Show I MORE TRAINING URGED FOR COUNTRY TEACHERS CLEVELAND O. O hf APU the rural child is to square deal the schools must do much better In IntIle Inthe tIle the opinIon of oC Etta Etla 0 ChrIstensen director of 01 rural educatIon of the Minnesota State Teachers Teachers' college e. She so told the National Society of College Teachers of oC Education at theIr annual meeting here One year she asserted ill is too short a tune time to mal make e the necessary preparation prep prep- for teachIng In a rural lural school When we compare e tine the qualifications or of rural teaching today with those of oC ten years earB ago we feel that great Improvement has been made said Mrs Christensen and yet et we must do better J if the rural child Is Isto Isto to have hae a square deal The problem is bet oro us of standards to be met by entrants to the rural curricula courses to be pursued durIng the traIning perIod and requIrements to be b met in fn 1 practice teachIng Twp years ears should be tine the minImum for thIs hardest of oC all teachIng jobs The practice teachIng should occur In the second year and should be of 01 two kInds teachIng In the grades rades and teach teach- in in our typical rural schools |