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    Adequate Preparation for the Teacher of Biological Sciences in Secondary Schools
    Adequate Preparation for the Teacher of Biological Sciences in Secondary Schools
    Adequate Preparation for the Teacher of Biological Sciences in Secondary Schools
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    Adequate Preparation for the Teacher of Biological Sciences in Secondary Schools

    By James Daley McDonald

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    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Adequate Preparation for the Teacher of Biological Sciences in Secondary Schools - James Daley McDonald

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      Title: Adequate Preparation for the Teacher of Biological Sciences in Secondary Schools

      Author: James Daley McDonald

      Release Date: January 13, 2010 [EBook #30957]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TEACHER OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES ***

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      ADEQUATE PREPARATION FOR THE

      TEACHER OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

      IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

      J. Daley McDonald

      Submitted to the School of Education of the University of California in partial fulfillment of the minor requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

      November 15th

      1921

      CONTENTS

      The use of the term preparation herein is intended to indicate partially the limitation of the problem attempted. The following discussion will be concerned only with such attributes of the successful teacher as are the direct result, or at least greatly enhanced by thorough preparation. A sufficiently comprehensive and difficult problem remains after still further restriction of the field so as to include only subject matter and the method of biological science.

      It is scarcely necessary to make the statement that the standards of preparation and the facilities for meeting these standards have been enormously improved within the past few years. Evidence of this is found in the changes recently made in the curricula of and the requirements for graduation from the California State Teachers Colleges. Neither is it necessary to say that improvement must continue. Such problems are evolutionary. Notwithstanding that requirements for teachers certificates have been raised the country over, the universities are not generally making very rapid strides in affording opportunities for better preparation in subject-matter and special methods. In corroboration, witness the recent criticisms of the departmental courses in special methods now given in universities generally (Swift, 1918; Taylor, 1918). The length of time or the number of units of work required for certification may be increased but that does not insure a finer quality of preparation.

      In attempting to explain the slow pace of improvement in the quality of preparation for the teaching of science, one becomes involved in a cycle. Science had its development in the college and

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