Identifier: schoolefficiency00benn (find matches)
Title: School efficiency; a manual of modern school management
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Bennett, Henry Eastman, b. 1873
Subjects: School management and organization School buildings Teaching
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) : Ginn and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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hose in any higherclass. Some special prizes should also be offered for first-grade and second-grade pupils. Group work may be encour-aged by offering prizes for group projects more difficult andpretentious than would ordinarily be possible for an indi-vidual. Surprisingly fine results in academic and manualwork have been attained in this way. By offering prizesfor a wide range of achievements children of every typeare encouraged. Academic excellence and every sort ofhandiwork, drawing, cooking, sewing, declamation, music,athletics, gardening, and even health hai)its and regularattendance may be effectively stimulated. Work done inschool or out of school should be included. Particular em-phasis should be placed by means of moie and larger prizeson any particular accomplishments in which the schools areweak. Whatever you would see developed in the schools, putit in the prize list. Instruction of almost any kind will find itsway into the school when the children arc sufficiently anxious
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SPECIAL DAYS AND OCCASIONS 345 for it. The children will find someone in school or out of itto show them how to do the thing for which a prize is offered. Power of prizes. A prize of two to five dollars willliterally put hundreds of children determinedly and per-sistently to work on most difficult tasks. The prize-winningperformance at one fair is taken by all the contestants asthe standard which they must excel at the next fair.Standards of attainment advance by surprising leaps fromone annual fair to another, l^arcnts soon decide that ifother children can accomplish such work as is exhibited,their own shall not be denied the facilities or kind ofinstruction that will give them like opportunities. The objections to prize-giving previously mentioned arenot serious under the conditions of a fair in which manyschools are contesting. Particularly unobjectionable are prizesoffered for group projects — those offered to schools or togrades or given for general excellence. The parade. The

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