1911-1912 Academic Catalog

CERTIFICATION OF T EACHERS Second Year, Second Semester. Hours Per Week. Advanced P sychology . Pedagogy Teaching of Physiology . American Literature Practice in Teaching . CERTIFICATION OF TEACHERS. :) Under the Hawkins Act for the Certification of Teachers, passed by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio in 1910, graduates of the four-year and two-year Normal Courses enjoy special advantages in obtaining certificates to teach. I The Hawkins Act is a step toward the elevation of teaching in the public schools to the rank of a pro– fession. I t aims to do this by providing the State with professionally trained teachers. Its provisions are as follows : 1. Graduates of a two-year normal course, by pass– ing an ordinary county examination, w ill be g ranted a provisional elementary certificate valid for four years, all over the State of Ohio. 2. After twenty-four months of successful teach– ing, holders of such certificates will be granted element– ary life certificates upon successful examination in the Theory and Practice of Teaching. 3. Graduates of a four-year normal course, by pass– ing an ordinary county high school examination, will be granted a provisional high school certificate valid for four years all over the State of Ohio. 33