Jefferson High School - J Yearbook (Jefferson, WI)

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PAGE SIX Lighting, seating, decoration. School ground improvement. Essentials of first class schools. Diploma examinations. Playground supervision. Consolidation. Teacher as a social leader in the community. 4. Senior Pedagogy.—One semester. Vfc unit. 1. Elements of Class Technique. a. types of lessons. d. motivation. b. questions. e. lesson planning. c. assignments. 2. Elements of Child Study. a. instinct and capacities, b. individual differences. 3. Laws and Principles of Teaching. a. instinct and capacities. f. attention. b. sense perception. g- association. c. motor activity. h. analysis. d. self activity. i. reasoning. e. interests. j- individual differences. 4. Class Management and Discipline. 5. Practice Teaching-—twenty weeks. y2 unit. Students conduct classes for practice teaching in all grades of the city. The past year every Senior student taught classes in reading, language, spelling, phonics, arithmetic, and geography. In addition two weeks of practice was given in a rural school taken over by the department for this purpose. Practice Class With Training Teachers Studying Trees

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PAGE FIVE TEACHERS’ TRAINING COURSE You teachers and it is a mere truism to say this— you teachers make the whole world your debtor: and of you it can he said, as it can he said of no other profession save the profession of the ministers of the gospel themselves, if you teachers did not do your work well, this Republic would not outlast the span of a generation.”—Theodore Roosevelt. There is no field that offers better opportunities to the high school graduate at the present time, than that of teaching. Whatever disadvantages there may have been in the past, as to low wages and difficulty of obtaining positions. have been obliterated, and the demand is now greater than the supply. The shortage of teachers for rural schools at the present time is alarming. It is practically impossible to find enough teachers to fill the schools. Anyone who takes the course for the training of teachers offered in the high school need have no fear of failing to obtain a position. Because of this shortage wages are greatly improved, until the work of the rural teacher is rapidly being made both attractive and profitable. The teachers’ training course was primarily established to fulfill the requirements of the Wisconsin law. requiring every beginner in the teaching profession, to have had at least one year of professional training or its equivalent. Its specific aim is to train teachers for the rural schools of Jefferson County. Students from other high schools are admitted without a tuition charge, and may complete the work in the senior year, providing they have taken the subjects required in the first three years of the course. Such students are urged, however, to enter at the beginning of the Junior year. t. Junior Professional Reviews. 1 unit. Subjects studied: Reading, phonics, library reading, cataloging, spelling, language, grammar. Work is based on Manual of Elementary Course of Study for the Common Schools of Wisconsin. Text books in these subjects are examined, and observation lessons conducted in the various city grades. 2. Senior Professional Reviews. 1 unit. This class is a continuation of the Junior Reviews class, with the following subjects studied arithmetic, geography, history, civics, agriculture. nature study, music, drawing, penmanship, hygiene, sanitation and physiology, manual training. domestic science. 3. Senior School Management. School Law, School Records, and Rural Economics. 1 unit. Such topics as the following are also discussed and stunied: Rural school program. Heating and ventilation.

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COMMERCIAL COURSE PAOE SEVEN The commercial course aims to give every boy ami girl a practical business education in addition to a training which has more of the cultural value. This course has been in operation for several years, and is far beyond the experimental stage. It has passed inspection by the State Department of Public Instruction- and is by them recognized as one of the strong high school commercial departments in the state. The graduates of this course have no difficulty in obtaining positions as stenographers and bookkeepers both in Jefferson and in neighboring cities. Many of the most desirable commercial positions in the city are now held by graduates of this department. A business man said recently, while discussing one of our graduates in his employ, I am amazed at the range of ability and the efficiency of this student, who came to us direct from school, and without experience.” An effort has been made to keep the work intensely practical. In addition to the technical training in bookkeeping. typewriting and shorthand, an attempt has been made to give the student such a thorough understanding of business methods and principles, business papers and forms, as will enable him to act wisely and intelligently in his later contact with the business world. Besides the basic work in English, History, and Science, graduates of this course are required to take Bookkeeping. Shorthand. Typewriting, Penmanship. Commercial Law and Office Training. The course in Bookkeeping includes both Double and Single Entry. The fundamental principles underlying all accounting methods are emphasized. The business papers used are numerous and the correct form for each is taught. It includes the writing of checks, drafts, invoices, leases, insurance policies, hills of lading, deposit slips, etc. The student thereby gets a wider range of correct business usage than he would probably get in years of contact with the business world. During a part of the course actual banking is done. The work in Stenography includes, besides a technical training In speed in shorthand and touch typewriting, styles in correspondence, composition of business letters, correct use of English, spelling, punctuation, artistic i | J The Comptometer ie a New Figuring Machine Recently Added to Our Equipment.