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of study will include 50 per cent of technical agricultural studies, 15 per cent 

 of agricultural education subjects, including practice teaching, 20 per cent of 

 related and allied subjects, and 15 per cent in approved electives to malie 

 a well-balanced course. Not less than two years of practical farm experience 

 is required. 



All-day home economics classes or departments must be in session for at 

 least 9 months in the year and not less than 30 hours In the week. The 

 course will be so arranged that at least one-half of the time of instruction 

 will be devoted to such phases as garment making, foods and cookery, sani- 

 tation and home nursing, house planning and furnishing, textiles, millinery, 

 dressmaking, and home management. The minimum qualifications for teachers 

 will be (1) graduation from a 4-year course in home economics, with not less 

 than 15 semester hours in educational subjects, including special methods, 

 practice teaching, etc.; and (2) not less than 2 years of practical teaching 

 experience and sufficient practical experience in housekeeping to make the in- 

 struction practical. 



A teacher of vocational home economics in part-time schools must be a 

 graduate from a standard college or university with a degree in home eco- 

 nomics, conforming to the State school law of Oregon on the certification of 

 teachers, and have had sulficient practical experience in the trade to make her 

 instruction practical. In the evening classes the teacher must be a graduate 

 from a standard college or university, or hold a life State certificate or State 

 diploma secured by examination before the State department. The minimum 

 salary of the teacher of vocational home economics is $1,000. 



The training of teachers of home economics under this act will be done In 

 the Oregon College under the supervision of the State Board for Vocational 

 Education. By an arrangement for itinerant teaching, teacher-training will be 

 carried on in the regular classes in the college and in evening schools in 

 Portland. The course of study corresponds to that for teachers of agriculture, 

 but requires practice work in different departments of a practice house main- 

 tained on a practical housekeeping basis. 



Vocational education (Oregon Bd. Vocational Ed. Bui. 1 {1911), pp. 15- 

 28). — This bulletin, which is combined with the plan for the organization and 

 administration of the Smith-Hughes Act noted above, contains the general regu- 

 lations of the State Board for Vocational Education. 



A standard course in vocational agriculture for all-day or department students 

 is to consist of 4 full years' or 16 units' credit, 15 units being required for gradu- 

 ation. A unit covers 2 hours a day for 36 weeks, or 360 hours a year. For 

 practical work not requiring preparation, two hours' work is required for one 

 hour's credit. No projects will be accepted as worthy of school credit which 

 do not involve new experience and the acquiring of new skill for the student, 

 i. e., projects to be acceptable must have educational value. 



For instruction in home economics the State or local community, or both 

 must provide an approved general equipment of not less than $500 value, an 

 approved reference library, a practice house of not less than 5 rooms with 

 approved furnishings, and an annual fund of not less than $50 for incidental 

 expenses. Twenty pupils will constitute the maximum class or group of pupils 

 to be instructed in home economic subjects by one teacher. A local advisory 

 board is provided. 



Report of the committee on teaching (Amcr. Farm Management Assoc. 

 Rpt., 7 (1916). pp. 108-116) .—This is a report previously noted (E. S. R., 36, 

 p. 297) on the status of advanced undergraduate teaching in farm management 

 offered in 17 of the agricultural colleges. 



