Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1918 — Examinations For Teachers To Be Hold February 23. [ARTICLE]

Examinations For Teachers To Be Hold February 23.

The annual examination for professional teacher’s license, which is also the first part of the examination for life license to teach in lUr diana public schools, will be held in nine Hoosier cities Feb. 23, it was announced by Horace Ellis, state.-superintendent of public instruction, yesterday. The tests will be given in the offices of the following school officials; Indianapolis, superintendent of public instruction office in (ho State House; Fort Wayne, Evansville and Valparaiso, superintendent of county schools office; Terre Haute, president of the State Normal school office; Lafayette, president of Purdue university office; Jeffersonville, superintendent of county schools office; Bloomington, president of Indiana university office.

The professional license i» valid for eighty years in any public school of the state for all subjects taught except vocational and provocational subjects. The examination covers algebra, civil government, American literature, science of education and any two subjects out of the following: Physics, botany, German, French, Spanish and Latin. To ibe eligible for this examiner tion the applicant must have held two thirty-six months’ common school licenses, in addition the applicant must have had at least forty-eight months’ successful experience as a teacher. Licenses are granted to those who make a general average of 85 per cent and do not Tall below 75 per cent In any subject. An applicant whose average is 85 "per cent and the grade in a single subject is below 75 per cent has the privilege of being conditioned and removing the condition at the next annual examination. —There is no fee for this examination. Those who have passed this examination successfully anay proceed with the second part of the examination, successfully passing of which entitles the applicant to a life license. The second part of the examination will be given some time in April, the exact date to be determined by the state board of education.