Do Rural Teachers Take Time to Think about Objectives?

MIDWESTERN ONE-ROOM schools are much the same as they were when most of us were children. A busy teacher in her early thirties, with two years of college training and ten years of teaching experience, is matching wits with twenty lively boys and girls from six to sixteen years of age. The gamut of classes ranges all the way from a reading-readiness program for retarded Johnny to an introduction to algebra in Betty's study of eighth-grade mathematics. The teacher combines grades to lessen the number of classes to be taught each day. The pupils in Grades VI, VII, and VIII may work together in social studies. The fifthand sixth-graders may be together for arithmetic. The first three grades may combine for certain language units. The teacher almost looks efficient. But what is she