New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-27
TRAINING COURSE OPENS FOR
TEACHERS or EXCEPTIONAL
CHILDREN.

The National Association for the
Study and Education Of Exceptional
Children. the headquarters OF which
are in Plainfield, n. j., has recently
announced that it is offering nine
months training course, October to
June. for teachers wishing to prepare
themselves for special work with en-
ceptional children. The association
has long felt that this important
branch of education requires better
trained teachers. 1t has, therefore, al
ways advocated more thorough train
ing courses than are now in vogue.
A child may be unusually bright; he.
may be unevenly advanced in physical
and mental maturity, being ahead IN
some respects and behind in others; he
NAV show a different rate of develop
ment or represent a distinct type of
mind not sufficiently reckoned with in
school (as, for example, the artistic,
manual, emotional, traphite, etc,
types); or he may vary in some other
way from what we commonly consider
an average" child. Yet he may not
onlv be normal, but decidedly above
/ the ordinary. Every such child, having
z strong and distinct individuality, Is
! destined to become an unusual power
/ for good or evil in later life. His I'M
press upon the community or the ma
| ton, whether constructive in form or
/ the reverse, will be much more pro-
nounced than that of any Of his aver
! age contemporaries.
Not merely ordinary education, as
we popularity understand it, but educa-
ton of the right kind for the particp-
FAR child must be offered to conserve
such valuable individuals for the good
of themselves, of their families and OF
the nation. 1t is just here where the
nation is weak We have too few
properly trained teachers for these
children.
The present course at the Groszmann
School will be conducted ct Herbart
Hall. a special school for exceptional
children. This is the first long course
undertaken by the association. While
this covers but one complete scholastic
year, it is planned to make the next
course still more complete, covering
two years.
There will be comprehensive pro
gramme of lectures, research work anC
practical teaching and supervision of &
lowing are some of the lecturers anC
the topics which they will present: DR.
N. p. +. Groszmann, General Prin
ciples of Method, Rational Courses Of
Study, Grading and Diagnosing EXcep
tional Children, Methods of Testing
etc.; DR.. Philander P. ClaXtOn, United
States Commissioner of Education
topics to be announced later; DR.. Will
lam F. Blake-Burke, "s.edical Aspect:
of Conditions Affecting the Mental Life
of the Child; DR., Tom A. Williams
Morbid Psychology; DR.. SiegfrieC
Block, practice Eject and Fatigue
Neuross, Mental Types, Forms of In
sanity, etc.; Mrs. Mary S. L. Grosz
mann, "Children's Occupations, Sys
tematized Observation of individual
Pupils, Model Lessons and Class In
struction, etc.; County Superintendent,
II. c. Krebs, "The Defective Child II
the Public School,; W. H. .Groszmann
manual Training, Physical Training
Gymnastics, Games and Sports, etc"
DR.. II. II. Laughlin, Problems of He
redity"; DR.. Frank C. Ard, "The Efect
Of Errors of RefraetiOn Upon MentR
Work.; Mrs. Frederick Schod, GO
operation Of School and Home; DR.. y
Emil Schmitt, Infectious Diseases.
The names of a number Of other lect
urers and their topics will be an
nouneed later.
Successful completion of the COURSE
will entitle the student to the 'ssocia'
TONS certificate. -.
Training and living expenses are
free. Enrolment is limited. Both mer
and women are eligible, provided they
have the necessary prerequisite train
ing. A normal training course or q
college degree, if based largely upon
educational and psychological courses
and special personal fitness, to be de-
termined by oral examination, are
necessary for entrance. Each student