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VIRGINIA STATE CERTIFICATES.
Note.—Teachers outside of Virginia are not limited in the choice
of their courses to the conditions under which Virginia certificates
are issued, unless they desire to teach in Virginia and apply for a
license issued in this State. In this case only state certificates from
other states issued by a State Superintendent or a State Board of
Examiners, and approved in advance by the Department of Public
Instruction of Virginia, will be recognized as a proper basis for professional
work.
Teachers from other states will receive credit for all work done at
the University Summer School in accordance with the certificate regulations
of those States from which they come.
The Virginia certificates with which the courses of study at the
University Summer School are immediately concerned are the following:
The Summer School Professional Certificate—Primary Grade.
The Summer School Professional Certificate—Grammar Grade.
The Summer School Professional Certificate—Advanced Grade.
The Summer School Professional Certificate—For High School Teachers.
The following general regulations of the State Board of Education
must be fulfilled by all applicants before they can enter upon
the work for the Summer School Professional Certificate, advanced
grade, grammar grade or primary grade. For conditions for entering
upon the work leading to Summer School Certificate—For High
School Teachers, see "Summer School Professional Certificate for
High School Teachers" page 23 (old course).
"Summer School Professional Certificate."—The holder of a first
grade certificate issued in accordance with the provisions of section
31 of the circular of the Department of Public Instruction
on certification of teachers—(see below) or by the State Board
of Examiners, or the holder of a Virginia First Grade High School
certificate who has had at least five months of actual teaching experience
before entering upon the work prescribed for a Summer
Professional Certificate under the terms and conditions hereinafter
stated. This certificate shall continue in force for seven years and
may be renewed for a similar period from time to time as provided
in section 38 of Form E—19—Department of Public Instruction.
"If necessary, the certificate which entitles a teacher to enter upon
the course of study provided for a Summer School Professional Certificate
may be revived or extended for one year from time to time,
provided the holder completes successfully that portion of the professional
work prescribed for the year during which the extension
is applied for, provided that no certificate which has expired shall
be revived for more than one year upon the basis of completing any
one year of professional work.
"The certificate which entitles the holder to enter upon the course
of study herein outlined must be filed with and approved by the conductor
of the summer school before the applicant may be registered
and admitted to classes.
Courses leading to the Summer School Professional Certificate
shall be offered only in a school conducted at a registered college or
normal school in Virginia and in out-of-state schools whose professional
courses have been approved and registered by the State Board
of Education; and an applicant for this certificate must make at least
75 per cent on class standing and examination on the subjects required
for the certificate. The work must be completed within a
period of five years from the date of beginning if taken in summer
term of four weeks each, or in four years if taken in summer terms
of six weeks each, and shall cover at least three terms of four weeks
each, or two terms of six weeks each, occupying a minimum of 300
recitation periods of at least forty minutes each, provided that courses
of college grade shall occupy a minimum of 180 recitation periods of
at least sixty minutes each.
(a) The course for a Summer School Professional Certificate.—For Primary
Grades, must embrace the following: Principles of teaching,
with special emphasis on how to study, hygiene, drawing, primary
industrial work, music and games; primary methods in reading, language,
arithmetic, nature study and geography, observation work and
practice teaching.
This certificate entitles the holder to teach only in the elementary
schools.
(b) The course for the Summer School Professional Certificate.—
For Grammar Grades, must embrace the following: Principles of
teaching, including how to study, hygiene, drawing, manual training
or domestic economy or elementary agriculture and school gardening;
methods of teaching language, reading, literature, arithmetic,
civics, history, and geography; advanced observation work and practice
teaching.
This certificate entitles the holder to teach only in the elementary
schools.
(c) The course for the Summer School Professional Certificate.—
Advanced Grade, must embrace the following courses of college
grade: Two required courses—English and education—four elective
courses—to be chosen from any of the following branches: Agriculture,
biology, field botany, chemistry, domestic economy, drawing.
French, geography, German, history, hygiene and sanitation, Latin,
literature, library methods, manual training, mathematics, music,
philosophy, physics, and psychology.
This certificate entitles the holder to teach only in the elementary
schools.
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