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THE TEACHER'S MANUAL.

OR

METHODS OF TEACHING

THE COMMON BRANCHES,

ORTHOEPY, ORTHOGRAPHY, GRAMMAR, GEOGRAPHY.
ARITHMETIC AND ELOCUTION;

INCLUDING

THE OUTLINES, TECHNICALITIES, EXPLANATIONS, DEMONSTRATIONS,
DEFINITIONS AND METHODS,

INTRODUCTORY AND PECULIAR TO EACH BRANCH.

BY ALFRED HOLBROOK,

PRINCIPAL OF NORMAL SCHOOL, LEBANON, OHIO.

FOURTH EDITION.

A. S. BARNES & COMPANY,

NEW YORK AND CHICAGO.

KD33017

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
047*172

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859,
BY A. S. BARNES AND BURR,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern
District of New York.

PREFACE.

MULTITUDES of growing teachers spend money by tens or hundreds every year, in visiting schools, in order, that by witnessing the operations of teachers of acknowledged ability, they may improve or remodel their own systems. This volume is designed to take a working school on a visit to teachers. It presents to its readers in succession, classes in the several grades of the common branches in actual operation, and the teachers pursuing such methods as have proved abundantly successful with large numbers who have tried them.

The Normal has been undertaken as a matter of necessity for training classes of Teachers. All books hitherto written for teachers, being designed

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