Imperial Valley press., 1920-06-11
NORMAL SCHOOL
FIELD WORKERS
VISIT IN VALLEY

The State Normal School of San
Diego has just completed week of
field work among the high schools of
Imperial Valley, through representa-
tives of the faculty who visited the
Ell Centro high school on Tuesday,
May 25. Miss Winnie B. Clark, head
of the normal schools department of
geography, and Miss Gladys NevenZel,
instructor in vocational home econ
omics, during their visit in Ell Centre
met members of the senior class who
are interested in the new normal
school professional course of study
and in the new opportunities for co.,
legiate work offered by the normal
schools, as result of recent legisla-
ton and new regulations of the state
board of education.
| Miss Clark and Miss Nevenzel
report a great deal of interest among
both junior and senior high school
students in the new opportunities for
cultural as we'll as professional train
! ing for women in the new teacher
training curriculum, which now offers,
even in the two-year course, a consid-
cradle opportunity for elective work
in collegiate subjects. These collegi-
ate courses, so it was explained, are
available either for college and uni
versity credit or for credit to meet the
Requirement of collegiate training for
the certificate to teach in the junior
high school of the seventh, eighth and
ninth grades now being developed in
many of the cities of the state. Next
year, the San Diego Normal school
will offer such courses in history, lit
erature, modern languages, economics,
economic geography, mathematics,
chemistry and biology.
Miss Clark and Miss NevenZel also
report many inquiries among Imperial
Valley high school graduates as to
the demand for teachers of special
subjects, and that they were able to
answer many requests for details of
the three-year and four-year courses
for the training Of special and depart
mental teachers of music, fine arts,
home economics, physical education,
manual training, agriculture, etc, in
the fields of elementary school and
high school special certification. 1t
was also pointed out that the new
three-yeaf, or postgraduate diploma
course for regular teachers, which
will include elective collegiate courses
will undoubtedly come into added
demand as progressive cicy anc sub
urban school systems make increased
salaries for teaching a basis Tor
higher standard of teacher prepara-
ton. Since the San Diego Normal
school operates on an all-the-year cal
endar, with the regular work offered
in the first term of six week and
seminar work in the second term of
four weeks in the summer quarter
is it possible for high school gradu
ates taking the two-year course,
which qualities for regular certifica-
ton, to do the work required for the
post -gradute diploma" course in the
summer sessions, while teachers in
service can also qualify for it in the
same way.
incidentally, it was learned from
these normal representatives that the
recent action of the school trustees
and county supervisors of Imperial
county in making possible maximum
salary of 81 500 for teachers in the
elementary schools has resulted in
quite a number of the best qualified
recent graduates of the San Diego
Normal school accepting teaching pos
itions in this county. With the com
pletion of the San Diego & Arizona
railroad, and the prospective compile
ton Of the state highway oe:ween
the two counties, this migration of
students from the valley 80 the
Normal, and of teachers from the
Normal to the valley, may parallel in
Importance the commercial exchanges
between the two sections.