Northwest Missouri State University - Tower Yearbook (Maryville, MO)

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DEPARTMENT CDF EDUCATICDN 4 I-I. R. DIETERICH MARY KEITH DORA B. SMITH CHLoE MILLIKAN L. G. SOMERVILLE A. H. CooPER MARGARET FRANKEN KATHERINE FRANKEN ELIZABETH WHITE Not in picture-MR. HOMER T. PHILLIPS, Clmirnmn of Deparzmenr. Miss GRACE M. SHEPHERD. Teaching is a fine art and a science. The Department of Education in our Teachers' College develops an appreciation of teaching as an art and a science. To be an efficient teacher an individual must be well grounded in the funda- mental principles upon which all teaching is based. The Department of Educa- tion inducts the student into the philosophy of education and the principles out of which methods arise. The Department of Education gives the future teacher a knowledge of the nature of children-their capacities and interests-and the principles of learning, so that teaching may be done easily and effectively on the child's level. In the Department of Education the student teachers learn to adapt content subjects to the abilities and the needs of the pupilsg to provide effective learning situationsg to be intelligently criticalg to obtain an under- standing of the principles of school administration, and of supervision of E181 i

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I 'E IRD IDT of .th in ed 53 its gh d O 1- S i- 1! DEPARTMENT CDE CQMMERCE AND BUSINESS ADMINISTEATICDN The Department of Commerce and Business Administration has as its primary motive the training of teachers of the commercial subjects. Its second- ary motive is to prepare for the business world students desiring such training. In order to carry out the first objective, the department offers both a major and a minor, and those students who complete the major are prepared to handle a full-time position in any first-class high school. A major is offered in Business Administration and Secretarial Training for those who want to enter the business world. Minors are also offered in these two fields. The department is also prepared to offer a Business Administration on an A. B. degree. ' Every effort is made by the department to place its graduates. In placing those who wish to teach, it cooperates with the Department of Education, and in addition maintains a placement bureau to aid those who wish to find places in the business World. DR. HENRY M. ALEXANDER MINNIE B- JAMES HUGH G. WALES COMMERCE STUDENT l17I if

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lk DEPARTMENT CDF EDUC!-XTIGN instructiong he discovers the tea laborers, the children, and the community. In a teachers' college, the center around which all activities revolve is the laboratory school. Our college has a well manned laboratory school, admin- istered and supervised by people specially trained for their work. In the laboratory school the future teacher applies under close supervision the principles, the philosophies, and the methods he has learnedg he is taught to study children first hand and to apply his knowledge of psychology of child and of subject matterg he is taught to analyze situations and to apply correct psychological and pedagogical principles to the solution of classroom problems. ln the laboratory school he fully realizes that he must make continual profes- sional growth. I i 7 l The College Higb Srbool Study Hall A Par! of lbe Elemenlfzry Training School U91 l it l cher's relation to his superior officers, his co-