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opportunity is given for the student to become accustomed to 

 handling children and for working out problems connected with 

 this phase of the work. (2) Practice in the teacher's garden. 

 Each student has a garden of her own and works it herself, thus 

 performing all gardening operations to be taught later to children. 



To those who satisfactorily complete this course a certificate 

 will be given. The courses offered in children's gardening are 

 considered as a unit. 



These courses have been accepted by the Board of Education 

 for teachers' credits as follows : 



1. Any of the courses will be accepted toward meeting clause 

 "b" of the conditions of eligibility for high school license in 

 Biology. 



2. The course in Pedagogy of Botany and Educational Prin- 

 ciples of Children's Gardening (B4) will be accepted as a satis- 

 factory 30-hour course in Pedagogy toward meeting the require- 

 ment of 60 hours' work in Pedagogy in lieu of the written test in 

 Principles and Methods of Teaching for Promotion License. 



3. This course will be accepted as a pedagogical course, and 

 either of the other four courses will be accepted as an academic 

 course toward meeting the conditions of exemption from the aca- 

 demic paper in the examination for license as assistant to prin- 

 cipal. Such exemption is granted to those who offer 120 hours 

 of satisfactory work, 60 of which must be in the Science of Edu- 

 cation and 60 in some branch of literature, science or art, such 120 

 hours' work not being accomplished wholly within one academic 

 year. 



These courses have been accepted by the Brooklyn Teachers' 

 Association and appear in the syllabus of courses. 



The individual student may apply at any college for credits on 

 these courses, which will be granted according to individual merit. 



Bi. General Botany. — Thirty sessions. A course designed to 

 make clear the fundamental morphological and physiological prin- 

 ciples of botany. With a view to correlation with the other courses 

 described below, emphasis is laid upon the higher plants, particu- 

 larly their classification and physiology, and in connection with the 

 latter subject a consideration of plant diseases from a practical as 



