Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...politician who went down to Texas in 1821 to found, at San Felipe, the first permanent Anglo-American settlement in that raw Mexican territory. His father Moses had dreamed of the project, died before he could carry it through. William Barrett Travis was an impetuous young Alabama lawyer-school-teacher who married one of his pupils, went to Texas to get away from her. Sam Houston, hard drinker and hard fighter, quit the Governorship of Tennessee and drifted to Texas because his aristocratic young wife had left him a few months after they were married...
...tempted to make one mistake that is so serious as to be almost fatal: They may try to get a job without the training that will enable them to make teaching a career. It is still possible for the "raw A.B." to find a position as a teacher, but it will be a position in a small public school or in a private school that takes apprentices for small pay. The larger cities throughout the country, and most of the states, require technical courses in Education and advanced study of the subject to be taught. The requirements for state certificates...
...standards in the subjects to be taught--Classics, English, Fine Arts, French, Germans, Mathematics, Music, the Natural Sciences, and the Social Sciences--are in general those of the Divisional Examinations in these fields. In addition, certain skills are tested separately, e.g., oral command of French or German for the teacher of either of these languages. In certain subjects graduate courses are specifically required. The standards in Education are: first, a general examination in Educational Theory; second, an apprenticeship in teaching; third, a special examination on the curriculum and methods in the subject to be taught. The minimum requirement of graduate...
...should be emphasized that preparation for teaching as a career demands more than knowledge of a subject. It also demands more than knowledge of "methods". No teacher, however scholarly or however skillful, nor with whatever "personality", is capable of taking part in reorganizing a curriculum, determining general administrative policies in a school or school system, measuring the results of instruction with modern scientific instruments, or guiding an individual pupil, unless he has studied the problems involved in these undertakings. That is the basic reasons why the college graduate had better not go directly into teaching. He is not prepared...
...girls are without an educational program or a teacher. There is no psychiatrist to examine and advise on the treatment of these unfortunate children...