|Helping rural teachers grow: a cooperative program for the
education of elementary teachers in Caledonia central district,
Vermont, developed through participation in the cooperative
study of the Commission on Teacher Education| Arthur John Holden
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teachers, In-service training, Social group work In 1936 the
writer accepted a position as superintendent of schools in
Caledonia Central District, a rural area in northeastern
Vermont. With a background of extensive observation in rural
schools in Europe and the United States, a year of field and
research work with the Vermont Commission on Country Life, four
yearsĂ experience teaching in Vermont rural schools and a year
spent in studying rural education at Teachers College, he
appreciated many of the difficulties confronting rural life and
education, and considered this a desirable opportunity to study
and attack some of the persistent problems of ed