The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-09-21


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q normal school diplomas should
be professional.
There should be : cpurxes fhree
| years IN length TO ut teachers Tor
rural and graded schools, This
course should be largely academic
with some elementary professional
work in the last year. This PROBES
sional work should be OF such ma
ture that the student will receive as
NEARLY ~ possible full credit for It
IL he should ever take the more adj
yanced course Upon completion OF
this shorter course graduates should
receive teachers certificates good in
rural and graded schools. With
certain limitations, these certificates
should be good practically for life.
Owing to its location In q rural
community the work Of the Glenvillel
Normal should be very largely de-.
! voted to the preparation Of teachers
for the rural school. To this end
! our courses in agriculture and do
i mcst.c science should be materially
strengthened, courses dealing spe-
c!fcally with rural life should be In
troduced, and model farm should
be operated. We do not mean thar
the Glenville Normal should offer
only the shorter course for country
/ teachers. but that this should be a
l very important part Of Its work.
Isolated.
Owing to the isolation Of Glen
vile Normal and the indifference OF
school people in this section of the
state. extension work is difficult.
About the most effective kind Of
work we can do is to send our teach
ers ont as speakers at the district,
county, andN farmers Institutes and
other similar gatherings. Three or
four years ago, we tried to do some
correspondence work, but the re-
stlus were not satisfactory, due part
lily to the poor studentship Of those
enrolled.
Model School.
About sixty were enrolled this
year in the model school. These
Were pretty well distributed through
out the grades from the first to the
sevnth. The model school is fairly
well equipped.
The local community is not es-
pecially enthusiastic about the model
school. Many of the families send
their children because they can have
better teaching and better supervt-
sion. A new public school building
has been recently constructed. and It
Is difficult to say what may he the
effect of this on the ATTENDANCE of
the model school.
/: Except for limited amount of
observation work about four weeks
in the course of the year each
senior is required to teach a thirty
minute class each day. This seems
not to be too much.
AT present, the teacher In charge OF
the professional other than training.
has no jurisdiction over the model
school. This is an unfortunate
arrangement, but for certain reasons
1t did not seem that the two divisions
could be put under one head. 1t
seems natural that all this work
should be directed by one man, and
I'm the future we hope to make tbs
arrangement.
Standard: Our standards Of study
and scholarship are high. Conduct
generally is good.
Graduates.
Since the school was founded 342
students have been graduated; of
there 222 were men, 100 women. The
number in the graduating classes by
years may be ascertained from the
catalogue where complete alumni
directory is published.
OF those who have graduated in.l
the last Ave years seventy three are
teachtng-all but three or four Of
them In city or town schools; TWEEN
ty are attending higher institutions Of
learning; five have entered business:
and four professions; and i've of the
women are married.
Miscellaneous.
With the close OF the school In
June a period OF six years under the
present administration was completed
and 1t may not be amiss here briefly
to summarize some Of the things that
nave been accomplished within that
time. One OF the first and probably
the most Important things zone was
to establish model school and to re-
Quire a years practice teaching of ALI
normal graduates. Before that time
'sss eASS! QO9S4b&S 4VE lu6LuQGTS OF
the senior class to do any practice
teaching at all under sNperyision.
In the summer Of 1905 for the first
time in the history Of the school a
summer term was established and
this has been maintained every sum
mer since. While no especial effort
mas been made for large attendance
at these summer terms. the average
enrolment has been about sixty. And
they have enabled number of young
people to complete the course year
sooner than It would have been pos
sible for them to do otherwise.
Additional land has been purchased
and splendid new building erected
at cost Of about $50, 200.
The auditorium in the old build.
ing has been partitioned and made
into a kitchen and dining room where
good board is furnished teachers and