Hope College - Milestone Yearbook (Holland, MI)

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 19-13 was a very prosperous year for the senior education students, for none of them, particularly elementary teachers, found difficulty in securing positions. Of the twenty- live students eligible for teachers’ certificates this year, only ten were elementary teachers. Of the fifteen secondary education students, ten were English majors! The department of education reorganized and revamped itself this fall, and emerged in the paradoxical situation of having the juniors taking more education and the seniors less. The seniors received additional credit for their practise teaching. Prof. Winter taught the juniors educational psychology on Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays, while on Tuesdays and Thursdays they all studied principles of teaching. Practice teachers in the elementary grades this year taught not just one grade, but several, and their teach- ing was spread throughout the whole year. Both secondary students under Mr. Vander Borgh and elementary students under Miss Hawes took the new problems courses, which were closely correlated with their practice teaching. Garrett Vander Burgh. A.M. Director of Practise Teaching, Egbert Winter, A.M. Professor of Education Caroline Hawes. A.B. Instructor in Education 14