Vlll METHODS IN TEACHING 



printed form. To meet what seemed to be a real demand, it 

 was decided to issue " The Book of Stockton Methods." 



The labor of editing the monographs was committed to 

 Mrs. Rosa V. Winterburn, under whose skillful direction as 

 Supervisor of the Primary and Grammar Schools of Stock- 

 ton much of the work has been developed. From this pro- 

 posed editing of teachers* and pupils' work the present more 

 ambitious book has grown, in which are given many experi- 

 ences and suggestions that were not embodied in the original 

 plan. In the use of the teachers' monographs repetition has 

 been avoided and in many cases the methods have been con- 

 densed, but the thought and the wording have been pre- 

 served in so far as practicable. 



The book does not pretend to be an answer to the ques- 

 tion, "What are the best methods of teaching?" It does 

 seek to show what is being actually done by teachers under 

 working conditions when they strive intelligently to make 

 their methods rational and useful. No claim is made that 

 the methods given in this book are models for others to fol- 

 low; but it is claimed that they are methods of practice 

 rather than of theory. As such they are submitted to the 



teachers of America. 



JAS. A. BARR, 



City Superintendent of Schools. 

 STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA, 



June i, 1906. 



