The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-05-13

WIN the dcClOH OF LIliS BOARD as q
precedent, and the hearty and active
corporation of county superintend
ents of Milwaukee County and the
four adjoining counties, arrangements
for practice teaching in some forty
district schools were soon effected
land thus the last arrangement in the
general plan Of practice teaching in
|connection with the Milwaukee State
Normal School was finally completed
Practice Teaching Introduced Into
City Schools
The beginnings Of this plan date
back to 1892. when l.. D. Harvey, then
president of the Normal School, in
duced the Board of School Directors of
Milwaukee to pass a resolution au-
thorizing the Normal School to place
practice teachers in the city schools.
This innovation also had the hearty
Incorporation Of H. o. r. Siefert, the
superintendent of schools at that time.
Through the able and tactful manage
ment Of State Superintendent C. P.
Cary, then supervisor of practice
teaching in the Milwaukee Normal
School, practice teaching in few
years became an established fact in
the city schools. Students detailed to
this work, however, devoted only from
twenty to thirty minutes to teaching,
and hence only the school within easy
access of the Normal School could be
| used for practice teaching.
! In 1901 Mr.. Cary was appointed
superintendent Of the School for the
Deaf at Delavan, and C. E. Patzer
| became supervisor of practice teach
! ing. D. c. Luening, one of the prin-
cipals of the Milwaukee schools, had
| frequently urged change in the plan
of assignments, whereby student
! teachers could teach a half day rather
than but one short period day. The
proposed change was agreed to by the
Milwaukee school authorities, and thus
! the Normal School was enabled to
place practice teachers in any school
of the city.
When, some six years ago, new
courses, under the administration of
President c.. G.. Pcarse, special courses
for training high school teachers, prin-
c:2als of state graded schools, teach
ers for schools of the deaf, teachers
and supervisors of music, and teach
ers and supervisors of art, were or
gained, it was felt that with the in
PRODUCTION of these different courses,
differentiated practice teaching should
be provided. Arrangements were ac-
cordingly entered into with school
boards, superintendent, principals
live in the city, village, or rural COM
and teachers Of high schools, state
graded. and rural schools, within a
radius Of forty or fifty miles Of Mil
waukee. whereby practice teaching as
signments could be made to these
schools in addition to the elementary
schools of Milwaukee.
The matter Of making these ar
engagements was greatly simplilled by
the fact that the state superintendent
had furnished the supervisor Of prac-
ticc teaching with letters in which he
declared himself unequivocally in fav-
OF Of the plan Of differentiated prac-
tice teaching, and which letters he was
authorized to use with principals, su-
perintendents and members Of school
boards whenever he found it advis-
able to do so. ,
Teaching Assignments
The assignments to schools outside
Of Milwaukee are made for periods of
twelve weeks, and students, as rule
rlunity in which the school to which
they are assigned is located, during
the entire time of their teaching. In
the Milwaukee elementary schools the
assignments are made for half day
teaching for a semester of eighteen
weeks. However, arrangements have
recently been made with NJ. C.. Pot
ter, superintendent of the Milwaukee
schools, whereby the teaching periods
will be twelve weeks, beginning with
the next year This change was also
suggested by principals and class
teachers of the Milwaukee schools
who held that while the so-callcd half
lay teaching was an improvement on
the single period assignment, it left the
students doing practice teaching with
'dlvided allegiance, because Of the
fact that two and sometimes three
academic subjects were taken by these
students at the Normal School, neces-
stating hurried trip across the city
during the noon hour to get to the
Normal School in time for the after
noon session, ana tnaC StuuentS da-
signed to ''all day" teaching could
serve as substitute teachers in the alb
sence of regular teachers. About
eighteen students are assigned each
semester to the two kindergartens and
the eight grades Of the moJel or tt ain
ing school Of the Normal School.
Time Devoted 10 Practice Teaching
In the Milwaukee elementary schools
students do from ninety to one hum
dred twenty minutes of actual class
room teaching. In the high schools,
state graded, and rural schools, they
teach from one hundred eighty to two
hundred minutes each day. The rest
of the time is reserved for observing
regular teachers and assisting them
in keeping records and making out re-
ports, and planning their work for the
next day.
Before beginning actual teaching,
all students are required to study
carefully the course of study Of the re-
spective schools in which they are to
teach. The class teachers usually
tn,,b , fou, dave, ~ tho hafy;r,ipr