Appendix Federal Security Agency S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION Washington 25 April 15, 1944 Budget Bureau QUESTIONNAIRE IN REGARD TO THE VISITING TEACHER OR CHOOL SOCIAL WORKER IN CITY PUBLIC-SCHOOL SYSTEMS This questionnaire is being sent out to superintendents of schools in cities of over ,000 population in order to determine the number of school systems which employ sons as visiting teachers or school social workers. We hope, with this informa, to clarify the field of the visiting teacher, the training qualifications, and the mber of jobs available for people trained in this field. Such persons work under rious titles e.g., Visiting Counselor, School Social Worker, Visiting Teacher, or chool Visitor. Kindly give the following information concerning this type of ork in your school system. A penalty envelope, which requires no postage, is nclosed for returning the questionnaire. Number of persons so employed: (a) Full time..... ...(c) Full-time equivalent of total number.. Title used to designate them...... (b) Part time Ratio of elementary and secondary pupils enrolled to each full-time equivalent person employed in this capacity..... 4. Range of salaries paid: Lowest, $........ ....Highest, $... These salaries are comparable to those of which group? (Check) Teachers.... Supervisors...... Directors...... Principals...... 5. Cost of such services per pupil enrolled $...... travel allowance, if any). (based on salary and 6. Functions (underline those which apply): (a) Acting as attendance officers; (b) Working out problems causing nonattendance; (c) Assisting in adjustment of behavior problems; (d) Helping with home-school relationships; (e) Referral of appropriate problems to outside agencies; (f) Direct treatment of children's difficulties. 7. Qualifications required (underline or specify) : (a) Education: (1) Degree: A.B.; A.M.; Other. (2) Experience in teaching........ ...(years). (3) Certificate: State Teacher's; Special; Other.. (b) Social Work: (1) Professional training in an accredited school of social work: Less than 1 year; 1 year; 2 years. (2) Experience, if any............. Table I. Visiting teacher services provided in cities replying to questionna by State in which located able II. Titles of school employees performing visiting teacher functions reported, according to number of systems1 tused astment service worker may cities, 2 or more titles were reported for persons performing visiting teacher functions. Table III.-Combinations of functions of visiting teachers by number of cities reporting See page 25, table 5A for type of function represented. Two cities, not "Read table thus: Of the 250 cities reporting on functions, 77 cities reported five functions erformed, distributed in the manner indicated; 59 cities, four functions, etc. reatment of children's difficulties. and direct 74 cities reported all six functions as given on page 25. Table IV. Certificates required or held by visiting teachers, by State, number cities, and type of certificate 1Includes "special," "special attendance,' nurse-teacher certificate," "visiting teacher certificate." Includes "regular," "teaching certificate," "normal diploma," "college permanent," "standar "child welfare and attendance," "special scho TEACHERS California.-The Child Welfare and Supervision of Attendance Credential is the herization upon which a county board of education may issue a certificate to super- . child welfare and attendance and act as a visiting teacher in the county. An icant for this credential shall comply with the prescribed procedure of applicaand shall have completed a program including the following minimum require A. Possession of a valid California teacher's certificate, credential, or life diploma of general elementary or general secondary grade. B. Two years of successful teaching experience, or 1 year of successful teaching experience and 1 year of successful social service experience. C. Completion of a standard college course, with the bachelor's degree, including: (1) Six semester units, or the equivalent, with emphasis upon laws relating to children, including the Compulsory Education Law, Child Labor Law, and other State and Federal laws relating to children; methods and procedures in child welfare and attendance, including practice in method and procedures of social investigation related to the child in home, school, and community life. (2) Nine semester units, or the equivalent, distributed among at least three of the following fields: (a) Child development, including developmental psychology, child growth, and child development; (b) sociology or social economics, including standards of living and budgeting, housing problems, recreation, treatment of delinquency, labor regulations, social security, hours and wages, and child welfare services; (c) guidance, including tests and measurements, vocational guidance, and occupational studies; (d) field work with children; (e) education of exceptional children. Connecticut. To qualify for a certificate to serve as a visiting teacher or pupil djustment teacher, an applicant shall comply with the general requirements for all ertificates and present as minimum qualifications: 1. A Limited Elemenatry or Limited Secondary Certificate of the current issue and 2 years' public teaching experience. 2. Evidence of completion of at least 1 year of a course in accredited training school for social work, including satisfactory courses in mental hygiene, child psychology, mental tests and measurements and social case work. 3. Evidence of at least 9 months' experience in practical case work with children in an accredited social agency; the said practical case work may have been performed concurrently with these requirements of the year's course in the school of social work, provided the said social agency shall have been approved by the said school of social work. This special certificate to serve as visiting teacher is issued for a 3-year period, the expiration of which, upon presenting evidence of 3 years' successful experience as a visiting teacher in Connecticut the same may be made permanent. Michigan. In connection with the recently enacted law for a State program of Rules and Regulations Concerning State Teachers Certificate, 1941. Hartford, Conn., State Department of Education, 1941. (Connecticut School Document No. 2-1941-1942.) A State Program for Visiting Teachers. Lansing, Mich., State Department of Public Instruction, 1944. (Bulletin No. 3042.) |