Medina County High Schools - Mecoan Yearbook (Medina, OH)

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y ffi The. Me€oonn £fi Maude M. Haley County Normal Director The County Normal The chief aim of the county Normal is to train the rural teacher. The rural school code of 1914 raised the standards of teaching. The County Normal was established in order that these requirements could be met. Its main purpose was to train teachers for the rural schools. The first year of Normal training can be completed in the county Normal. Before the establishment of the county Normal very few rural teach- ers had received training. The object of the law providing for the County Normal was to bring the training near the prospective rural teachers. Having as an entrance requirement a first grade high school diploma. A number of undesirable persons entered the Normal training schools. In order to eliminate the lowest in intelligence of high school graduates a bill was passed by the legislature and went into effect in August 1923, re- quiring an examination for a certificate under Section 7832-2 or rather, gives the Director of Education the power to require such examination. Since that time entrance examinations have been thereby, raising the standard of intelligence of teachers to be trained. Content examinations have also been given during the year which again mean, that the teacher must know his subject. It is the ambition of Hon. Vernon M. Riegel, Director of Education, Mr. T. Howard Winters, Inspector of Teacher Training and others vitally interested in the training of teachers, that those who teach should “have the natural ability, knowledge and training necessary for competency.” It is the hope of those persons interested in the County Normal train- ing that the standards may be such that children need not suffer from incompetent teachers. Ten

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4 log cabin cu i h fino uu in donas, uncomforjablc benches and a fieua ujell vnorn text books constituted the first school in the county Modern school buildings rujcll light- ed, ventilated., and equipped as uudi as a proficient teaching staff help mold the student ofi today into an efficient citizen .

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T fee. Mecooin S3 Medina County Normal Bottom Row Norma Crocker Granger Lila Orcutt Granger Mary Godfrey Granger Nettie Brown Granger Ethel Clement Medina Esther Freeman Medina Ethel Smith York Lucile Joachim Wadsworth Top Row Elva Brant Brunswick Maude Evans Brunswick Florence Mellert York Mae Sheerlein Medina Lura Pelton Medina Lena Reutter Brunswick Clarice Thompson Granger Esther Gibbs Brunswick The Curriculum First Semester Psychology 3 Arithmetic and Methods 4 Geography and Methods 2 Nature Study, Agriculture and Methods 1 or 2 Primary Reading 2 Hygiene 2 Industrial Arts and Drawing 1 Music i 2 Physical Education 4 Practice Teaching and Obser- vation 2 Second Semester Principles and Methods 3 History and Methods 2 History and Methods 2 Nature Study, Agriculture and Methods 1 or 2 Rural Life and Education 2 Management 2 Industrial Arts and Drawing 1 Music „ 1 2 Physical Education 1.A Practice Teaching and Obser- vation 2