CLASS "A" TEACHER PREPARATION

The amount’ of preparation in the teaching field to be regarded as a minimum
is as follews:

English; Fifteen semester hours of college credit from the basic English
courses in composition, rhetoric, and literature. In addition to the preceding
fifteen hours of basic English courses, teachers in public speaking and of journal-
ism shall have had prenaration in the subject taught amounting to at least five
semester hours of college work.

Fereign Language: Fifteen semester hours in the language taught.

 

Mathematics: Fifteen semester hours.

Deductions in the fields of foreign language and mathematics may be allowed
to the extent of two semester hours for each unit earned in high school, not to
exceed a total deduction of six semester hours.

Science: Fifteen semester hours of college credit in those science subjects
which are offered in the Kansas high schools for credit, with at least five semes-
ter hours for each unit subject taught and three semester hours for each one-half
unit subject taught.

Social Science: Fifteen semester hours of college credit in those social
science subjects which are offered in the Kansas high schools for credit, with at
least five semester hours for each unit subject taught and three semester hours
for each one-half unit subject taught.

 

Industrial Arts: Fifteen semester hours of college credit in those industrial
arts subjects which are offered in the Kansas high schools, with at least five se~
mester hours of college credit in the specific subject taught.

 

Commercial: Fifteen hours of college credit in those commercial subjects which
are offered in the Kansas high scho@ls for credit, with the following specific sub-
ject preparation: 7

(1) For teaching shorthand, typing, and bookkeeping, five or more semester
hours in each subject taught. A deduction of two semester hours fer ene
or more units of high schoel credit presented in each subject for college
entrance, not to exceed two hours.

(2) For teaching other major commercial subjects, five or more semester hours
in specific or related subjects is required. No deductions are permissible.
For teaching one-half unit subjects, three or more college hours are
required.

(3) No examination for certificates of competency may be allowed in lieu ef
college credit after September 1, 1940..

Music: Fifteen semester hours credit in music with special preparation in
the subject taught.

Art: Fifteen semester hours credit in art with special preparation in the
subject taught.

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