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Practice teaching, which means the actual conduct of classes in various high school subjects, such as French, algebra, history, and English, is the form of apprenticeship provided for those who expect to be teachers in secondary schools. Other forms of apprenticeship are used for those who are in training for careers in school administration, playground work, vocational guidance, educational measurement, and other forms of educational service, outside of teaching...
Students who come to the School without experience are ordinarily apprenticed in their first year as teachers, and later, if they are working toward administration, supervision, or some form of special service, they take additional apprenticeship in connection with advanced courses. The practice teachers whose work is supervised by the School therefore include nearly all inexperienced students whether or not they intend to seek positions as classroom instructors. These practice teachers also include a few undergraduates who are taking advantage of the opportunity to include the practice teaching course, without credit, in the work of their Senior year...
...operating with Professor Spaulding and Mr. Wilson are various specialists on the staff of the School, who participate in supervising the first-year apprenticeship in their own fields, and who take full charge of second-year apprenticeship for classroom instructors. The list includes Professor L. J. A. Mercier in French and Professor Ralph Beatley '13 in mathematics. In addition to supervision from members of the Education Faculty practice teachers work under the immediate oversight of critic teachers in the schools, who are selected and paid by the Graduate School of Education for this work...
Practice teaching on this general plan has been conducted at Harvard since 1902. The extension of the idea of apprenticeship to other forms of educational service was part of the reorganization of the program of the Graduate School of Education which went into effect in 1927. The School now requires two years of work for the Master's degree with a general examination and apprenticeship in addition to the ordinary requirement of credit in courses. Every student in the School combines in his program the theoretical study of Education and advanced work in the special subject he expects to teach...
...testing, vocational counseling, and the directing of playground and recreation centers is comparatively easy to arrange. In administration it is possible to secure opportunity for participation in school surveys, statistical studies of school records, the formulation of building programs, and similar activities. It is naturally impossible to give full apprenticeship to inexperienced students in the management of a school or school system. A partial apprenticeship, however, is provided in connection with every curriculum for the Ed.M., and students may at least be tested as to some of the qualities and skills that are necessary in the work for which they...