Greenwood High School - Under the Greenwood Tree Yearbook (Springfield, MO)

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they let us peek into The old schoolhouse stands as a symbolic reminder of many memorable years of learn- ing. A teaching laboratory in a small one- room frame building was the foundation for the Greenwood Training School of today. In the fall of 1907 the State Normal took over and rebuilt the model school in the Pickwick Rural School District. It had been used for observation by the private Normal. There were seven grades divided into the pri- mary, intermediate, and grammar depart- ments which were supervised by three teachers of methods from the Normal School. The philosophy of the school was that it would be a model in organization, equip- ment, course of study, and instruction-that it would train children as well as teachers- that beginning teachers would have an op- portunity to observe school work grow in the hands of the most skillful. This sound phil- osophy has remained unchanged through our fifty years of progress. In 1910, the Pickwick School was aban- doned for a small bungalow which was lo- cated on Kingshighway, just outside the campus. We presently know this structure the past. as the music building. It was named Green- wood School in honor of the great Missouri educator, J. M. Greenwood. In 1916 the temporary building was de- clared unsafe and classes were moved to the college building, during which time the bungalow was brought to the campus and thoroughly renovated. Then the intermediate grades returned to the bungalow while the other grades remained in the college build- ing. After three years, in order to allow the junior high school to develop as a separate unit, the separate building was turned over to it, and the grades journeyed again to the college building. When the new building, a of architecture, was occupied school was expanded to include school, and for the first time a complete training school stately piece in 1924, the a senior high all grades of were housed under the same roof. Each of the grades and each high school subject had its own highly trained supervisor. Through the years the Greenwood Training School has stood as a laboratory ready to serve every department of Southwest Missouri State College. Greenwood Training School-1924 .M-...xl -f .Q ...Q .i.i,.,. . .1 W , 1 1 . . . ,. ..... ,..., .,.. .,,,,,.,,, , TW ,saff- - Sl