Teacher Training: A Seventy-Year Felt Need
This historical article by Russell Dykstra chronicles the seventy-year effort within the Protestant Reformed Churches to establish formal teacher training programs for their denominational schools. The piece documents the churches' recognition of the need for distinctly Protestant Reformed pedagogical training and recounts various institutional and informal attempts to meet this need, including the Teachers' Club organized by Rev. George Ophoff in the 1950s.
Previous article in this series: February 15, 2017, p. 220. Since the time that Protestant Reformed schools were proposed, there has been an awareness of the need for training teachers for those schools. And especially as school societies formed in various congregations and, one after another, schools materialized, teachers longed for training to equip them for giving distinctly Protestant Reformed instruction. The churches understood the need. It came into expression in the requests to synods...
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