. The Normal School bulletin . is necessary for those who are to fill the sixteenhundred grade positions in Southern Illinois why is not special train-ing necessary for those who are to fill the eighteen hundred rural posi-tions ? During the fall and winter twelve different students availed them-selves of this rural practice. They were required to take four weeksof work but most of them became so enthusiastic over it that theyasked to remain longer. In every case the request was granted butthis might have to be discontinued in the future. When the school first opened we thought best to take ou
. The Normal School bulletin . is necessary for those who are to fill the sixteenhundred grade positions in Southern Illinois why is not special train-ing necessary for those who are to fill the eighteen hundred rural posi-tions ? During the fall and winter twelve different students availed them-selves of this rural practice. They were required to take four weeksof work but most of them became so enthusiastic over it that theyasked to remain longer. In every case the request was granted butthis might have to be discontinued in the future. When the school first opened we thought best to take out but twopractice teachers, one in the forenoon and another in the afternoon, butafter the work was pretty well started the number was increased. Af-ter holidays, four, two in the forenoon and two in the afternoon wereused to advantage. It is doubtful if more than two practice teachersshould be used each half day. ?8 Forty-fifth Annual Catalogue of the 3 s- Si IX! 1> M Q I .ptfl Southern Illinois State Normal University 79. 80 Forty-fifth Annual Catalogue of the County Superintendent O. F. Aken of Jackson county visited theschool and inspected the work at different times. He made a reportof his inspection to the Southern Illinois Teachers Association in Aprillast, which report I find published in the Illinois Teacher for May,1919. Following is his report given under the heading Rural TeacherTraining. 1. I feel that the new project launched this year by the Normalschool here is the best move made by this school in a long time. 2. As you perhaps know this institution is now trying to showyoung folks who expect to teach in district schools how to do it. Ithas taken over the Buckels school in the country, (just outside of Car-bondale) and is taking young folks out there and showing them how todiscipline, manage, and teach such a school. 3. Every county superintendent knows that it requires more edu-cation, more executive ability, and more training to teach a schoolwith thirty re
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