoroughly.
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