PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION vii 



The following suggestions and outline of various methods used 

 in class work are offered for the help of the teacher: 



1 . The recitation may take the ordinary form, with the teacher 

 questioning children about the occupations treated in the Bulletin. 



2. The analyses should be the basis for advance assignment 

 and class discussion, with such additional information as a school 

 library or neighborhood employments may make possible. 



3. There may be a cooperative recitation, in which each child 

 prepares and discusses before the class one particular phase of the 

 subject. 



4. There may be debates between members of the class upon 

 the various phases of an occupation, the relative merits of two 

 occupations, or upon an important labor problem. 



5. There may be conversations between two or more pupils in 

 regard to an occupation or employment problem. 



6. The class exercises may take the form of a dramatic presen- 

 tation of an occupation, of the importance, tasks, and other kinds 

 of information for a group of occupations, or for securing, entering 

 into, and making progress in employment. 



7. Assignment may be made to the members of the class to 

 give a typical day's work in a particular occupation. 



8. Wherever the cooperation of workers and employers may 

 be secured, students should be sent out to places of business and 

 industry to secure information upon particular vocations. Thus 

 a report might be brought back to a class upon the general work 

 done on a particular farm. 



9. Students should be directed or encouraged to ask questions 

 of workers in particular occupations and to bring such first-hand 

 information to the class discussion. 



10. Students whould be led to make a critical examination of 

 each statement in this Bulletin and to see whether it applies to 

 local conditions. 



11. An occupation may be treated historically, as is done in the 

 case of the farmer on page 6, or studied in connection with a 

 science or other branch of school work. 



12. Full use should be made of the statistical information given 

 at the end of this Bulletin, and other Federal and state statistics 

 should be added. 



13. Students should contribute their own employment experi- 

 ence to the discussions of the class and bring before it their own 

 employment problems. 



