 | The University of Virginia record March 1, 1921 |  |
REGULATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
It will be the policy of the Department of Education to require,
beginning with January 1st, 1922, three full quarters of normal work
in order to secure the elementary professional certificate. Since
under the regulations of the Board an applicant was allowed five
(5) years in which to complete the requirements for an elementary
certificate, those who have heretofore entered this course will be
granted a five (5) year privilege, but under no condition can the
time be extended beyong the summer of 1924. Applicants who enter
the professional course in the summer of 1921 will have the privilege
of completing the requirements under the condition now permitted,
namely, in three (3) terms of six weeks each over a three
year period, or in two (2) terms of twelve weeks each over a two
the summer of 1924.
When the elementary professional course is to be completed in
two summers of twelve weeks each, one-half of the first summer's
work shall be independent of the elementary course of study. The
precise content of this one-half of the course shall be fixed by the
director of the summer school, and should be academic as distinguished
from purely method work.
Graduates of the normal training departments in high schools who
enter the elementary professional course may be credited with one-third
of the requirement for this course, said one-third to be fixed in
the discretion of the summer school director.
An applicant who has taught for at least three years on a first
grade certificate may, if she so elect, complete the elementary professional
course in two summers, and be excused from the prescribed
six weeks of academic work in the first summer.
Applicants who have completed any part of the professional course
as outlined prior to the summer of 1917 may be given appropriate
credit by the director of the summer school on the elementary professional
course as outlined at the present time. It is agreed that
the number of subjects in the elementary professional course will
be strictly alhered to, namely, four (4) subjects in the first year;
four (4) in the second, and five (5) in the third year.
Applicants who have completed two years of the three year
course, as outlined prior to 1920, and thus have credit for ten
courses, shall take in the summer school the third year of the present
professional course embracing five subjects. In cases where
obvious duplication of branches occurs, the director of the summer
school shall have discretion to make appropriate substitutes.
| The University of Virginia record March 1, 1921 | |