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Photo of students in period clothing receiving Certificate of Merit
學生們在依利莎小姐的夏季課程的最後一天,接受頒傑出證書(Certificate of Merit)
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只有一間教室的校舍
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您想體驗1800年代晚期的學校生活嗎?試想校內的所有學生共用一位老師及一間教室的情景。

19世紀及20世紀早期,美國境內大部分的學生都就讀於只有一間教室的校舍。而校內唯一的老師則必須負責教導全部一至八年紀的學生。校內的學生人數從640人不等,有時會多過40人。最年幼的學生坐在前排,而年齡最大的學生則坐在後排;老師教授的科目通常包括閱讀、寫字、算術、歷史及地理。學生需要記憶及背誦他們的課程內容。

校內唯一的一間教室也許看起來就像您現在的就讀教室。老師的桌子也許會放在教室前端略為高出地面的講台上。然而,因為沒有其他的暖氣設施,所以教室內會有一個木柴用暖爐,廁所則位在教室外的一間屋子內。

紐約的霍尼歐耶瀑布(Honeoye Falls)有一間只有一間教室的校舍,它可以讓現代的小孩體驗19世紀晚期的上課情景。夏季中有一個星期的時間,他們會穿上19世紀的服飾並依照100多年前的上課方式來教導課堂內的學生。

19世紀以後,學校方面還發生了那些改變?

 

Would you like to experience what going to school was like in the late 1800s? To start with, imagine everyone in school sharing only one teacher and one classroom.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, most American students attended a one-room schoolhouse. A single teacher would typically have students in the first through eighth grades, and she taught them all. The number of students varied from six to 40 or more. The youngest children sat in the front, while the oldest students sat in the back. The teacher usually taught reading, writing, arithmetic, history, and geography. Students memorized and recited their lessons.

The classroom of a one-room schoolhouse probably looked much like your own. The teacher's desk may have been on a raised platform at the front of the room, however, and there would have been a wood-burning stove since there was no other source of heat. The bathroom would have been outside in an outhouse.

In Honeoye Falls, New York, there is a one-room schoolhouse where kids today can experience what it was like to be students in the late 19th century. For a week during the summer, they wear 19th century clothes and learn the way children learned more than a hundred years ago.

What else has changed about school since the 19th century?

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