The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-08-06
VOCATION WORK IN SCHOOLS IS
 TO START SOON
New Supervisor Tells oi Plans and Objectlves
 of Coming Term

Preparations for starting voca- tional education in the schools Of Alaska this fall are being made by A. E. Schcettler, who was recently appointed Supervisor of Vocational Education for the Territory. In dis cussing plans for the work the Sup ervisor said:
 Primarily, the purpose of the work is to prepare for useful em- ployment, and to this end the in struction given must be of a type to fulfill this purpose. Courses Of study, equipment, time allotment in the educational program, and teach ing personnel must all be shaped or trained to meet these ends.
 ''The instruction offered may take several forms, day school, part time school, and evening school. The first is preparatory for en- trance into the occupation; the sec ond. training supplemental to regu- lar employment; and the third, trade extension, again supplemental to daily employment.
 Three Forms of Glasses
 "These three forms of classes may be used in giving instruction in all three major fields of Voea- tlonal Education. In agricultural ed ucation it is presumed that the students live on farms or have ac- tive contact with rural life. The basic principles of this training are the farm projects, which may be quite varied in their nature, such as field crops, animal husbandry, poultry raising, horticulture, etc. In addition to the classroom in- struction in technical agriculture, it is also necessary that some sort of project be carried out through the extent of the course. The same applies to training in home econom- ics which, in addition to requiring certain standards of instruction and time allotment, also provides for the home project method of train ing.
 Trade and industrial education in classes requires that considerable time to be actually applied to shop work during the school day. This shop work must be of useful and practical nature, using the same methods as the trade requires, and the product of the shop must meet certain standards, The minimum time for shop work is fifteen clock hours per week, and in addition at least five clock hours on definitely related subjects.
 Evening trade extension and part-time classes do not have re- quirements for shop time; in fact, much of that work will be of the international type, lectures, dem onstration and discussion, the en- phasis being placed on the technical material of the trade and not the tool practices.
 Commercial sducation is no. in- eluded in the program, as no pro- vision was made for that form of vocational education in the original Smith-Hughes Act.
 Plans fer Alaska Schools
 .The rather limited appropria- tion will make it necessary to con- fine the work to the larger schools in incorporated districts. Plans are under way to establish vocational classes in several of these schools where the local board is interested and wishes to cooperate.
 With the beginning of the school year, at least one school will have classes in Vocational Agriculture and perhaps others will find it pos sible to begin some of this wokr.
 Other schools will enlarge and modify their programs in Home Economics to meet vocational stan- dards, making allowance of increas- ed time for that work in the high school program
 Tn the field of Trade and Indus trial Education, the General Indus trial Shop is the type of program best fitted for the larger schools This is the type of training found