The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-13
ENTRANCE TO
NORMAL SCHOOLS
New Courses for Teachers, Graduates
or Those Having Completed Two
Years in High School.

The following announcement is made T
regarding the conditions established I
bv the state board of education at its /
last meeting for entrance to the nor
NAL schools:
A two-year elementary course =
Students who have successfully com
pleted the first two years in high
school-sophomore year - NAV enter
this course and graduate in two years
They will receive the diploma of the
lower course and certificate to teach
five years After so weeks of teach
ing this certificate will be renewed
for five years without examination
/ Course for teaehers-Teache who
hold a first, second or third grade Ger
/ tiicate will be admitted to the ele-
mentary course. Some teachers will
require two years to complete this
/ course. Others, provided their expert
enee warrants and they possess the
ability, probably viii be able to com
plete this course in one year They will
receive the diploma of the elementary
course and a certificate to teach five
years. After so weeks of teaching
this certificate viii be renewed with
out examination, for five additional
years.
raduates-Graduates of high schools.
&. having four-year course of study.
may enter the elementary course and
graduate in one year. They will re-
ceive the diploma and certificate of
the elementary course as indicated
above
+ Two-year course for high school
Observation-Disclosures of high schools
who have completed four-year
course will be admitted to the higher
course at the normal school. Two wears
are necessary to graduate from this
course. Upon graduation, the diploma
of the higher course is awarded, as
, well as a certificate to teach 10 years.
This certificate is renewable for 10
years, without examination. Those
, who graduate from this course will be
better prepared to teach than if they
took the one-year course.
One-year course for graduates of
teacher training courses-Those who
? have graduated from high school and
then graduated from the teacher
training course, provided they have
taught one year, may enter the high
er course and graduate in one year, re
> ceiving the diploma of the higher
course and a certificate to teach IL
years, renewable for 10 years.
a These courses have been establis heC
= so that everyone who desires to be
A come a teacher may have the oppor
tunity to do so. Teaching in Vermont
+ never offered so many advantages a,
= now. Union superintendent now di
u rect and assist the teacher in he
: work; wages are slowly but surely in
ereasing; a new state law enables til,
state to repay 81 week to any towl
which employs a graduate of a nor
nal school at salary of at least s.
: a week and board; or So week ant
board, provided she has had 80 week
r OF experience in teaching; the deman,
for the graduates of the normal school
- IS greater than the supply; schoo
boards and superintendents when the,
need teachers either visit or communi
; cate with the normal schools. TIL
;. normal schools have teachers who ar
d specialists in their subjects Therefor
5. those who attend the normal schoo
receive the very best instruction il i
= possible to give. Each normal scboo
;. has a training school where student
spend at least half of their senior YEA
- IN actual training, in all grades an
= IN all subjects. The principal of tn
normal school at Castleton, Charles 4
Adams, has prepared a new catalogu
,e for distribution.