B 1733 U5 P5 918 opy 2 LIBRARY OF 019 742 Kindergarten Division. Reading Course, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. U.S, BUREAU OF EDUCATION. , READING COURSE FOR KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS. Professional advancement and intellectual enrichment for the individual can best be achieved by constant refreshment drawn from great minds, either through personal contact with them or through their writings. A teacher should read at least a dozen good books every year or two in order to renew herself mentally and spiritually. It frequently happens that upon completing the period of preparation re- quired for graduation from a traixiing school, the kindergarten teacher has only just begun to recognize that a wealth of literature is placed at her dis- posal, such wealth Indeed as to fill her with confusion and hesitation in regard to the selection of books. With a view to providing direction for those teachers who desire it, the Bureau of Education, with the cooperation of a committee of the International Kindergarten Union, i has issued this Reading Course for Kindergarten Teachers. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS. 1. Those who wish to register for the course should write to the Kindergarten Division, Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C, giving name, post-ofRce address, and a brief statement of their education and experience. 2. The work is intended as a two-year course, although it may be completed in a shorter period if so desired. 3. Credit will not be given for reading done prior to the date of enrollment. 4. A Kindergarten Teachers' Reading Course Certificate, signed by the United States Commissioner of. Education, will be awarded to those who give satis- factory evidence of having read intelligently 15 books as indicated in the lists, within two years from the time of registering. 5. As evidence of having intelligently read the books, the reader must notify the Bureau of Education at the time each book is begun ; as each book is finished the reader must send a summary of the essential features it contains ; and when the entire course is completed, the reader must submit answers to a set j of test questions. 6. Books may be purchased from local book dealers or publishers, or borrowed : from local or State libraries. The bureau does not lend books, nor can it place i orders for them. Members of committee : Mrs. Mabel MacKinney Smitb, New York, N. Y. ; Miss Alice , Fitts, Brooklyn. N. Y. ; Miss Elizabeth Woodward, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Miss Catherine |Watkins, Washington, D. C. ; Miss Mary C. Shute, Boston, Mass. ; Miss Annie B. Moore, New York, N. Y. ; Miss Frances R. Kern, Kalamazoo, Mich. ; Miss Marlon S. Hanckel, I Camberland, Md. 91228°— 18 ^c. ^^^iU Educational Classics, 1. Leonard and Gertrude. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. D. C. Heath & Co., New York. $1. 2. Education of Man. Friedrich Froebel. D. Appleton & Co., New York. $1.60. 3. Levana. Jean Paul Richter. (Select any two from above list.) Peinciples and Methods of Education. 4. Fundamentals of Child Study. Edwin Asbury Kirkpatrick. Macmillan Co., New York. $1.30. 5. The Learning Process. Stephen Sheldon Colvin. Macmillan Co., New York. $1.25. 6. Moral Principles in Education. John Dewey. Houghton Mifflin Co., New York. 40 cents. 7. Changing Conceptions of Education. Ellwood Patterson Cubberly. Hough- ton Mifflin Co., New York. 40 cents. 8. The Play Movement and Its Significance. Henry S. Curtis. Macmillan Co., New York. $1.50. 9. Schools of To-morrow. John Dewey. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. $1.60. 10. Play in Education. Joseph Lee. Macmillan Co., New York. $1.50. 11. The Montessori Method. Maria Montessori. Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York. $2. 12. The Normal Child and Primary Education. Arnold Lucius Gesell. Ginn & Co., New York. $1.48. 13. A Montessori Mother. Dorothy Canfleld Fisher. Henry Holt & Co., New York. $1.35. 14. Play Life in the First Eight Years. Luella A. Palmer. Ginn & Co., New York. $1.40. 15. Literature in the Elementary School. Porter Lander MacClintock. Univer- sity of Chicago Press, Chicago, 111. $1. (Select any five from above list.) Sociological Aspects of Education. 16. Social Organization. Charles Horton Cooley. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. $1.50. 17. Democracy and Education. John Dewey. Macmillan Co., New York. $1.50. 18. All the Children of All the People. William Hawley Smith. Macmillan Co., New York. $1.10. 19. A Schoolmaster of the Great City. Angelo Patri. Macmillan Co., New York. $1.25. (Select any tioo from above list.) Kindergarten Education. 20. Autobiography. Friedrich Froebel. C. W. Bardeen, Syracuse, N. Y. $1.50. 21. The Kindergarten. Susan Blow, Patty S. Hill, Elizabeth Harrison. Hough- ton Mifflin Co., New York. $1.50. 22. The Kindergarten in American Education. Nina C. Vandewalker. Mac- millan Co., New York. $1.25. 23. Theory and Practice in the Kindergarten. Nora Atwood. Houghton Mifflin Co., New York. 75 cents. (Select any two from above list.) APR 29 1919 Nature and Hygiene, '^ .^ 24, Nature Study and Life. Clifton F. Hodge. Ginn & Co., New Yorls. $1.60. <^ 25, Social Life in the Insect World. J. Henri Fab re. The Century Co., New York. $3. 26. The Hygiene of the School Child. Lewis Madison Terman. Houghton Mifflin Co., New York. $L75. 27. The Care and Feeding of Children. L. Emmett Holt. D, Appleton & Co,, New York, 85 cents. (Select any two from above list.) Religious and Moeax Education. 28, The Training of Children in Religion. George Hodges. D. Appleton & Co., New York. $1.75. 29, Moral Education of Children. Felix Adler. D. Appleton & Co., New York. $1.60, (Select either one from above list.) Appbeciation of Child Life. 80. The Child in the House.' Walter Pater. T, B, Mosher, Portland. Me, 75 cents. 31. The Golden Age, Kenneth Grahame. John Lane Co., New York. $1.25. (Select either one from above list.) WASHINGTON : GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1918 LIBRftRY OF CONGRESS ■HP