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Description: ANNUAL REGISTER.19their powers of thought. These differences make it pthe strictly
one class to make that preparation for teaching which the United
aims to give, in much less time than is required of the class vPra>
enter without either scholarship or mental discipline.
Hence the necessity for differing courses of instruction.REGULAR ENGLISH COURSE.Since the last register was published, the Board of Trustees
have revised the course of study formerly pursued, and have or¬
dered that two other courses be arranged with reference to the
second and third classes named above. The main features of the
regular course are the following:First. The first three terms form an elementary course in
which the student completes the study of all the legal branches
except the History of the United States, and receives instruction
in the theory and practice of teaching during each of these three
terms.The strictly professional work of these three terms consists:(a.) Of the study of the school in respect of its purposes, and
the methods by which the teacher seeks to realize these purposes.
The process by which these methods are taught is by a systematic
course of observation in the model schools, under the direction
and supervision of the teacher of methods, and the subsequent
interpretation of what has been observed. This is a study of the
actual school as it is taught from day to day by the training
teachers
and to this study one term is devoted.(6.) In the second term the theory of the school is presented

the principles and laws governing the organization are discovered
and stated. Through this study the student is enabled to see
more clearly the reasons for much that he observed during the
former term.(e.) The third term is devoted to a thorough study of (1)
methods of teaching arithmetic and language including both the
reading and composition work in the first eight grades of the
primary school
and (2) practice in teaching in these grades.The student completing the work of these three terms will be
able to teach in the primary departments of the graded school, and
in the ordinary country school, with reasonable assurance of success.
2—Normal School.
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