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COLLEGIATE PROFESSIONAL

The Collegiate Professional certificate is issued to the holder of a baccalaureate
degree conferred by a standard university, teachers college, arts college, or
technical college, who has completed at least nine college session hours' work in
teacher-training courses, distributed as described below:

Required courses in education:

         

	Session-hours
[4] Practice teaching	3
School and community hygiene, including physical inspection of school children	1
Elective courses in education	5
Total credits education courses	9

Suggested courses from which electives in education may be chosen:

• Educational psychology

• Educational sociology

• Elementary school organization, supervision and administration

• High school organization, supervision and administration

• Curriculum of elementary school

• Curriculum of high school

• Educational and psychological tests

• Problems in secondary education

• Special methods in high school subjects

The holder is permitted to teach all subjects in the elementary schools, and
in the high schools those subjects in which he has six session hours' credit.

Note.—After 1935 Collegiate Professional certificates, in addition to being
endorsed for teaching given subjects in the high schools, will be endorsed for
teaching in only the sixth and seventh grades of the elementary schools; except
that the certificates of those who have taken appropriate courses in elementary
education will be endorsed for teaching all subjects in the elementary grades.

This certificate is issued for ten years and is renewable, subject to the regulations
for the renewal of certificates, for periods of ten years.