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opportunity is given for practice in working with children and for 

 the solving of problems connected with this phase of the work. 

 (2) Practice in the teacher's garden. Each member of the class 

 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 five courses offered in children's gardening 

 constitute one unit. Open only to teachers. 



These courses have been accepted by the Board of Education 

 of the City of New York for teachers' credits as follows: 



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

 " b " of the conditions of eligibility for a 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 15-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 

 any 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 aca- 

 demic year. 



These courses have also been accepted by the Brooklyn Teach- 

 ers' Association and appear in its syllabus of courses. 



The individual student may apply at any college for credits on 

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



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

 make clear the fundamental principles of morphological and physi- 

 ological botany. Although, with a view to correlation with the 

 other courses described below, particular emphasis is laid upon the 

 higher plants, all of the main groups of plants are considered, by 

 means of informal lectures, discussions, demonstrations, and visits 



