Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-09-19
UNIFORM COUNTY CERTIFICATE.
Rules Governing Examinations Under New
State Law Governing County Ger
tificates For Teachers.

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of the rules governing examinations
for uniform county certificates, pro-
mulgated by the state department. OF
public instruction. Inasmuch as this
announcement will be of interest to
all the people of the county, and
especially to the teachers and those
who contemplate preparing to teach
in the future, we publish the rules
almost entire. They are as follows:
No one will be permitted to write
in any examination who shall fail to
fill out the preliminary examination
blank and deliver the same with the
examination fee of ST., to the
county superintendent. If the appli-
cant is not known to the county
superintendent the preliminary blank
should be filled out and delivered
at least one week before the date of
the examination.
The examination shall be held at
the county seat in each county on the
last Friday and the Wednesday and
Thursday preceding in the months
of January, June, July and October.
On the same dates one additional
examination may be held in county
at the discretion of the county
superintendent and under deputy
appointed by him.
rhe examination shall be strictly in
accordance with the following pro-
gram:
Wednesday A. NJ. preliminary,
Arithmetic, photography, Reading.
Inv
dactics or at convenience of con.
ductor, Oral Reading.
Thursday A. NJ. preliminary, U. S.
History, Physiology.
Thursday p. M.-Elements of Vocal
Music, English Grammar.
Friday A. M.-Preliminary, Ele-
mentary Algel ia, Elementary Eco
nomics.
Friday p M.-Elementary Civics.
Elements of Physics.
No Applicant for certificate shall
be examined in any subject at any
other time than that set for it in the
above program.
Promptly at the time set in the pro-
gram for the beginning of the examin-
alton in each subject the conductor
will clearly announce the subject OF
examination and the time to be de-
voted To it; and thereupon will open
the proper package of questions and
distribute one set TO every eXamlnee.
At five minutes before the time set
in the program for the end of the
examination i'll any subject, the con-
uuctor will give signal preparatory
to closing and, in four minutes there
after, another signal at which every
examinee shall cease writing and shall
Immediately pass paper and questions
TO the conductor. conductors Will
collect every paper written and will
accept no folded paper.
Each examinee must occupy a
separate seat during the entire ex.
animation must be as far removed as
practicable from other examines ;
must not have i'll his possession any
books, notes or papers, except the
paper distributed by order of the con-
uuctor, and must not leave his seat
until the examination on subject is
completed and the answer papers and
questions are passed TO the conductor.
An eXaminee who seeks either to
receive or give aid by any form of
communication must be dismissed by
the conductor, and his papers shall
not be forwarded tO the department of
public instruction. The county
superintendent shall in his returns TO
iIe state superintendent report all such
cases and the action taken by him in
each case.
The conductor is to make no eXpla-
nation of or comment upon the
questions or their meaning.
No examination may be divided in
to parts to be taken at different
sessions. Having begun to'write on
set of questions, the examinee must
finish it before lntermlssion.
In mathematics no credit will be
given to mere results. All operations
must be fully indicated by signs or by
written analysis.
Applicants failing in a part of
the subjects may re-write in such
subjects at subsequent examination
il taken within one year. The eX-
animation fee of $l.00 will be re-
quired at each examination.
At the beginning of the first day of
the examination the conductor will
list the examines alphabetically and
assign number to each, which num-
Der, but not the name of the
examinee, must appear on every paper
passed TO the conductor. III case OF
a second examination as provided in
Rale u, the numbers assigned shall
be distinguished by the accent mark.
Answers should be definite and con-
else. Write no statement of fact
not called for by the questions write
every statement called for.
Rank i'll penmanship will be based
one-half upon the answer paper i'll
penmanship and one-h half upon the
general character of penmanship as
shown by answer paper in grammar.
Rank in photography will be de-
termined one-half upon the answer
paper in photography and one-half
upon the spelling as shown by the
answer papers in geography, gram
mar and physiology.
The minimum passing marks in any
subject is indicated in the following
table, but the average in all subjects
must be; for a first Grade certificate
50 per cent, Second Grade certificate
IS per cent, Third Grade certificate 50
per cent.
LIST 2nd Bird
photography 20 20 GO
Reading 40 40 GO
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