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Ruggiero Ricci, like famed Yehudi Menuhin, 13 (TIME, Feb. 6, 1928), is a San Franciscan and a pupil of Louis Persinger. Unlike Yehudi, he is neither chubby nor Jewish, but a slender Italian. His father is Pietro Ricci, welder in a San Francisco foundry, trombonist, onetime music teacher in San Mateo and Santa Clara public schools. The family is poor, but all the children have unusual musical talent. Rosa, 13, plays the piano; Lorraine, 10, the cornet; Ruggiero, 9, and Giorgio, 7, the violin; Emma, 4, the drums and cymbals; and even Virginia, 2, sings perfectly in tune. Three years...
...theoretical study of the process of learning and the problems of teaching and class management as a means of stimulating and guiding the learner. Assignments to practice positions in the schools are made after three weeks of preliminary study in the course. The first task of the practice teacher is to observe classroom work. As soon as the student becomes familiar with the work of the class to which he is assigned, he is permitted gradually to participate in the teaching. At the end of the year most of the teachers will be in full charge of classes. The supervision...
...with a general examination and apprenticeship in addition to the ordinary requirement of credit in courses. Every student in the School combines in his program the theoretical study of Education and advanced work in the special subject he expects to teach, and if he is not to be a teacher, work in subjects allied to his special interest, as for example in psychology if he is to be a school psychologist or in government if he is to be an administrator. Practice teaching is the easiest form of apprenticeship to arrange and supervise; but the School has the co-operation...
Those who are familiar with teaching conditions in the secondary schools of this country are impressed with the oft-noted inability of new teachers to deal with actual teaching problems as presented by classroom experience? The art of successful teaching requires the knack of dealing with the human element just as much as it necessitates mental capability. In teaching, as in everything else, experience brings ultimate perfection, and often the early years of a teacher's career may be mainly spent in setting accustomed to handling classes...
Professor Sayre has had a distinguished career as a teacher and lecturer, and is the author of several volumes on international law. In 1924 he was created Phya Kalyan Maltri by the King of Slam, in recognition of his distinguished work in the field of international...