Fairmont State University - Mound Yearbook (Fairmont, WV)

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BsiUleS K - - - - - ! FAIRMONT STATE NORMAL SCHOOL ; ■ — a.Lr,tt,i The Fairmont Normal is proud of the record which it has made in recent years as a teacher training institution. More than one hundred young people have completed its courses and gone into teaching each year for the past two years, and about one hundred and twenty-five teachers will be provided by the institution for service in the public schools next year. The management of the school believes that a great field of service is open before it. Its resources and the best energies of its faculty will be devoted to the accomplishment of the aims which are in view. A public institution can claim public support only as it renders public service. The Fairmont Normal School holds as its supreme aim the serving of the cause of public education through the preparation of better teachers for the public schools.

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fc H5? § - 2 - J A MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT ROSIER © S fliUtli which it is located, will require some professional training of all the teachers that are employed. With longer terms and higher salaries it would not seem an unreasonable requirement that all teachers should have some professional pre- paration for their work. The management of this institution feels that it can be dedicated to no higher form of public service than that of preparing teachers for the public schools. The changed conditions in all departments of our in- dustrial and social life brought about by our entrance into the world war, will bring new responsibilities to all, and this will be especially true of those who direct the work of public education in the future. The methods of instruction and the subject matter which seemed to meet the needs of the past, will not be adequate for the needs of the future. It will no longer be possible for even bright young men and women to go into the public schools as teachers without any professional equipment. Teaching is rapidly becoming a technical art that cannot be practiced by those who have not had some degree of training for it. It is the function of the State Normal School to receive young people who de- sire to teach and to give them that training which will enable them to meet the new requirements. The Fairmont Normal School with its new building and modern equipment and with its prospect for still greater enlargement of its physical plant will be able to meet in a most efficient manner, the greater requirements that will be tnade in teaching during the period following the war. Of the hundreds of young men and women graduating from the high schools in this part of the state, increasingly large numbers should enter the Normal School each year to prepare for teaching. The advantages offered to young people who prepare to teach are improving from year to year. Salai ' ies will be increased, and the standing and influence of teachers in the community will be greater in the future than in the past. The opportunities for real ser- vice are not excelled in any other calling. The authorities of the Normal School urge that young people aspiring to teach, master in a thorough manner the elementary and high school courses in their home communities. This will form a most necessary foundation on which to build a professional Normal Course. The Normal School will aim to broaden the academic knowledge of the student, and at the same time to make him fa- miliar with the technical art of teaching, through the study of psychology, principles of education, general and special methods, school management, and history of education. The time is not distant when no one will be permitted to teach in the public schools who has nol had such professional training.

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