84 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TEACHER 



TRAINING. 



President F. S. Kedzie. 



Dear Sir : 



Personnel of the department : 



Walter H. French, Professor. 



Mary E. Sweeney, Professor. 



E. Lynn Grover, Associate Professor. 



Elizabeth J. Frazer, Associate professor. 



Josephine Hart, Assistant professor. 



The Department of Teacher Training has charge of presenting the courses 

 in education, and directing the practice teaching for those who are preparing 

 to teach agriculture and home economics. 



The courses in education for teachers of agriculture are as follows: 

 Education 4. Educational ps3'cholog3^ 

 Education 5. General methods and school demonstration. 

 Education 6. Special methods in teaching agriculture. 

 Education 6a. Practice teaching. 



The courses for women are : 

 Education 1. Psychology. 



Education la. Special methods in home economics. 

 Education 2. General methods and school management. 

 Education 3. History of education. 

 Education 3a. Practice teaching. 



During the year 59 men in the Agricultural division have taken the courses 

 in education. This number included a part of the senior class in agriculture 

 and part of the junior class in agriculture. Forty-four seniors completed the 

 courses in education and practice teaching and received licenses. 



Sixty-eight women entered the courses of education for the fall and winter. 

 These young women were mostly juniors. For the spring term there were 

 forty-eight young women all of whom were seniors. Thirty-seven senior 

 women were graduated and granted vocational certificates to teach home 

 economics. 



This department operates under the provisions of the federal law, known 

 as the Smith-Hughes law, and the young men and women will teach for the 

 most part in the schools operating under the said federal law. The purpose 

 of vocational departments of the public schools is to give an opportunity for 

 direct training along vocational lines and so far as we are concerned, we 

 prepare for the vocations of agriculture and home making. The annual report 

 of this department will show the courses given and the expenses connected 

 with the administration of the department. The total expense of the de- 

 partment for the year for instruction, travel and incidental expenses, is approx- 

 imately $14,000. 



Practically fifty per cent of the public schools in Michigan teaching courses 



