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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: F. SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL TEACHING THE recent development of technical high schools, industrial schools, and prevocational schools has increased the demand for teachers who are adequately prepared to give instruction in such schools. The teacher of technical subjects is expected to be familiar with industrial conditions and preferably to have had practice in the industrial arts, under business conditions. She must be prepared to give instruction in courses of study which have been planned with reference to immediate use in industrial fields. The student goes from school to work, and often receives instruction through part-time schooling while she is employed in some trade or industry. The ordinary curriculum of the normal schools is not yet meeting this demand. Simmons College therefore offers courses, described in the following programme, in the hope of enabling persons who are otherwise qualified, to secure such instruction as will fit them for positions in technical or industrial schools. The courses offered provide different degrees of practical experience, according to the previous preparation of the student. Students who are not entirely familiar with trade conditions are expected to include in their programme the practice in shops, under supervision, which is available at the Women's Educational and Industrial Union. F I. PREPARATION FOR TEACHING INDUSTRIAL NEEDLE ARTS By an arrangement with the Women's Educational and Industrial Union a one-year programme has been established for training teachers and directors in industrial schools. This programme offers courses in the teaching of such trades as demand a knowledge of the needle arts. It affords comprehension of trade standards and requirements through carefully directedpractice and observation in trade shops, a...