The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-05
Nursery Teachers To
Take Summer Course
Opens in Hartford July IS-Emergency Education
Program Includes II ia Hot Weather Plans

A six weeks training course for
nursery school teachers on relief
will be given this summer in Hart
ford, July Is to August %, in con-
nection with the Emergency Edu-
cation Program, it is announced BY
N. S. Light, Director of the Bureau
of Field Service OF the state dee
partment Of education.
This course anticipates an ex-
pansion of Emergency Nursery
school work in Connecticut during
the coming year. It is planned to
train more adequately those people
who have already been participate
ing in the Emergency Nursery
school, and to prepare others for
positions in new units.
The Child Development of
Teachers College, Colump ia Uni
versity, will conduct the course,
arrangements for which have been
made by DIR. Lois Hayden Meek,
director of the child Welfare In
stitute, New York city. Miss Helen
Christianson OF New York City will
be the director, and Miss Marguer-
lite v. Peterson, head Of Emergen.
cy Nursery Schools in Connecticut,
will be the administrator.
Two public schools in Hartford,
the Arsenal and the Henry Bar
nard, will be used for the course,
where four demonstration nursery
units will be set up. The units will
be attended by children from two
to five years of age, most of whom
have been enrolled during the past
year in Hartford Emergency Nurs-
cry Schools. The whole training
will center around observation and
participation in THESE four units
under the guidance Of the staff.
Mackenzie hall, wornen's dormi-
tory OF the Hartford Seminary
foundation, will be used for resi-
dental quarters for students en-
rolled in the course.
The Emergency Nursery schools
have been organized to employ
needy teachers and to give service
for which the public school sys-
TENS have not heretofore assumed
responsibility.
When nursery schools were es-
tablished as q work-relief project
Harry L. Hopkins, federal emer-
gency relief administrator. said.
young children Of pre-school age
in the homes Of needy and unern.
ployed parents are suffering from
the conditions existing in the
homes incident to current eco
nomic and social difficulties. The
educational and health programs
of nursery schools can aid as moth
ing else in combating the physical
and mental handicaps being inn
posed upon these children. Fur
thermore, the nursery school pro-
gram includes the participation of
parents. In this way it serves to
benefit the child from every point
of view and parents are both re-
lieved from their anxieties result
ing from the worry of inadequate
home provisions for their young
children and are included in an ed
ucationnl program on an adult level
which will raise their morale and
that Of the entire family and the
community"
The Hartford summer nursery
school training course will have
two sessions. The first, from July
Is to August 3, will be for exper-
fenced nursery school workers who
have been employed in Emergency
Nursery schools during the past
year. The second session, from
August to rs, will be open to
those inexperienced in work in the
emergency nursery school program.
Applicants will be carefully
selected. They must be certified for
relief. in accordance with the re-
quirements of the Connecticut
Emergency Relief commission.