Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-31 | Page 11 | Reading and Study Courses Selected

HUG 10 STUDY COURSESSELEGTED State Board of Education Adopts Curricula for School Teachers. Reading and study courses to be completed com-pleted by holders of county teRcher 's certificates for the year 1917-1918 were adopted at a meeting of the state board of education held yesterday afternoon ; in the office of Dr. E. G. Gowans, state superintendent of public instruction. The courses must be completed during the school year in order to qualify for the renewal of teachers ' certificates. The course includes ethics of citizenship citi-zenship and community civics, two hours of credit each, as prescribed subjects, sub-jects, and permits those who take the course to elect two additional hours from the following: Rural sociology, rural economics, Ajnerican history, the teaching of social sciencos and school administration based on the Salt Lake City survey report. At least six hours of credit must be obtained. The board decided that after July 3, 1918, a teacher, to receive junior nigh school certification, must have completed com-pleted three years of standard college or normal school work or its equivalent above the high school, including the same amount of training in education required for high school certification and that in order for a school district to participate in the state hih school fund for ninth grade pupils in junior high school after July 1, 1918, such ninth grade pupils must be under the instruction of teachers holding at least the junior high school certification here defined. With a view of standardizing normal echool work' in the state the board ap- -proved as a tentative standard the normal nor-mal school curricula published by the Carnegie Foundation for tho Advancement Advance-ment of Teaching. This standard is to be modified as experience may make advisable especially as changes may be found necessary in tho trial of the plan by the school of education of the University Uni-versity of Utah. In this scheme the primary curriculum curri-culum provides in the first year for courses in introduction to teaching, psychology psy-chology and primary methods; English, biology, school and personal hygiene, library work, children 's literature ana reading and voice traininc; handwriting, handwrit-ing, music, physical training and games and industrial arts.