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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1935, Page 89

Scan: The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1935. 89

he is also to be a leader in young people’s work and an efficient Sunday-school
superintendent. All these activities demand high intelligence, leadership, and
efficient training.

Our normal schools are bending every effort to achieve the best results
in the training of our teachers for the varied work demanded of a present-day
parish-school teacher. But the time of training and education ought to be
lengthened and eventually include two additional obligatory years of a stand-
ard teachers’ college.

Your Committee realizes that it is unwise to keep students at the same
school for the high school and the full college course. Yet we ought not to
eliminate the high-school department; for it cannot be denied that the best
results will be achieved if the workers in the Church receive their complete
education in our own schools.

As a step leading to a full college course of four years in the training of
| our teachers your Committee recommends that a third year be added to
the normal course at River Forest. This year is to be obligatory also for
those students who have completed the six-year course at Seward. Your Com-
mittee is assured by the River Forest faculty that due to a decreased enrol-
- ment the introduction of the additional year will entail no additional expense.
Your Committee believes, however, that the high-school and college depart-
ments should not be permanently conjoined, but that the problem of separating
| them must be solved in the light of future developments.

It is self-evident that, as far as applicable to the normal schools, also their
| curriculum be integrated and unified and that therefore the Committee of

. Higher Education include the normal school in its curricular studies and
direct the introduction of an integrated curriculum and its requirements.

Correspondence Courses for Teachers. —

Your Committee recommends that the faculty at River Forest be encour-
aged to institute correspondence courses for teachers.

Action of Synod.

r Synod had already decided that a Curriculum Committee be appointed
- for the normal schools. (Cf. Resolution 5, under C.)

Committee 1 now brought in the following report: —

In matters pertaining to the training of parish-school teachers as pre-
sented by the Committee on Higher Education, urging that a third year be
added to the normal school at River Forest and taking cognizance of Me-
morials 118, 119, and 129, presented by the Northern and Southern Nebraska
Districts and the Mid-West Teachers’ Association, and unprinted Memorials 10
#, and il, presented by the Board of Control of Concordia Teachers’ College,
= Seward, Nebr., and the Kansas District Teachers’ Conference, urging to keep
. the Seward institution on an equal basis with the River Forest institution,

your Committee recommends as a step leading to a full college course of four
F years in the training of our teachers: —