Sharon High School - Mirror Yearbook (Sharon, PA)

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ADMINISTRATION Each student in Sharon High School is influenced by the school as a unit. Every experience that he has here tends to create new attitudes or to change the attitudes which he now holds. Therefore the problem of admin- istration must recognize this fact whatever plan is to be developed. The desirable experiences which the student is to have should be organized and focused upon definite objectives, In a haphazard system, experiences may counteract or inhibit one another, so that the elforts of administration may be nullified and the results become those of chance. Since the administration of a school takes in the whole school it must be organized on the principle of the division of labor. ln our own school all of the workers, which includes students, teachers, caretakers, office force and principal, are educators. Each is a factor in the plan to secure desired educa- tional products. Administration, to many, means the duties of the superintendent or the principal, and to many teaching means the work of those in the classroom only. It is common to hear someone say that he is preparing for teaching or for administrative work. Administration is related to teaching, and teach- ing to administration, so that they may not be separated. To achieve this co-ordination there must be an intelligent and scientific arrangement of courses, schedules, and other parts of the program. Still more important functions are to secure and train the teaching staff and to supervise the instruction itself. The problem of discipline is a problem of morale. It is not possible Cby police methodsj to devise a plan of restraint which will cause the school to operate automatically. XYhen teachers, students and executives understand and believe in a plan based on a sound philosophy, and co-ordinate their ef- forts to achieve the intended results, then discipline merges into creative guidance. 'llhe technique used in administration will depend largely upon one's understanding of such terms as ability. adjustment, performance, behaviour and the significance of these terms in the process which is employed to ar- rive at the goals which have been set. The school must be well organized, but the purpose of the organization should be to stimulate and guide the student. so that he may in the com- pletest sense adjust his abilitiese to the physical, social and spiritual world. It is our problem to take the modern school with its large enrollment and changed curriculum, and on a large scale organize it to do what was formerly done by the small unit under wise leadership. Last but what is really our first concern, is not curriculum, nor ability, nor equipment, but rather effective teaching and effective teachers cannot be secured except by culling out from the mass of those who have been given a license to teach, those whose training and capacities have enabled them to understand the underlying problems of society and whose psychology and method are such as to enable them to make the most of all of the material which comes to their workshop. P. A. JONES.

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Nha, Srovicu MR. Ciiiziuiau Miss Kliimis Miss Ilxvics l kllss Fll,EIi Rllss limi Miss H,xN1e.xil.xN Commercial Department Every cowboy, before he is recognized as such by his eoniracles, must pass through a periocl ol training during' which he is known as 2: tenclerfoot. Every ettective activity requires training of soine importance. Our Commercial Department has an important place in the school curriculum. It attempts to introduce the iundainentals of business. Not only does it function as an elementary course leading to an advanced study of coin- nierce, but it offers an extraortlinary introcluction to the necessary responsibilities and social aspects of citizenship. The Connnercial Department has establishecl its merits. The teaching' staff is composed of graduates from the leading' eonnncrcial colleges. The subjects included in this clepzirtinent are: Typewriting I and II, Stenography I and Il, Bookkeeping I and II, Business Aritlnnehtic, Coinnierclal Law, Commercial Geogra- phy, Salesinanslnp, lyconomics, and junior Business Training. GEORGJC C. STOVICR IfRANCl5SIf1.-XYIQS ILS. State Teachers College, Graduate XVork ILS. Grove City College, Business Arith- at University of Pittslnireli, Typing 1, Book- metic. km' f . tt'l le U RUTH r1L12ic STANLEY CLIRRIER Grove City College, Bookkeeping I. ILS., L.L.B. Grove City Cipllieel, Ycqtipigstowvii QXIARGAREQ' ELK School of Law Ancient ant IN em ieva istory, I, S Yew Yom- Univtygit . V H . X I, AA ' I -. y, Ohio Northern Xfzhfflfllal Llvlu' Qommuudl Law' BARS Llniversity, Commercial Geography, Stenograf It 'll' phy I. FIQEDA KERNIS M,'XRC.'XRE'1' A. IIANRAHAN B.S. State Teachers College, Graduate XVorlc H.S. State Teachers College, University of at University of l,lftSlHll'Hl1, 'llypinpg I and 11, ljltlSlHlll',L1l'l, Stenography l, Bookkeeping' II, Slwrtlumd II. beneral Business Science.