Curious about how much an Ontario elementary teacher would have earned 100 years ago? What kind of teacher training new teachers would have received? What textbooks students would have used? Or maybe you’d just like to see if you would have been able to pass a 1911 high school entrance exam!
Join OISE Library staff for a hands-on session as we explore materials from the Library’s Historical and Curriculum Resources collections. The differences between Ontario elementary schools and teachers between 1910 & 1915 and those of today will be illustrated by examining our unique educational resources.
When? February 24th, 12-1pm
Where? The Ground Floor of the OISE Library
Who? All OISE students, staff, and faculty are welcome! No sign up required.
Image Citation:
Primer (Royal Canadian Readers). Toronto: Canada Publishing Co., 1883. (illustration inside front cover)
“Those pictures which can be afforded should be good, and should depict actions and characteristics which we wish cultivated and developed…To prove the influential result which pictures have, place in the school room a new picture of a neat well-dressed child playing at some simple game with toys, which the children may never have seen. Watch carefully and see how long it will be until the children have made up some game which they think the child is playing and they will attempt to dress more neatly and look and act more as they imagine the child would.” p. 38
~Tena Oswald’s advice on “school decoration”, shared with new graduates of the Stratford Normal School (i.e. teacher’s college), in The Classic, the school’s yearbook, June 1913.
