Literary Works

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45 Archival description results for Literary Works

Viewpoints of Elementary Administrators

Item is a compilation of studies made by the Elementary Administrators’ Association, Edmonton Public Schools. The reports are entitled: Cooperative or Team Teaching; Staff Utilization; The Role of the Assistant Principal; Making Better Use of Non-Professional Personnel; All That Modern Equipment; Pupil Utilization; Evaluating and Reporting; Making Effective Use of the School Secretary; Comments on “The Elementary Principal” in “The New Goals in Staff Development”.

Instructional Process

A Study to Establish Norms, for Edmonton Public Secondary School Boys, of the Youth Fitness Tests of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation / Robert Henry Routledge

Item is a Master’s Thesis submitted to the University of Alberta by Robert Henry Routledge. It attempts to establish norms for physical performance, specifically motor fitness, of boys in Edmonton Public Junior and Senior High schools.

University of Alberta

Recollections of King Edward School

Item is a file of letters containing former student and staff recollections of King Edward School. The letters were in response to an invitation to the King Edward School 1978 Homecoming. Included is a letter and illustration from Ellenor Cleland (nee Tracy), a former student who designed the school crest.

King Edward School Reunion Committee

Teacher Timetable and Class Load Survey Project

Item is a summary of the Edmonton Public Schools project which took input reports (Teacher Schedule, Class Load and School Specification data) and used a CPU to produce output reports (Teacher Timetable, School Timetable and Class Load Reports). Item includes information about the project and input and output documents.

Monitoring and Assessment Services

Parkdale School Fiftieth Anniversary

Item is a booklet prepared by Parkdale School and its Home and School Association to celebrate the school’s 50th Anniversary. The booklet includes short biographies of former principals, and a chronological list of Parkdale School highlights. The Edmonton Public School Board Trustees and Administration personnel are listed along with the entire 1963 Parkdale School staff. The anniversary was celebrated with a short program, which is also listed in the booklet.

Parkdale School

The Edmonton Schoolboys’ Band

Item is a history of the Edmonton Schoolboys’ Band. It appears to be the text used in one section of the 1958 EPSB Annual Report. It also appears to be a draft copy with handwritten corrections. Of note is an error on the second page indicating that the King and Queen visited Edmonton in 1937 when, in fact, they visited in 1939.

Music Services

A History of Home Economics in Edmonton and Alberta / Research and Compilation by Miss B.A. McAvoy, Supervisor of Home Economics, Edmonton Public School Board

Item is a brief history of Home Economics in both Alberta and Edmonton Public Schools covering the period 1870-1966. Descriptions of key Home Economics supervisors and staff are included. The author was supervisor of Girls’ Technical and Industrial Education at the time of writing.

Bessie McAvoy

Personality Traits and Intelligence Level of Female Athletes and Non-Participants from McNally High School / Majorie Winifred Niblock

Item is a Master’s Thesis submitted to the University of Washington. Its purpose was to determine whether differences in personality traits and intelligence existed between groups of female athletes and non-participants. The subjects of the study were students at McNally High School during the 1966-67 school year.

Physical and Health Education Services

A Multiple Discriminant Analysis of Personality Dimensions Associated with Subject Preferences of Fifth Grade Pupils / Majorie Hawka

Item is a Master’s Thesis submitted to the University of Washington. It determines differences in the personality dimensions of pupils grouped according to their most and least preferred school subjects. Grade V students from fifteen classes in Edmonton Public Schools were studied.

Physical and Health Education Services

An Introduction to Waldorf Education

Item consists of four lectures from the fiftieth anniversary conference of the New York Rudolf Steiner School held March 23-24, 1979, at Teachers College, Columbia University. The lectures are entitled, “An Introduction to Waldorf Education”, “Education and Our Human Future”, “The Social Meaning of Education”, and “A Note on Time and Education”.

Program Information & Student Placement

Nursery Rhymes

Item is one folder sheet with nursery rhymes and musical notation. Illustrations around music are by American illustrator Ethel Bonney Taylor.

Continuing Education : 1949 - 1980

Item is a duo-tang that contains a history of Continuing Education within Edmonton Public Schools. Enrolment figures for 1963-1980 are included. The 1981 goal statement is also included.

Continuing Education Centre

The Relative Effectiveness of Two Programs of Physical Education on the Strength of Grade One Children / Stuart George Robbins

Item is a Master’s Thesis submitted to Washington State University, Department of Physical Education. It studies the relative effectiveness of two programs of physical education on strength development of Grade I students. The subjects were students at Youngstown School.

Physical and Health Education Services

Recollections of Ed Bell

Item is a letter from Ed Bell to Mike Kostek. In it, Ed Bell recounts his experiences as an Edmonton Public Schools teacher and describes other aspects of his life.

City of Edmonton

The Effects of Movement Education on Kinesthetic Perception / Margaret Ellis

Item is a Master’s Thesis. The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of Movement Education and Traditional Physical Education on the kinesthetic perception of elementary school children, and to compare the kinesthetic perception of boys and girls in the selected age groups. The test subjects were students within Edmonton Public Schools.

University of Alberta