Jefferson High School - J Yearbook (Jefferson, WI)

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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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PAGE FOUR COURSES OF STUDY The basis of every course of study outlined on the following pages is English. History and Mathematics. These form the foundation of an education along any line of work and lead in importance in all courses. English includes the study of reading, written and oral composition, letter writing and spelling. At least three years of this work is required for graduation. Mathematics includes the study of arithmetic, algebra, geometry and bookkeeping. Two units of the above are required for graduation. Next to English the subject of History in undoubtedly the most important as a basic study. It is the greatest humanizing subject offered in any course. Two units of this work are required of every student, one in American History and one in European, including the history of Ancient and Modern Europe. Languages are not required, hut the study of Latin is offered. Latin has its chief value in its bearing upon the English language; about two-thirds of our English words have descended from the Latin, which the old Romans used to speak, and we have many expressions which have come down without any changes at all. Latin is valuable as a basis for the study of other languages and is helpful in certain professions as law, medicine and engineering. It also gives one a greater understanding and appreciation of literature, art, and Roman history. No modern course of study is complete without Science. To this end some science is ottered in each year. One year's work in each of the following subjects is offered: Biology, General Science, Chemistry and Physics. Thus a boy or girl interested in any line of work is given ample opportunity to develop it. Laboratories and apparatus are supplied in sufficient quantities to allow individual work by every student.

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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