isua-isnscatalog-1883-1884-025

Description:	24 INDIANA STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.this course must complete all the professional work of the regular English course, and also the work of that course in the common school branches, including history and composition. This work must all be done in the institution. If they can pass a satisfac¬ tory examination in the other subjects of that course, they will not be required to study them in the school. If they possess the scholarship requisite for this upon entering, they can graduate in two years.SPECIAL COURSE FOR HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES.{One Year.)Many cities can not maintain a city training school for edu¬ cating their own teachers. Only two cities in the State support such schools. The Normal School Board propose to organize a course of training for the graduates of high schools, continuing through one year, which shall give such preparation for teaching in the primary and intermediate grades as can be made in so short a time.It is the design to have this course in the State Normal School supply the place of training schools for those cities that do not have training schools of their own.This will be a strictly professional course, in which a large por¬ tion of the time of the student will be spent in observation and teaching in the practice schools connected with the institution. Those who complete this course will not be entitled to the di¬ ploma granted by the school. The purpose of the course is to relieve the school officers of cities from the necessity they feel of employing, as teachers, the graduates of their high schools who have had no training in teaching. A years training in the Nor¬ mal School will add more to their efficiency as teachers than would several years practice in teaching, and the schools will be supplied with a much better class of teachers. Whether this de¬ partment will be organized or not will depend upon the demand for this kind of instruction. If twenty-five graduates of high schools shall apply for admission to this course a class will be formed.
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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