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

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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES C. F. RuMOLD, A.B., LL.B. The Department of Physical Sciences at Kent State College offers in regular courses 102 term hours in Chemistry and 30 term hours in Physics. In addition special courses are arranged for students who have the nec- essary preparation for profitably pursuing the work. Students who are working off pre- medical or engineering requirements here find exactly the work they need. The earli- er courses are presented with emphasis on the method of teaching these fundamental sciences. It is intended to give in these courses the training in the presentation of the facts and principles which will equip one for successfully teaching these sciences in the high schools. Those students who are looking forward to careers in the applied sciences will find in the more advanced courses work equivalent to similar courses in the colleges and universities. Laboratory facilities are unexcelled and much emphasis is given to individual laboratory work. THE KINDERGARTEN-PRIMARY DEPARTMENT G. Hazel Swan, B.S. It is very gratifying to announce that the Kindergarten-Primary Department now has twenty-two students registered for three and four year work. All of these students are active members of the Kindergarten-Primary Club which was organized in February 1929. The aim of this group is to help in every way pos- sible the Nursery - Kindergarten - Primary causes or the work with young children. The club has a number of interesting plans for the year to render service. This student club is a branch of The In- ternational Kindergarten Union and is one of a few student branches belonging to the international body. Last May the club sent two delegates to the international meetings at Rochester, New York. This year it is sending one to Memphis, Tennessee. It is the hope of the department that an- other instructor may be added soon so that all the courses of the department may be given to keep this fine, earnest group of twenty-two young women.

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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.

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Margaret Dunbar, B.L. During the last week of August 1929 the library of Kent State College was moved from the Administration Building where it had had its home for twelve years to the new David Ladd Rockwell Building which had been especially designed and built to house it and to provide a pleasant place in which it might be used. The building has proved well fitted to the purpose for which it was planned and dedicated; its beauty is a joy to every stu- dent; its proportions, colors, ample light, heat, ventilation, and noiseless floors unob- trusively give comfort and pleasure to every- one who uses it. The library, now numbering over forty thousand volumes, is growing to meet the new requirements of the College and with adequate appropriations which will be made from time to time will be able to meet the needs of students in all courses and to sup- ply also recreational reading. DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY H. A. Cunningham, B.S., M.A. There are many big themes in biology; one of which is the Behavior of Organ- isms . Human education, since it deals with ways and means of modifying the be- havior of conscious human beings, is really one subdivision of biology. Every one should be interested in making a superior adjust- ment to his environment; in adjustmg his environment to himself; and in understand- ing, and influencing, at times the behavior of others. The prospective teacher is immediately in- terested in biology as a fundamental aid in the solution of classroom behavior problems and as an introduction to such subjects as hygiene, nature study, physical education, psychology, and child study. Biology is prevocational to such other occupations as agriculture, dentistry, medicine, forestry, etc., because these occupations are based up- on fundamental laws and principles of bio- logy.