Teaching strategies
The teacher at a one teacher school used a variety of strategies to manage the curriculum program for Grades 1 to 8 (the latter till 1963) including:
- a structured daily program with morning assembly, Bible reading, lecturettes, homework testing, and speech training
- giving children exercises from the blackboard to complete which the teacher had filled with work for the day before school
- teaching one third of the class grammar or reading while another draft worked at arithmetic and another, geography
- giving ten minutes of the half hour lesson to each draft
- quickly testing the work learnt by each draft from the blackboard while teacher had been teaching another draft
- some pupils read to each other on the veranda, while others chanted tables to a monitor or completed a card of sums
- working different age groups at appropriate grade levels
- combining all grades for lessons like history, geography, music and art.