Identifier: annualreportofb1819scho (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Board of Education of School District Number One in the City and County of Denver, Colorado
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: School District Number One in the City and County of Denver, Colorado. Board of Education
Subjects: Public schools Public schools
Publisher: Denver, Colo. : Merchants Pub.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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ideasin school construction, such as open-window rooms. The teaching corps consists of a principal and thirteen teachers,one being a manual-training teacher. The average enrollment isthree hundred fifty pupils, ranging from the kindergarten throughthe 7A. There is no eighth grade, all pupils promoted from theseventh grade in March having decided to take advantage of theopportunities afforded by the junior high school. In Grades 6A,7B, and 7A, the junior-high-school plan of organization, with itsrifty-minute periods, departmental work and longer schoolday, isfollowed. Special teachers have charge of drawing, manual training,physical education, and lower-grade music. In the main, all subjects are taught on the plan of supervisedstudy and socialized recitations. Where the laboratory plan isfeasible, the children and teacher unite in gathering and organizingmaterial. In teaching nature study, advantage is taken of the prox-imity of the school to Washington Park, which is prolific in plant
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Denver Public Schools and bird life and which also affords an excellent ground for study-ing certain phases of geography and drawing. Through the courtesy of the Colorado Manufacturers Associa-tion, the school was supplied with a large number of cartons ofvarious kinds of Colorado-made goods and by means of this gro-cery store, many concrete problems are presented to the classes inarithmetic. The school is indebted to the Colorado Museum for manymounted specimens and to the public library for pictures, charts,and sketches, which are used in nature study and geography. In classroom instruction, every effort is made to demonstratethe subject under consideration by concrete examples. This vitalizesthe subject and is the natural means of obtaining a socializedrecitation. Reading and English gain an added impetus by reason of thesplendid library of nine hundred well-chosen books, donated by thelate Judge Robert W. Steele, for whom the school was named.A number of the reading classes work i

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