Tricks of the Trade
HERE is a/common (but mistaken) belief that all a teacher needs is a knowledge of his subject; and another (almost as mistaken) that all he requires is a knowledge of how to teach. The truth lies between these two extremes. True, the teacher must know his subject-the deeper his knowledge the better, But (and a big but at that) to be really successful he has many other things to learn. Some of these he will learn from experience-little tricks of the trade like speaking distinctly and at the right speed; using language that his pupils will ‘understand, remembering that the lame, the halt and the blind congregate in the back row of the classroom; and so on-some he ‘can learn from books and from hard study; the working of the child mind has been the subject of much investigation; he will have to know something about the normal rate of growth and development. In other words, he must know his subject and his pupils, and, further, what the whole
| Be — — business of teaching is about. That he requires certain moral characteristics — justice and honesty. among them, goes without saying.-(" Education as a Profession," A. B. Thompson, 1Y A, September 18.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 120, 10 October 1941, Page 5
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204Tricks of the Trade New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 120, 10 October 1941, Page 5
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