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

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Florence M. Sublette, B.S., A.M. A. L. Heer, a. M. A., Ph.D. DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC EDUCATION Since September, 1927, there has been much expansion in this department. Two full- time instructors, one in the College and one in the Training School, aided by part-time instructors in piano and voice, formed the staff of 1927. September, 1928, saw the ad- dition 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 opportunity to offer not oni 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 department 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 chil- dren and thus have a widespread influence throughout all of north-eastern Ohio. TRAINING SCHOOL 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 prsparation for actual 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. 26

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A. O. DeWeese, iM.D. Bektiia L. NixsoN, M.A, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND PllNSICAL EDUCATION The Student Health Service of Kent State College is organized upon the three follow- ing assumptions: 1. That educationalls ' it is now generally recognized that Health is a fundamental fac- tor in training and preparation for citizen- ship since the health of the bo ' and girl materiall ' determines endurance, disposition and attitude, and endurance, disposition and attitude itally alTect happiness and effi- ciency. 2. That in the training and preparation for citizenship the school is as much respon- sible for the preser ation and protection of the child ' s health and de elopment of his ph ' sical efiicienc ' and well-being as it is in the guidance and training of his mental attainments. 3. That an abundance of radiating health and physical well-being is of more import- ance to the class room teacher than in an intlividual in any other profession, since an example in well-being is an incentive of greatest importance in Health Education, anil an unhealth ' teacher cannot be in com- plete sympathy with the attitude and dis- position of live, healthy, out-door-minded bo s and girls. DEPARTMENT OV- IIO.ME ECONOMICS The students welcomed the return of Bertha L. Nixson last year, head of the de- partment, who had been absent on a ear ' s leave which included study at Columbia and a summer ' s travel and study in Europe. .Miss Nona Isabel Jordan is the clothing specialist. She is a graduate of Drake Uni- ersity and Columbia. While the primar ' purpose of the depart- ment is the training of teachers of home economics we are anxious to serve the ever increasing 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 sponsor- ed a practice house for the major and minor students of home economics. Six students ami a faculty representative enjo ' the com- forts of home along with its responsibilities. 25

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C. F. RuMOLD. A.B., LL.B. G. I Iazei. Swan, B.S. DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES The Department of Physical Sciences at Kent State College offers in regular courses 102 term hours in Chemistry and 3U term hours in Ph. sics. In addition special courses are arranged for students who have the necessary preparation for profitably pur- suing the work. Students who are working off pre-medical or engineering requirements here find exactly the work they need. The earlier courses are presented with emphasis on the method of teaching these fundamen- tal sciences. It is intended to gi e in these courses the training in the presentation of the facts and principles which will equip one for successfull ' 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 tqui alent to similar courses in the colleges and universities. Eaboratory facilities are unexcelled and much emphasis is given to individual laboratory work. KINDERGARTEN-PR I. 1AR DEPARTMENT It is ery gratifying to announce that the Kindergarten-Primar ' Department now has twenty-two students registered for three and four year work. All of these students are acti ' e members of the Kindergarten-Primary Club which was organized in February, 192 ' ). Ihe aim of this group is to help in ever ' a pos- sible the Nurser - - Kindergarten - Primary causes or the work with oung children. The club has a number of interesting plans for the ' ear to render ser ice. This student club is a branch of Ihe In- te ' lational Kindergarten I nion and is one ol ' few student branches belonging to the international body. Last May the club sent two delegates to the international meetings at Rochester, New ' ork. This year it is sending one to Memphis, Tennessee. It is the hope of the department that an- other instructor ma - be added soon so that all the courses of the department nia ' be given to keep this fine, earnest group of twenty-two young women. 27