# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S72
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

70 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

is the special training of St. Louis Seminary students for a year’s

service in the teaching field. During the past three summers we

have had the following enrollment of St. Louis Seminary students:
1944 28 1945 35 1946 _..__ 29

This summer 40 of them have signified their intention of training
at River Forest and will be almost through the course by the time
the synodical convention closes.

Meanwhile Concordia Teachers College students and graduates
have done their share to alleviate the teacher shortage. During
the past three years our school has supplied the following groups

from its regular student body: Student
Graduates Teachers Total
1944 45 62 107
1945 ——— 47 64 111
1946 36 84 120

The total number of regular and emergency teachers of all kinds
noted above who have been trained and supplied during the three
years have been 148, 208, and 208 respectively.

The permanent solution of the teacher shortage does not lie in
the training of emergency teachers, but in providing a complete
and thorough training for larger numbers of men and women who
will devote their professional lives to service in the Lord’s kingdom.
The Lord Himself has made the hearts of many young people
willing to prepare for His work. It is our hope and prayer that
the library and dormitory allowed by Synod in 1944 may be under
construction by the time Synod convenes and that the new facilities
asked for will be granted by the Synod of 1947. Only thus can
we hope to meet permanently the ever-increasing demands for
greater numbers of teachers and for better trained ones.

Student Teaching Program

The formal student teaching program has been carried on in
Grace Lutheran School adjacent to the campus under a co-operative
arrangement between Synod and the congregation. In the fall
of 1946 two teachers were added to the staff, one by Synod and’
one by the congregation, and in the fall of 1947 an additional
teacher is to be engaged, bringing the total number of critic
teachers in the Training School to 7, including a kindergarten
instructor. The expansion of the school is fortunate just at this
time, since the number of students who must be given practice
teaching will be double the former number eligible for such training
when the present large Freshman and Sophomore classes enter the
Senior College.

In addition to the Campus School, other near-by Lutheran
schools are used for observation and for a limited amount of parti-