Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-01-03 | Page 75 | State Normal School

It f State Normal School die:'.?!' , W-S". : The Normal school is tho educational iv8:'v , laboratory for the teaching profession lnf "1 " !? 1,10 state of Utah, in the samo bcusc .ft id'-' tbat the Agricultural college is for the Hie Agriculture of tho slate or tho School of Alines for tho mining industry. ! i- ess -.! tho intormountuiu Normal school that cli. is preparing teachers for their vocation- :c1 1 " w the Fchool of education of the Uiu- H . ' i vsitv of Utah. It is the only institii- u' Jl. Uon o"1 this stato legally sanctioned to to Aitfj Prepare teachers for the state public dl- $ wCoo!s- Iu the last two years it has Wl'v tT 'au&ted 335 trained teachers. For on.' M yobng men and women who have com- cc -i i ploled a high school courso it provides . l $ nr0ai opportuniticH for training in or J I feacliing. The official certificates which of'' '1 bestows arc legal Hccdsos to teach in tcII jf tue schools of tho stato withoul exami- IW.'ci; f nation. " -4i k Oertlilcatou raid Diploma, jin --1 . iflt- jji Students who have completed their lt3 ;.. high school courso may receive: ' I Irr oue year '5 work at the State "ri-'1' formal school a teacher's five-year cer- iVh. tificate. -; i -2- For to yeaxB' work at Ihc Stato rcll - hi N'ormal school, a grammcr grade di- Th ' . rj ploina. 3 For four vears' work at tho State Normal school, "a college degree either B. 8. or s. Vj., according to tho sub-iecls sub-iecls plccted and a high school diploma, 'which is a lifo license to teach without examination iu any of the public schools. . . Tho training school, in which the Normal students first practice the art of teaching, is one of tho best equipped training schools in the country. A secondary training school is maintained, main-tained, in which prospective high school teachers re.coivo actual experience in the teaching of high school subjects. For ihoso who desiro to specialise in music, art, phvsical education, manual training, domestic science, art, reading, literature, natural study o: elementary agriculture, elect ivo courses are provided pro-vided leading to special certificates. Summer school normal courses arc "iven each year, which enable teachers, without giving up their regular work, to receive legal certificates by taking prescribed studies at the university during dur-ing tho summer. All courses, departments, muaoimio, laboratories, libraries and other fscili-tks fscili-tks of the university aro open to gvoit a Indent of the Slate Normal school. "There are three great, fully equipped normal schools in the 'United SLatcs. Oun of these is wost of tho Mississippi the Stato Normal of the University of irtnh." Theso are the words of J. G. Honn. the editor of duration, n mnn of wide experience and hign reputation repu-tation in .school mntteirt, .Similar words in recognition of the excellence, of tho work of tho Normal school havo been spoken bv many of thy foremost educators educa-tors of the country. Among these may be mentioned Dr. .lames S. Hughes of Canada, Dr. John Dewey, formerlv nt Iho head of tho department of education educa-tion in tho Chicago university; Dr. 0. Stanley Hull, president of Clark university uni-versity Professor Georgo Vincent, Iho head of tho Chautauqua university; Dr. Su7.7.alo of Columbia university and many others. Tho demand in Utah and adjoining stales for graduates, of Iho Normal school far exceeds the supply. Between three and four hundred new teachers aro emploj'cd annually iu tho elementary schools of our state. The demand for high school teachers, teachers of spe-j spe-j cial subjects, supervisors and principals i is constantly increasing and is at present pres-ent far ahead of the sunplj-. Wuges aro steadily increasing, the work of teaching is becoming more certain cer-tain and better systematized, and on tho wholo the profession ia moro dosir-ablo dosir-ablo than heretofore.