Excerpt from How to Teach the Special Subjects The companion volume in this series of textbooks, written by the same authors, has proven very useful to thousands of teachers as a guide in giving instruction in the so-called fundamental subjects of the ele-mentary-school course. The teaching of arithmetic, geography, history, and English, though, is usually found easy in comparison with that of the special subjects, largely due to the better instruction in both subject-matter and methods which teachers in training are given in these fundamentals. In many of our larger school systems, too, special supervisors for each of the special subjects are employed to direct the instruction and to advise teachers as to the best practices and the most satisfactory methods to be employed. In the smaller school systems, however, and in all rural-school systems not organized under the county-unit form of school administration, such special supervision is almost invariably absent. In all such schools elementary teachers must not only teach the fundamental, but the special, subjects as well, without other help than an occasional visit from a supervisory officer and such books as the present number in the series and its companion volume can give. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.