Kent State University - Chestnut Burr Yearbook (Kent, OH)

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t an abund veil-being is teacher thar mce of radiating health and of more importance to the in an individual in any other profession, since an example in well-being is an in- centive of greatest importance in Health Education, and an unhealthy teacher cannot be in complete sym- pathy with the attitude and disposition of live, heal- thy, out-door-minded boys and girls. DEPARTMENT OF HOME ECONOMICS Bertha L. Nixson, M.A. The students welcomed the return of Ber- tha L. Nixon, head of the department, who has been absent on a year ' s leave which in- cluded study at Columbia and a summer ' s travel and study in Europe. Miss Nona Isabel Jordan is the new cloth- ing specialist. She is a graduate of Drake University and Columbia. While the primary purpose of the depart- ment is the training of teachers of home ec- onomics we are anxious to serve the ever in- creasing numbers of general students who are becoming more and more interested in the various phases of home economics. Sev- eral new courses have been introduced and a new minor for the general students has been added to the curriculum. Through the efforts of the students in the department the administration has sponsored a practice house for the major and minor students of home economics. Six students and a faculty representative enjoy the com- forts of home along with its responsibilities.

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Edith Belle Rowlen, A.M. What have been the findings of the Mod- ern Foreign Language Study? To stress greatly the advisability of having the em- phasis in teaching placed upon training stu- dents to read as soon as possible. To urge this necessity even more in case the language is begun in college. Since the work of the French Department is planned to conform to these principles, it is possible very early in the course for students to begin to appreciate the spirit of France by seeing for themselves how national traits, charact eristics and problems are viewed by some of the literary geniuses of that coun- try. Further progress increases the number of these points of interest and comparison. Time honored and modern writings open up new fields and interpretations of history, literature, science, art and travel. So one may dwell at home, but live beyond the seas. DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY David Olson, M.Sc, A.B. How big is your world? How far does your imagination soar? How deep does your understanding penetrate? To what ex- tent is your mind unshackled from super- stition and prejudice? The answer to these and many questions like them are functions of your geographic study and reading. Even to know where the places one reads of are, what their climate is and how they are peo- pled, is something; but in its wider mean- ing, as the science which aims at the ex- planation of the adjustment of man to his surroundings, there is no problem in past history or of present politics and economics which cannot be elucidated by the applica- tions of the principles of geography.

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September 1927 there has been on in this department. Two full-time instructors, Te in the College and one in the Training School, ded by part-time instructors in piano and voice, the staff of 1927. September 192 8 saw the addition of one instructor. Mr. Steere; and with September 1929 came two more, Miss Littlejohn and Mr. Metcalf. The present staff is composed of five- full-time instructors and a part-time instructor in voice. One room was used by the department in 1927. Since then we have grown until four rooms are necessary to provide for our activities. With new teachers and new equipment has come the op- portunity to offer not only a major and a minor in the department but to take our places alongside some of our sister colleges in offering a four-year degree course in Music Education. In this one year more than a dozen students have enrolled in the depart- ment for these advanced courses. We realize that with this growth come new responsibilities. May we ever do more to make music a vital part in the life of this community, and through teachers who are keenly alive, may reach the hearts of children and thus have a widespread influence throughout all of north-eastern Ohio. TRAINING SCHOOL A. L. Herr, A.B., M.A., Ph.D. The training department at present is re- sponsible for the courses in observation and in practice teaching. It is the purpose of the course in observation to integrate the various principles taught in psychology, classroom-management, and methods, and give them meaning by observing teaching and learning. It also aims to give the pros- pective teacher an opportunity to use these principles in analyzing teaching and learn- ing in the class room as a preparation for ac- tual teaching. It is here that the prospec- tive teacher attempts to apply principles in actual teaching and learning situations. Here the teacher is directed in acquiring those class room procedures which are ef- fective in teaching. Not all of the practice teaching is being done in the campus training school. At present the elementary schools in the City of Kent and the Franklin Township schools are being used for practice teaching. This year a supervisor has been added to the training school faculty who supervises the practice teaching done in off campus schools.