The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-14
EDUCATIONAL UPLiFT
New Requirements for Superinten
dents and Teachers.

Bellows Falls, April 10-According
to an announcement made by H. ID.
Ryder, secretary OF the new board OF
education, old style educational
meetings" will be discontinued in
Vermont. The board has voted to ap
prove expenditures for gatherings of
teachers and school officials, but has
refused to authorize general educa-
tional rallies, whose usefulness has
been outlived.
Hereafter appointees as union SUI
perintendents in Vermont will be OBJ
liged to meet certain qualifications.
Heretofore not even high school
graduation has been required of dis
trict superintendent although as a
matter of fact many of them have
been college graduates. Superinten-
dents who have served acceptably
and are now in office will be granted
certificates, but the following quail
fications viii be required of new
men:
IA college degree or graduation
from four years course in a normal
school following upon a four years
course In secondary school.
2-Actual teaching experience of
at least two years.
3-Evidence of knowledge of the
history of education, educational
psychology. school administration
and methods of teaching.
present incumbents should be
put under promotion requirements
that will tend TO increase their effic-
iency in service as follows: All in
creases in salary should be condi-
toned upon satisfactory evidence Of
the completion of stated minimum
of professional study.
Similarly high school teachers who
can present satisfactory record will
be entitled to a certificate for FIVE
years, but after July l, 1913, certifi-
Gates will be granted for positions
in Vermont high schools of the first
class only to those who can meet
the following requirements:
l. A college degree or graduation
from a four years normal course fol-
lowing a four years course in a Sec
ondary school.
2. Satisfactory evidence of college
work in at least two or three-hour
courses pursued through one year of
two semesters each. said courses con
shutting the majors" for certifica-
ton.
3. Satisfactory evidence of college
work in at least two other subjects
pursued through one semester each.
said courses constituting the min
ors" for certification.
The subjects under two and thre,
to be selected from the following list.
English, history, mathematics.
French, German, Greek, Latin, bio
logy, botany. agriculture, physics,
chemistry, music. drawing, mechani.
cal arts, physical geography, physio-
logy. domestic science.
After july l, 1914, high school
teachers will be obliged to meet the
following professional requirements:
Satisfactory evidence of the com
pletion of college work in at least
four semester courses of three hours
each or two year courses of three
hours each in subjects selected from
the following fields: History and
principles of education, psychology of
education. methods OF teaching.
school administration.
Heretofore there has been no such
standard for high school teachers in
Vermont and this action of the board
of education places the State in an
advanced position. Since the State
requires that high school tuition be
paid for every qualified pupil in the
State, whether the town in which he
resides supports a high school OF not
and by this action many towns profit
largely from tuition receipts from
high school pupils. IL is only fair to
the State and just to the pupils that
the State should take measures that
the teachers in these high schools be
properly qualified and trained.
At a recent meeting Of the board.
teacher training courses we're au-
thorized in the following towns: Ben
nington. Middlebury. Craftsbury, Ran
dolph. Burlington. Derby. Bradford.
Morrisville, Nergennes. Woodstock.
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