The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-02-28
TEACHING IS MADE EASY
Effective Organization viii Unravel the
Mysteries of Pedagogy-Means Much
to Teachers-Idea Is "Big" But
Fees Are Small.

The Racine Kenosha Jn1nt County
Training School for Teachers has
ceased to be a dream and become a
fact. Able officials have attacked it's
problems and solved them so success
fully that the institution is now ready
to offer professional training to hum
dreds and hundreds of inexperienced
students who want to become maxi
mum teachers at minimum expendi-
ture for education. That the expert
ment will succeed no one doubts who
knows anything about pedagogy and
who carefully reads the advance an
nouncements of the school.
BY way Of bringing the courses of
the new institution wildly before the
teachers of Kenosha and Racine eoun-
ties, A. j. Smith, Township Principal
at Union Grove has written an open
letter to the teaching public of lower
Wisconsin. Tt is essentially q pros
pectus Of the new training school and
will undoubtedly arouse a great deal
Of interest among teachers and would
be-teachers in both counties:
Prospective Students
The communication reads as follows
''This school plans to offer annual
ly summer session course of five or
six weeks which would be a distinct
advantage and an opportunity for:
(1) Teachers who wish to improve
professionally, to become more efficient
teachers,
,(2) Students who wish to gain ad'
ditional Training School credits, make
up back work, or reduce the time re-
quired to complete the course;
(3) Teachers or students who wish
to obtain second or first grade coanty
certificate.
Courses of Study.
Tie subjects offered would include
all those offered in our regular course
aud in addition the extra subjects re-
quired for second and first grade certi-
fcates, The list would be as follows:
Extra subjects for second grade,
Physical Geography, English Com
position, American Literature.
Extra subjects for first grade, Theory
cf Teaching, English Literature, Eng
lish History, Physics, Algebra.
Subjects marked (*) will be found
in our regular course which includes
the following:
English composition, physical geog
raphy, reading, Sth grade classics, ari-
thmetie. civics state and, county, local
civics and school law, library catalog-
ing, manual training, domestic science,
agriculture, penmanship professional
language, professional geography, pro-
fessional reading, professional arith-
metic, professional history and civics,
school sanitation and physiology,
school management, theory and art Of
teaching, observation of teaching mo-
del dept, drawings and seat work,
plays and games.
General Regulations.
''There would be two recitations
daily in each subject taken for school
or certificate credit and any individual
taking such subjects would be limited
to two such subjects and one addi-
tional subject not taken for other
Training School credit.
:" Subjects taken for professional
improvement without the issuance of
school credit would be given once
daily
"The training school rents text
books to students thus saving in ex-
pense of the session. The rental fee is
800.
"Credit in any two second grade
subjects viii renew third grade GER
tifeate without denomination in
third grade subjects.
''Credit in all second grade subjects
will secure second grade without re-
examination in third grade subjects.
Credit III any two first grade sub
jects will renew a second grade certi-
1icate without examination.
Credit in all first grade subjects
viii secure a first grade without ex-
animation.
"The first four grades of the model
department would be in session fire.
quently enough to furnish observation
Of model classes.
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