The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1914-05-28
Circular No. 7, 1914.

Circular NO. Z, 1914.
Progress in teaching service in
Minnesota requires that a wide and
general use be made of each agency
for advancing the teaching profess
sion. There will be conducted, DUR
ing the months of June and July,
about twenty-five county training
schools for teachers. These will be
of four or five weeks duration, and
will open June 22nd or June 10Th.
There will also be summer sessions
at the five normal schools and sum-
liner training schools for teachers at
the University Farm, the agricul
tural schools at Crookston and Nor
ris, of six weeks each, beginning
| June 18th
During the present school year
there are more than one hundred
high schools in each of which is
maintained a department for the
training Of teachers for rural schools.
1t is estimated that at least fifteen
| hundred students will complete the
teachers training courses with this
school year, and will be granted
teachers certificates of the first or
second grade. 1t is desirable that
the student teachers in the training
departments should be in attendance
during the summer at a training
school either in a county or at one of
the educational institution schools.
New rules relating to admission to
training departments. -Rule in
Bulletin IS, under ''Rules regulating
! to training departments has been
changed so as to provide: "Begin-
| ming with the school year opening
September, 1915, the completion of
| two years of the high school course,
eight credits, will be required for ad-
mission to the training class. With
the following school year, Septem-
Der, 1916, the completion Of three
years for the high school course,
twelve credits, will be required for
admission. No change is made re-
|specting admission to the training
classes for next school year.
| Age rule for issuance of certifi
Gates. "A ttention is again directed
to the announcement made in circu-
lar No. 8, September l, 1913, to this
effect: ''Beginning with the present
school year, the rule will be followed
without variation or change of not
issuing a certificate on completion of
the training course except to those
who reach their eighteenth birthday
not later than August l, following
graduation from the training depart
ment, which is the time of dating
certificates. 1t will further be IN
derstood that anyone completing the
training course and not fulfilling
this requirement as to age must not
expect to receive a certificate later
upon reaching the age of eighteen. -
| The department. is now forwarding
applications to the various depart
ments for the issuance of certifca ties
to this years graduates.
Institute for training school in
structors. 1t is planned to hold an
institute during the last week of
August or the first week of Septem-
Der, for all the training teachers
who are to be employed for next
school year. The program will take
up questions relating to the course
of study, practice teaching, relations
to the rural schools, the admission of
students, cooperation with other
educational agencies. The general
! purpose is to lay out plan of work
for the school year and to bring
about unity and a definite purpose
for the development and strengthen
ing of the training work. All in
structors who are to be in charge of
| training departm for next school
year will be requested to be in at
tendance. The sessions will be held
at the College of Agriculture, and
announcement will be made in time
regarding plans for the accommodate
tion Of teachers in attendance. The
exact week will depend upon the
time for opening of schools, the plan
being to hold the Institute during
the week next preceding the begin
ming of the school year.
State supervisor of training depart
nts.-The high school board has
elected Miss Mabel Carney to become
supervisor Of training departments,
her service to begin the first of next
August, and her entire time to be
given to this work. Miss Carney is
in charge of the department. for the
training of rural school teachers in
the state normal school at Normal,
Illinois. She has had charge of SIM
liar work in the normal schools at
| MacOmb Illinois, and at Ghenev