Teachers’ Guide

These volumes have been planned for the guidance of teachers who have to deal with children from the age of 11 and upward. Every year the teachers responsibility is growing and, at the present time, he is being given an ever-increasing opportunity of linking up the work at school with the future work of the child. This involves a greater understanding of the individual needs of the pupils, and to deal with these various problems adequately he will need not only to revise many of his working principles and much of his practice, but to strengthen his professional equipment. Confidence is felt that in all these ways the volumes will be of great service; they have not been written for the educational theorist, but for the teacher enmeshed in practical difficulties.
The writers of the various articles bear names well known to the majority of teachers. They have long been recognized as experts in their various departments, and their opinions and advocacy of certain principles and practice are the fruit of their successful experience in teaching. All the writers have purposely devoted themselves to the practical side of their subject and have touched upon theoretical considerations only very lightly.