The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05

Standard Teacher Training School for the Christian
 Workers Ls Opened Here
Brming ham Southern College Establishes New and Com pete Department, to Open in City September IA Con- ducted by Members of the College Faculty-Stu-
 dents Complete Course in One Year

Many Birmingham people will welcome the permanent standard teacher training school for the training of Christian work CTS that will be opened in this city Tues day, September 14, al the First Methodist church.
 The need for such school under the pest tutorage has long been felt, and it is considered that q large patronage will be enrolled at the initial session.
 The work will be carried on as an ex- tension of rmngham-Southern College and will be aVailable to any one who wishes the advantages of it's instruction in departments best fitted to render def mite service in working out the pro- gramme of the church
 The faculty of Birmingham-South has authorized this extension school in which instruction on education and Biblical literature will be offered to all who wish to accept the opportunity to attend.
 FORMATION
 The school will meet in the Sunday school room of the First Methodist church every Tuesday during the academic year from 2:3o to 4:3o in the afternoon One course each in the ma terials and methods of Sunday school work will be given every week.
 The faculty of the extension school will be the regular professors of the col lege, in the departments concerned with this field They are:
 Rev R. M Hawkins. AM, B.D., pro- lessor of philisophy and Biblical -litera- ture, who has not only thorough train ing in the field of Biblical study, and experience of eight years in the ministry. but has been definitely associated with the standard training school movement, having taught in standard schools; Prof. R. F. Cooper, Ph,D., professor of edu- cation Professor Cooper is thoroughly versed in the educational methods neces- sarv to successful teaching, and has been for years engaged in Sunday school work both as teacher and superintend- ent
 STUDY COURSE
 The courses of study in this school will be courses of lectures. but while somewhat popular in material, the work will be it's methods, on a par with that offered in the classrooms of the college. Students will be expected to provide themselves with textbooks to make thorough study of the lessons assigned, and to be prepared to recite them just as in the work of the college.
 The work offered will be the eight units of the standard teacher training course of the M E. Church, South which are required IUr US 1iltOHpiceC uipioitte'' its blue seal diploma The following outline will constitute the general course:
 The Life of Christ. Rall, twenty six lessons, taught by Professor Hawkins study is made of the course and the meaning of the life of Christ. Two units
 The Teachers Study of the Life Of Christ, Barclay twelve lessons. taught by Professor Hawkins. Upon the basis of the foregoing course we inquire what application of the life of Jesus can be made in the work of the Sunday school teacher One unit
 The Programme of the Christian Re- ligion, Shackford, twelve lessons, taught by Professor Hawkins A study of the nature of our religion and of the task which confronts the Christian One unit
 Pupil Study twelve lessons, taught by Dr. Cooper. X study of the developing life and nature of the pupil. with espe- cial reference to it's religious nature. One unit
 The Principles of Teaching, twelve lessons, taught by Dr. Cooper. The meth ods of successful teaching with especial reference to the task of the Sunday school teacher, and the conditions under which it is performed. One unit.
 The Training of the Devotional Life Kennedy and Myer, twelve lessons, taught by Dr. Cooper. A study of train ing pupils in worship so that it will have real meaning for them. and develop in them a real spirit of worship. One unit
 The Organization and Administration