# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S67
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 67

Concordia Teachers College showed a definite interest in a fifth
year of teacher training to be added to our teachers’ colleges
(graduate year). In co-operation with Synod’s committee on
graduate training, Seward is recommending that in 1959 serious
consideration be given to instituting a fifth year of teacher training
at this school. This would, of course, be optional training, particu-
larly designed for teachers who have had field experience,

Summer Sessions: The summer session has continued to grow.
Courses are given for the benefit of teachers in the field who need
to meet specific certification requirements, teachers who wish to
complete the work on their degree, supply teachers, and teachers
trained in secular schools who desire to prepare for service in the
church. Workshops for special interest groups are also provided.

September Field Experience: This Project, inaugurated four
years ago, has been incorporated as a regular phase of the student
teaching program. Each fall Junior class students spend a week
in a Lutheran elementary school, usually near their home, in order
to gain firsthand practical experience during the opening week of
the new school term. Reports received from over 200 students, and
the appraisal of a like number of pastors and principals, indicate
that the program is accepted as a very worthwhile field experience
for future teachers.

The High School

The revision of the entrance requirements of the junior col-
leges of our church has made it possible for young men to receive
their complete high school preministerial work at Seward.

The faculty conducted an exhaustive study on the possibility
of using Concordia High School as a laboratory school for high
school teacher-training students in the college. It is apparent that
Seward is particularly well fitted to carry out such a program.

The high school curriculum h

of carry-over from
other schools.
Concordia High School continues to be accredited by the North
Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, as well as
by the State Department of Education of the State of Nebraska.

Enrollment
It is in this area that the blessing of the Lord has been par-
ticularly evident. The young people of our church have been
strongly moved to come and prepare for the work of their Savior.
Enrollment in the college increased from a total of 296 students