HANDS ON! ON-CAMPUS STUDENT TEACHER TRAINING 1909-2017
1909--Spring Term The Model School begins (grades 1 and 2) to give senior-level normal students experience teaching (Reynolds Hall was used)
1915: The Training School (Graded School) teaches Grades 1-8; their faculty is listed in the college catalog
1923--Ms. Florence Shaw becomes Supervisor of Teacher Training; she shares this task with other female instructors
1928--The Little House and Barn are constructed over Summer Term by children being instructed by teachers taking the Summer School (Little House Scrapbook)
1957: The former Graded School building is acquired by Shepherd College and houses the social sciences
1957/8: A nursery school is established on campus. (This fact is listed under Home Economics.) Thanks to Miss Shaw's generosity, the Little House and Barn are used by the Nursery School children as recreation areas.
1979: Stutzman-Slonaker Hall (formerly "Building B") is dedicated. The Nursery School classroom moves into this building
2017: Nursery school at Shepherd closes
Note: All bold events on the timeline have display items associated with them
Sources for webpage timeline include History of Shepherd College by AG Slonaker, the Cohongoroota (the college yearbook), college catalogs, the archives vertical file, and the memories of former Nursery School personnel.
This term's display is a short overview of on-campus hands'-on student-teacher training at Shepherd. A model school was created on campus in the early twentieth century; its legacy (on-campus) includes the inclusion of the training school in campus publications, the building of the Little House and Barn, and the creation and long-running of the Shepherd College/Shepherd University Nursery School.
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Display Case Left Side From the front to the back of the case
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Display Case Right Side From the back to the front of the case
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From the front to the back of the case
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All photos of display were done by Ms. Jess Roberts
One of the longest-serving instructors at Shepherd College, Ms. Florence Shaw is best remembered for the Little House and Barn project. In 1970, when Shaw Hall was dedicated to her, she brought a re-creation of the original Little House Scrapbook for the college to have.
