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REPORT OF VOCATIONAL
TRAINING IN DELAWARE
State Director Holm Shows
Results Attained During
Last Term.

Special Correspondence Every Evening.
Newark. Sept. 27.--Professor r. w.
Helm. State Director of Vocational
Education, has submitted his annual
report for the work OF his depart
ment for the year ending last June.
to Congress. as required under con-
gressional act. The report WAS recently
approved by the State Board Of Edu-
cation. The report follows:
Industrial Education.
The cooperative arrangements he
tween the State Board and tho Will
mington Public Schools perfected In
1920, continued in force during the
past year. namely: that the State
Supervisor Of industrial education
also serve a. the supervisor OF vo-
cational education for the City of Will
mington.
Evening claases wore operated in
only ono city. (Wilmington). during
the past year for which this re-
port = made, with a considerable in
crease over the preceding year with
regard to the numbers eerved. There
were sS5 men and women enrolled in
twenty-five approved evening classes
during the year.
Part time classes were operated
on a cooperative basis at Whining
ton with a marked degree OF success.
Twenty-Five teachers were employed
for this special work In which 473
employed boys We're enrolled.
Not many changes were made In
the general plans for the industrial
program. The teacher training hae
been better organized and valuable
work has been done, especially with
teachers In service.
Agricultural Education.
The organization for the supervi-
sion of vocational agricultural work
continued as for the previous year
Each school receiving Federal ad
has been visited from to 10 times
during the year. There have beer
eight conferences of the instructors
held for the purpose of stimulating
greater effort, the clarifying OF the
problems occurring in the work. ant
for the purpose Of professional i'm
| held about once each month from Sep
TENDER until May.
Fifteen vocational departments IT
schools We're approved for aid and en-
rolled 275 all-day pupils in vocational
work The total income of pupils from
| directed or supervised practice II
agriculture, farm enterprises), fol
| ls20-21 was s11,702.40.
| The organization for teachers train
| ing Mt the University Of Delawar'
continued as for the previous year
The department OF vocational agricul
tural education is in the school O
agriculture and on a coordinate bash
with the department of horticul
ture, agronomy. and dairy husban
dry. Supervised teaching is done II
the vocational department OF the 10
cal high school. and observation i
| done in vocational departments with
in a radius of is miles of the univer
sity.
! Vocational agricultural education
Is recognized as an essential part o
the general education plan Of the state
The outlook for the teacher-trainini
work is very encouraging. This yea
the department graduated four mel
!
| coming year"
Home Economies Education.
"a full time supervisor of home eco
nomics was employed by the Stat
Board. She was able TO visit each vo
! cational school on an average OF fou
times and to hold monthly confer
cnces with the teachers of the state
Twenty-three vocational all-day de
partmente with an enrolment Of 81
pupils were approved for Federal al
during the year. An evening elias.
with an enrolment of IA was con
Quoted fer women at Dover during til
winter months.
The University of Delaware en-
rolled eighteen in the Teacher Train
ing courses. OF this number two wer
graduated in June and will remain
the state to teach. A Practice Hous
is maintained at the Women's Coles
offering students preparing to 1eac
, home economies wonderful opportyn
ties along home management lines