Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1907 — EFFECT OF A NEW LAW [ARTICLE]

EFFECT OF A NEW LAW

Teachers Must Take Instruction In Some Recognized Training School Before Next Year. —— WILL GO TO SUMMER SCHOOLS Many Will Combine Vacation Pleasurea With Schooling at Winona Lake —Prominent Educational Workers on the Teaching Force—Schools in Session Six Weeks. Owing to a law passed by the last legislature, a large number of Indiana school teachers will go into summer training schools this year that they may be prepared for the enforcement of the new measure, which becomes operative in 1908. The law requires that before a person can begin the profession of teaching he must have twelve weeks of instruction in a recognized training school. Teachers already in the calling may obtain an increase in salary by taking similar instruction in a training school. A teacher or a beginner may under the law take six weeks of this training this year and six more during the summer of 1908. '•For this reason many teachers are expected to take the first six weeks of training this year. The Winona summer schools at Winona Lake have been organized that teachers may begin preparations for the„new law. These schools will be in session for six weeks beginnnig July 8, but in 1908 it is the intention to have the schools at the lake open for twelve weeks. Next year the lines of training as mapped out by the State Board of Education will be followed, and this year the instruction will be along normal lines which teachers’ training schools have been following, and under which they may have the advantages of the law. C. M. McDaniel, superintendent of the city schools at Hammond, is principal of the Winona summer schools, and the associate principal la Mrs. Eliza Blaker, president of the Teachers’ College at Indianapolis. Hundreds of young teachers have received training for their profession under the guidance of Mrs. Blaker, both in her school at Indianapolis and at Winona Lake. In the summer schools a number of instructors will assist her. ___

Teachers will probably go to Winona Lake in larger number than usual for the further reason that there they can combine a vacation with their school work, for the musical and other programs of entertainment offered py Wlonna Assembly will be open to them. Winona Lake also offers a teacher who has been in a schoolroom for eight or nine months many outdoor diversions on the water, in the beautiful park and in the deep woods. Many eminent lecturers and ministers will he on the Winona program, and much of what will be offered in the way of entertainment will correlate with the summer school work.

Colleges and high schools will be represented in the teaching force of the Winona schools. The normal department, in which teachers will be especially interested, is in the charge of Mrs. Blaker, who directs kindergarten primary work. C. O. Hoyt of the, Michigan State Normal, will have supervision of the intermediate and grammar grades of the normal training. A good deal of attention will be given to instructing teachers in the duties of a rural school, and this department will be in charge of George Tapy, superintendent of Whitley county- A I. E. Neff of the South Bend high school, will be the teacher of history and civics, and the other departments and the instructors in charge will be as follows: Physiography, E. E. Ramsey of the Fort Wayne high school; expression and physical education, Jennie Ray Ormsby of Indianapolis; arts and crafts, Ellen Iglehart of Chicago, who will have a number of assistants; public school drawing, Roda E. Selleck, of Shortridge high school, Indianapolis; modern languages, Prof. E. J. Fluegel, of Purdue. University; French and Spanish, Charlton Andrews, of the State College of Washington; classical languages, Prof. W. D. Ward of Occidental College, Los Angeles; astronomy, a new department, C. W. Cogshall, of Indiana University.

Instructors from the various Winona winter schools will be in the summer school teaching force, including' the following: English, Frank C. Tilden, of Winona Agricultural Institute: mathematics, W. R. Woodmansee, and physics and chemistry, L. F. Smith, both of Winona Academy for Boys; manual training, W. C. Smith, of the Technical Institute at Indianapolis; agriculture, W. C. Palmer, Winona Agricultural Institute; music, H. C. Owens, of the Winona Conservatory of Music;* domestic science, Florence M. Gibson, of Winona Park School for Young. Women. The Indiana Public Library Commission will again conduct its training school for librarians. Chalmers Hadley will be the director, Merles Hoagland will be dean, and there will be a number of instructors and lecturers. The biological station of Indiana Unfc versity will again be under the direction of Prof. Carl Eigenmann. Nature study, because of the unusual opportunities to study birds, flowers, plant and tree life, is one of the popular features of the Winona summer schools, appealing to many persons who do not enter any other department. The instructor in the nature workswill be Prof. John M. Coulter of the University at Chicago.