University of North Dakota - Dacotah Yearbook (Grand Forks, ND)

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School of Education and an organized Model High School in connection with it. The University of Toronto, we notice, has just recently completed a building for its Teachers College and has a similar organization and Model high school. Several state universities have recently organized similar schools of Education and have been before their legis- latures for ways and means. The University of North Dakota is at the front. TEACHERE COLLEGE

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TEACHERS COLLEGE DEPARTMEN T whose function was to be the professional preparation of teachers was established at the University by the organizing act, or charter of l883. The department was known up to I905 as the uNormal Department, and extended two years above the completion of a high school curriculum. In 1905 Teachen College was organized as an extension of the Normal Department to a full four-year college curriculum. There had been, up to 1910, in connection with the University what was called e Preparatory Department. In that year practically all of this department was transferred to the Educational Department of Teachers College and transformed into a Model High School to serve as a laboratory for the Department of Education in the way of opportunity for observation and practice, and for the study at first hand of problems in secondary education. This Model high school has a complete corps of teachers chosen on account of their professional preparation and training in their respective lines of high school work. The Model high school is housed in Teachers College building and is under the immediate supervision of Professor C. C. Schmidt. The chief aim and function of Teachers College is the preparation of teachers for secondary and higher education. Special curricula are offered in all subjects taught in high schools, including manual training, domestic science, commercial subjects, music and drawing. Those who complete the four-year curriculum, making one or two subjects, or lines, their majors, receive the degree of Bachelor of Arts and also the Bacheloris Diploma in Education, the latter being the professional instrument and good as a state certificate of the highest class. Those who complete the special two-year curriculum receive the uTeachers Certificate, which is also good in law as a state certificate. The degree of Master of Arts may be secured by those holding the baccalaureate degree from a college of recognized standing, by. pursuing, for one year in residence, a major and two minor subjects The major or minors may be in Education, subject to the rules and regulations of the Committee on Graduate Instruction. The legislature of I909 appropriated $60,000 for a new building for Teachers College. This was ready for occupancy in the fall of l9l0. This new building, located on the new campus just east of Science Hall, is the most beautiful and complete on the University campus. In the basement are the manual training and domestic science departments, the fan-room of a scientific system of ventilation, and an excellent gym- nasium. On the second floor are six recitation rooms with oflices attached, and oflices of the Dean of Teachers College and the Superintendent of the Model high school. On the second Hoor are four recitation rooms, a parlor for the young women of Teachers College, and a beautiful auditorium that will seat about 325 people. On the third floor are the Commercial department, a large room for Art and Design and two other recitation rooms. The interior finish of the building is in oak and the color scheme is simple, restful and artistic. The external architecture is academic Jacobean and will be the type, or standard, for future buildings on the campus. The University of North Dakota is the first state university in this country to realize in practice what they are all now aiming at-a separate building for their

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