, 1899-03-18
CHAPTER 20.
Senate File No. 80.


TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS AND CERTIFICATES.
An Act relating to the duties of County superintendent of Schools.
the duties of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, establish
ing a State Board of Examiners and prescribing their duties,
providing for teachers examinations and certificates, and for
other purposes.
BE it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1. There are hereby established four grades of
teachers certificates; one to be known as a state or profes-
sional certificate, and county certificates of the first. second
and third grades, which certificates shall show the branches
in which the holder has been examined, and his or her rela-
tive attainments in each branch. No person shall receive a
certificate who is known to the examining officer, or board,
to be of immoral character, who is deficient in learning Or
ability to teach, or who does not write and speak the English
language with facility and correctness.
Sec. 2. Every applicant for a certificate shall be exam
lned in the subjects hereinafter mentioned, for the several
grades, respectively, as follows: For the third grade, in
OrthOepy, photography, reading, penmanship, arithmetic,
language lessons, English grammar, geography, civil gov
eminent, the history and constitution of the United States,
the constitution of the State of Wyoming, physiology and
hygiene, and the theory and practice of teaching. If the
applicant shall pass an examination in these branches with
an average Of seventy GO) per cent, they shall receive a third
grade certificate. If the markings of said applicant shall
average eighty five $50 per cent, a second grade certificate
shall be issued. For the first grade certificate, the applicant
shall pass an examination in all of the foregoing branches
required in examination for second and third grade certi-
philosophy, plain geometry English literature, political
economy, physical geography and bookkeeping.
The third grade certificate shall entitle the holder to
teach for the period of one year; and a third grade certi-
fcate shall not be issued to any teacher more than once; the
second grade certificate shall entitle the holder to teach for
one year; the first grade certificate shall entitle the holder
to teach for a period of two years; and the State of profess
sional certificate shall entitle the holder to teach in the
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years, at the end of which time, if the teacher has been ac-
lively engaged for two years prior thereto in educational
work, the State Superintendent, or the State Board of Ex-
aminers and the State Superintendent, may endorse said
certificate, and this endorsement shall entitle the holder to
teach for another period of five years.
Sec. 3. There shall be established in the State of Wyo-
ming a State Board of Examiners, which shall be composed
of three members to be selected and appointed by the Super
intendent of Public Instruction from the principals of high
schools and city superintendent of schools in the State and
the faculty of the State University. This Board shall serve
without compensation other than actual EXPENSES and trans.
pOftaUOn. III snail be the duty Of said Board to meet at
some convenient place and prepare, for the use of the Coun.
ty superntendents of the various counties, uniform examin-
alton questions, and they may prescribe rules and regula-
tons for the taking of such examinations.
They shall have the power to hold examinations, and on
their recommendation, the Superintendent of Public In
this Act.
Sec. A. Applicants for professional certificates shall
show themselves to be competent to teach all the branches
required for the issuing of a first grade certificate in the
Counties, and, in addition thereto, shall show that they are
qualified to teach all Of the branches usually taught in the
high schools and academic courses.
Sec. 5. County Superintendent shall hold regular ex.
aminations in their counties at least twice in each year, and
one OF such examinations shall be held at the close of the
teachers institute held in their respective counties; the
County superintendent may require all teachers to pass a
written examination prepared by the State Board of Examin-
ers, and, where such examination is in writing, shall mark
and file said written examination papers in his office. there
to be kept for the period Of one year where it may be seen
Dy any school board desiring to examine the same. Pro
vided, that where a teacher has had professional training
in some reputable Normal Training School for teachers, has
taught successfully, and presents a diploma or other sufa-
Gent evidence of his Of her qualifications to teach, the Coun.
ty superintendent may issue a certificate to such person
stating the facts and setting forth the qualifications 81 snch
teacher. And provided further, that all persons who are
graduates OF the University OF Wyoming, and upon whom
nave been conferred the degree Of Bachelor Of Arts; or the
degree OF Bachelor OF Science; or the degree of Bachelor Of
Pedagogy, or Didactics; shall be exempt from taking the
teachers examination for certificates of the first, second and
third grades, as provided in this Act, and upon the presents.
ton Of their diploma granted by the University Of wyoming
to- the County Superintendent Of Schools, it shah be the dut1
g sscn County supperintendents to issue to such person a
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