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Female Normal School Criticisms
Very naturally the greater part of the criticisms of pupilteachers will be given by the Supervisors. Yet the Heads of Departments are expected to observe and criticise work done in their special subjects.
All such criticisms are to be
made
in
Yet Supervisors and Heads of Departments are free to arrange the matter of criticisms in any way that may seem to them best in attaining the end in view. writing to the Supervisors.
Purpose The school has a double purpose. instituted that our pupil-teachers
solving
the
it
has been
get actual experiences in
various problems confronting the teacher.
are placed in charge of a cipline, and,
may
Primarily,
room and held responsible for
They its dis-
being closely supervised, are required to teach the
They are observed and criticised, and required to make out lesson plans, directed in methods of instruction, and are not allowed to graduate, no matter how different branches in the grades.
proficient they
have
may
satisfied the
be in the academic branches, until they
Training School Faculty that they are qualified
to teach.
The Department of Education is closely associated with the Training School, and will insist that the pupils are trained according to the very latest educational thought. The pupils are not "practiced upon" by those who have no conception of the work of the teacher, but are taught by those whose work is supervised by a professional expert. Second.
Juvenille Library
A
library,
containing about two hundred carefully selected
volumes, has just been added to the Training School. This is regarded somewhat as a complicated piece of school apparatus,
something stood.
and used in order to be well underThe pupil-teachers are given an opportunity to learn to be studied