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REGULATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
GOVERNING ELEMENTARY AND
SPECIAL CERTIFICATES IN VIRGINIA.

These regulations apply only to students desiring to procure license
to teach in Virginia. Students from other States need not be guided
by them in the election of their program of work.

I. ELEMENTARY CERTIFICATES.

• A. Students registering after June 1, 1922, must meet the following
  conditions for certificate.

  • 1. Entrance.

    • a. Graduation from an accredited high school, or

    • b. An accredited private secondary school.

    • c. Graduates of non-accredited high schools who have successfully
      passed a comprehensive examination given by
      the State Board of Education.

    • d. Holders of First Grade Certificates who are more than
      twenty-one years of age and have had at least three
      years of teaching experience after receiving First Grade
      Certificate, may be permitted to enter the course.

  • 2. Requirements.

    Amount of credits required for Elementary Certificate:

     

    College session hours

    15

    Laboratory periods have one-half value.

• B. Distribution of Credits.

  • 1. Academic subjects.

     

    a.

    English, History or Science

    3 session hours

  • 2. Educational subjects.

    • a.

       

      General Education

      3 session hours

      (1) Principle of Teaching; (2) Educational Psychology;
      (3) School Management; (4) Rural School Problems.

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    • b. Health and Physical Education.

         

      (1)	School Hygiene and Physical Inspection of School Children	1 session hour
      (2)	Physical Education	1 session hour

    • c.

         

      Elementary Education	5 session hours
      Includes special methods of teaching school subjects.

  • 3.

     

    Applied Arts

    2 session hours

    a. Music; b. Manual Training; c. Drawing; d. Penmanship.
    Certificates Granted on Partial Course.

    • 1. A Provisional First Grade Certificate will be granted upon
      the presentation of five session hours' credit from a college
      or normal school, three of which must be in Education.

    • 2. A First Grade Certificate will be granted upon the presentation
      of ten session hours' credit from a college or normal
      school, six of which must be in Education, provided, the
      applicant is nineteen years of age, and has had seven
      months' teaching experience.

• B. Old Elementary Courses.

  • 1. Second and Third years will be offered for the last time this
    year—see page 32.

  • 2. No student can register under regulations set up for old elementary
    courses, as outlined.

No candidate for the Elementary Certificate Courses given in the
summer schools of the State institutions will be given any certificate
for completion of less than five college session hours of such course.
This amount of work may be completed in the Summer Quarter of
the University in two terms of six weeks each.