Pedagogical PEP

The aim of Pedagogical Pep is to help and inspire the school teachers. To this end an open invitation was extended to the readers of Normal Instructor-Primary Plans to enter, in a prize contest, articles that would be of assistance and inspiration to their fellow teachers.

Teachers responded to our invitation with articles telling of various phases of their experience in school work. The response was both enthusiastic and generous. More than two thousand manuscripts were submitted for the contest, out of which one hundred and twenty-nine prize articles have been chosen to make Pedagogical Pep.

The articles in this book deal with the teaching of school subjects, with the children, with the community, and with the schoolroom itself. The selection of each article was based upon its educational value.

The progressive teacher is always looking for ways in which she may make her work more effective. She turns to the experiences of other teachers in order that she may learn how they have solved the problems that confront her. Their success gives her courage to try the same method or to adapt it to her needs. This is the kind of constructive and inspirational help which we hope the readers of this volume will receive. We feel sure that its readers will be those teachers who are daily striving to find the most satisfactory solution of every problem that arises in their teaching experience.