SUNY Plattsburgh - Cardinal Yearbook (Plattsburgh, NY)

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Tl ILl TkAININO SCI IOOL THE main objective of our Training School is to familiarize the prospective teachers with the best and most progressive methods in the education of young children. It is designed to give every student an opportunity to gain a broader under- standim; of the child by observing him in a natural setting, and by teaching him under the guidance of experienced teacheis. These observations and teaching experiences form the basis of the education of the Normal students, for it is from them that they gain their practical knowledge of how to teach. The Training School attempts to be a model for students to copy. It stresses the motivation factors by introducing units such as those carried out this year on electricity, boats, and nature study. It stimulates the child ' s activity by encourag- ing expression in forms of art, music, and dramatics. It encourages social develop- ment by assembly programs such as those given at Thanksgiving and Christmas. It develops individual differences by a rich and varied curriculum and by the use of a discriminately chosen and well-stacked Juvenile Library. It gives the Normal student an opportunity to observe good techniques and methods used in the preparation, organization, and presentation of subject matter. In addition they may learn classroom management, program making, remedial teaching and similar problems growing out of actual teaching situations. The experiences in the Training School are pleasant and memorable ones, with- out which the Normal School training would have little or no meaning. [28]

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DAW. SIIKMKT. DR. PETERSON. C.ARDNKR. BAKKK. DR. REIX ' AY, LONERC.AN. TOPE SANS! HAGR1N IAH.M T. LYON. SOI V I RPE TI K HI SI 1 STl ' DKNT CONC.RESS The Student Congress is composed of ten members and two alternates elected from the House of Delegates by the members of the House. The members of the Congress, as in the House, are elected for three years, and may be re-elected. The Congress is divided into three committees of three members to a com- mittee, with the Congress president as chairman of each committee. These are: the Assembly Program Committee, whose duty is to provide for all school assem- blies during the year; the Social Committee, which plans and supervises all formal dances run under school management; and the Student Council Committee, whose duty is one of judge and jun in all disciplinary cases in the school. Some of the results of work done by the Congress for its second year are: The establishment of an extra-curricular credit system limiting student activities to school marks. The allocation of student money for 1937-38. The supervising of a storage room for all school materials used at dances and parties. The writing of the handbook for 1938 freshmen. The planning of the social calendar for 1938. The establishment of an honorary fraternity. The recommendation to classes concerning dues. Organizing its forces in May of 1937 for the next year, the Student Congress closed its second year of existence with a feeling of having truly accomplished something. 127]

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BOOK II FOREGROl ' XI )