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Requirements for an Elementary Certificate
I. Entrance Requirements to the Course.
1. Graduation from an accredited high school, or
2. An accredited private secondary school.
3. Graduates admitted upon less than the above requirements cannot
apply for a certificate of any type until satisfactory high school
credits have been placed before the State Department.4. Holders of First Grade Certificate may be permitted to enter the
course. Such students may receive an Elementary Certificate
upon presentation of credits but cannot secure credit for a normal
diploma until the necessary high school units have been presented.
Note.—No credits on this course can be allowed those who have had normal
training in high school. Credits secured for education in
high schools can only be accepted as high school units.
II. Distribution of Credits.
15 session-hours, selected as follows:
Session-hours | ||
1. | English, History and Social Science | 4 to 5 |
2. | Education—General | 2 to 3 |
3. | Health and Physical Education | 2 |
4. | Elementary Education, including Special Methods of teaching school subjects |
3 to 5 |
5. | Applied Arts | 2 to 3 |
III. Courses.
1.
Session-hours Academic Subjects 4 to 5 Required: (a) English s41, s42, or sA1-I 2 (b) History sB3-I, or sB3-II, or sB3-III 1 Elect 1 or 2 session-hours: (c) English—any college course in English 1 (d) History—any college course in History 1 (e) Science—any college course in Science 1 2.
General Education 2 to 3 Required: (a) Educational Psychology—Education sB2-I 1 (b) Education sB2-II or Education sB2-III 1 Elect One: (c) Education sB3-III—Measurement in Secondary
Education1 (d) Education sB4-I 1 (e) Education sB4-II 1 (f) Education sB3-I or Education sB3-II 1 3.
Health and Physical Education 2 (a) Education sB12-I—School Hygiene and Physical
Inspection of Children1 (b) Physical Education s94 and s92 or s93 1 4.
Elementary Education 3 to 5 (a) For Primary Teachers—
(1) Education s36—The Teaching of Reading in
Primary Grades, or(2) Education s32—Child Literature, or (3) Education s38—Methods in Language and Spelling—Primary
Grades2 (b) For Grammar Grade Teachers—
(1) Education s37—The Teaching of Reading in
Grammar and Upper Grades, or(2) Education s43—Methods in Language and Literature,
or(3) Education s46—General Geography 2
Required:
40(1) Education s31—Nature Study,
(2) Education s45—The Teaching of Arithmetic,
(3) Education s42—Methods in Civics and History,
(4) Education s35—The Teaching of Geography.
Elect 1 or 2 session-hours:
5.
Applied Arts 2 to 3 (a) For Primary Teachers—
(1) Music,
(2) Manual Training,
(3) Industrial and Fine Arts,
(4) Penmanship.
(b) For Grammar Grade Teachers—
(1) Music,
(2) Manual Arts,
(3) Industrial and Fine Arts,
(4) Penmanship.
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