University of Maine - Prism Yearbook (Orono, ME)

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Education office I lure are 63 studi niv enrolled in the S(lioi l ol Education, which was estab- lished in 1930 and developed as an out- growth ol the College ol ns and S 1 inns, lis | i iiuai purpose is to provide a means foi all Universit) students in regulai standing to obtain .1 secondary schools state teaching certificate aftei h,u 1 Mi- completed the sp 1 ified require- 11 11 ills, and in luinisli iIum students with professional training. liuli ol the work i th School ol Ed- ucation diiisisis ol training for the teach its in service, rhis is can ied n through thi Education Extension Vi i t and the Summer Session. In 1939 the graduate degree ol Mastei ol Education was auth- orized l the trustees to meei the needs 11I experienced teachers. I Ms is entirely ,i professional degree conceived specially ini the benefit I s umma students. The School I Education also confers the degree ol Bachelor ol Science in Commercial Education, Fine Vrts Educa- 1 ion, and Mnsi( Education. A few l the special services which are sponsored l the School ol Education are ilu hint an ol appointments foi teachers, and ilu state-wide scholarship tests in the high schools. An Educational film . „ in the V W ' t , t0 ies 9 o t J 1 A

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Professor Smyth, Poultry Husbandry agents. I Ik- Extension Service, through these nun and women s ' NL direel assisi- ante to those people living on Farms and in the rural and urban anas ol the state. The Farm Bureau, an organization hav- ing a membership ol more than 10,000 Dean Arthur L. Deering nun and women, cooperates with the Extension Service in the determination and development ol its count) and com- munity program oi work. University oi Maine was established as the Siate College ol Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts in i8(i: . Gradually, the agricultural curriculum developed into the College oi Agriculture and its exten- sive larm program. Sewing Laboratory, Home Economics 21

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EDUCATION library is maintained Eoi use in the aii- ous classes oi the University and for rent to the public schools in Maine. Vs well as the faculty al the University l Maine, the School of Education in- cludes University critic teachers in the local high schools, and critic teachers from the other colleges in the University. These teachers form what is called a co- operativ group. Dean Olin S. Lutes H . cbadbo ne. S e.oo,oiB aUo, IPW '