The entering student is expected to have had eighth grade or one year's high school training. In addition to a thorough training in elementary subjects, there is required a course in elementary agriculture taught by the professor of agriculture. The course covers three years. The agriculture is as follows: Teachers' Agriculture II.-Agricultural physics, fall term. Teachers' Agriculture IV.-Animal husbandry, with laboratory, spring term. Teachers' Agriculture V.-Horticulture, afternoon work, spring term. Following is the full schedule of the teachers' course at the North Dakota College: Chemical laboratory, 2 to 5 p. m. Physics laboratory, 2 to 5 p. m. History of education, 8 a. m. Algebra II, 10 a. m. English III, 11 a. m. Physics laboratory, 2 to 5 p. m. The Connecticut Agricultural College has for several years offered a two-year course of preparation for the special teaching of nature study in the public schools. The course is offered to graduates of high schools and to those who have had the first two years of their regular course in agriculture or in home making. This course "for rural school teaching" includes much work in agricultural subjects, selected from the regular courses in the college. It is intended to be supplemented by the work for teachers in the summer school, and by one year in a good normal school. WASHINGTON (STATE) AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. In addition to the regular courses in the college at Pullman, Washington, courses are offered in education, specially intended to train teachers in methods. Whenever a student expresses a desire to engage in school teaching, he is encouraged to elect at least two courses in the department of education. One of these courses is "the principles of education," the other "methods of teaching agriculture." The latter is taught largely by the department of agriculture itself. The above examples constitute the only instances known to the writer of agricultural colleges, or agricultural departments of colleges, in the United States that have actually put pedagagical courses or departments into operation, although other colleges or departments are each cooperating more or less with the education department of the university or college of which it is a part. Several of the colleges of agriculture are now considering the establishing of education. courses. It is probable that such courses will constitute the most marked departure in agricultural college work in the immediate future. As yet the whole subject is in a formative and experimental stage. These colleges have a very large and varied constituency, and they properly represent all the phases of country life. 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Cornell University, arrangement for nor- Correspondence method of aiding teachers Country schools, instruction in agriculture, County schools of agriculture, a means of Course of study, for rural schools, in agri- for high schools, in agriculture, 18-21. of normal department of New York State in agriculture in Teachers College, Uni- in horticulture in Teachers College, Uni- in University of Maine for intending in normal department, North Carolina in teachers' course of North Dakota Ag- Department of Agriculture, aids to teach- Dunn County (Wis.) Normal School, influ- not a field for trained teachers of agri- Farmers' institutes, cooperation with teach- a study in University of Illinois, 42. Grounds, of rural schools, 14. |