isua-isnscatalog-1891-1892-078

Description:	INDIANA STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.77SPECIAL CLASSES IN SPRING TERM.Many teachers of experience and good scholarship desire tospend one term in reviewing certain subjects which they are required to teach, or in pursuing certain professional studies, andyet are precluded from taking an extended course of study inany institution. Some of these are the leading teachers in theirrespective counties. They are prevented from pursuing a systematic, course of study by being under the necessity of teaching during the fall and winter. To such persons of matureyears, experience in teaching, who hold a high grade of license,and who enter the Normal School for the Spring Term only, theprivilege of taking a special course will be accorded. For thebenefit of these, special classes will be organized, if necessary,in Mental Science, Methods, Observation in Training Schools,Science of Education, U. S. History, Algebra and Physiology.ADVANCED STANDING BY EXAMINATION.The Normal School is authorized to give a formal credit on itscourse to three classes of students only, namely: (1) Collegegraduates (2) graduates of commissioned high schools and,(3) those persons holding one or more three years licenses, andwho have also taught successfully not less than twenty-fourmonths. These are all admitted without examination. Allother persons are required to pass the entrance examinations.Persons not included in the above named classes and wishingto be excused from the study of any subjects in the course, arerequired to pass through satisfactory examinations in such subjects. Effort is made to give every person full credit for allknowledge of subjects possessed on entering, and to assist himto advance as rapidly and to graduate as soon as is consistentwith a thorough teachers knowledge of the subjects studied.Examinations conducted for passing persons out of given subjects without detailed study of these in the school, are madethorough, extended and professional in character. The object isnot simply to test the applicants knowledge of the subject in its
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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