Primary Source Spotlight: Teachers & Teaching | Citizen U Primary Source Nexus

“The trouble is that we don’t always realize how important teachers are, in music or in anything else. Teaching is probably the noblest profession in the world — the most unselfish, difficult, and honorable profession. It is also the most unappreciated, underrated, underpaid, and underpraised profession in the world.” Leonard Bernstein

Select historical newspaper articles on teachers and teaching from the Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1959

Nature-Study in City Schools 17 Sep. 1905
How the Deaf Are Taught 12 Aug. 1906
A Day in the Public Schools of Washington 24 Mar. 1907
King of the Blind Wins Against Odds 29 Mar. 1908
The Best Teacher 6 Dec. 1908
Teachers as Types 24 Jun. 1911
Plead for District School Teachers 7 Mar. 1918
Better Paid School Teachers and Better Teachers for Pay Is Commissioner Tigert’s Idea 01 Jan. 1922
Montgomery Teachers Get 30 Puzzles in Psychology 25 Sep. 1927
Talking Pictures to Transform Education 8 Jun. 1930
Teacher Ratings Plan Is Studied by School Head 17 May 1936
Teaching the District’s Deaf 12 Mar. 1939
Your Kids Are the Victims [War-time Teacher Shortage] 6 Aug. 1944
Teachers Are Human! 26 Nov. 1944
A Kindergarten Teacher with 75,000 Pupils 27 Jul. 1952
Salty Schoolmaster 10 May 1953
The Teaching Profession 26 Aug. 1956
Let’s Give “Oscars” 09 Sep. 1956
Why I’m Glad I’m a Teacher 28 Oct. 1956
Teachers from All Over 13 Jan. 1957
Teaching by Television 17 Feb. 1957
Teaching Schools Offer Advantages 17 Mar. 1957
TV Teacher 24 Aug. 1959
What Teaching Has to Offer 09 Nov. 1958
Some Thoughts on TV Teaching 08 Feb. 1959
The Ideal Teacher 23 Aug. 1959
Memorable Teachers 23 Aug. 1959
Rewards of Teaching 23 Aug. 1959
Teaching by Tape 23 Aug. 1959

Select articles from The Ogala Light (Pine Ridge, S.D.) 1905-1920

How to Determine What to Teach in Nature Study 01 Jul. 1908
Object Teaching and Education 01. Sep. 1909
The Need of Special Books for Indian Children 01 May 1910
The Essentials of a Teacher of Indian Children 01 Apr. 1913
My Method of Teaching English to Beginners 01 Jun. 1913
Indian Education Present and Future 01 Mar. 1914
Teaching for Efficiency 01 Mar. 1914
How Shall the Teacher Measure His Own or Her Own Efficiency 01 Jan. 1915
The Importance of School Gardening in the Indian Service 01 Feb. 1915
Indian School Ruts 01 Jan. 1916
A Teacher’s Problems 01 Feb. 2016
Home Economics in Reservation Schools 01 Mar. 2017
A Personal Touch in Teaching 01 May 1917
Spirit of the Teacher 01 Sep. 2017
The Principles of Teaching 01 Feb. 1919
Class Management 01 Mar. 1919
Elementary Methods in General 01 Mar. 1919
The Teaching Process—Instruction, Drills, Reviews, Tests, and Examinations 01 Mar. 1919
School Government & Discipline 01 May 1919

Appreciating “all the great teachers on earth who work so hard to give young people a world that is a better, richer, and more civilized place” Teaching with the Library of Congress blog May 3, 2021

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