This is the fourth in a series of articles on Menorah Societies and Hebrew Clubs in the New York High Schools.
The Board of Examiners of the Board of Education has announced that men and women candidates for the license of teach Hebrew in the New York City high schools have until March 15 to file their applications. The examination of candidates in Hebrew will be given during the period from April 15 to May 13, 1935.
This move on the part of the Board of Education to create new posts for teachers of the Hebrew language is an outgrowth of the teaching of this subject in the city institutions for the past four years.
The Biblical language was recently placed on an equal footing with other foreign languages, taught as a part of the regular curriculum, when the candidates for the post of assistant director of foreign languages in the school system were permitted to offer a knowledge of Hebrew toward satisfaction of the requirements for that position for the first time.
REQUIREMENTS LISTED
The Jewish Daily Bulletin herewith offers the eligibility prerequisites for the license to teach Hebrew in the city secondary schools, salaries, fees, etc. They are as follows:
1—Applications to enter this competitive examination will be received from February 1 to March 15, 1935, inclusive. Applications filed or postmarked after March 15 will not be accepted.
2—Applications must in every case be accompanied by the required fee of $4.30.
3—The basic salary of a teacher of Hebrew ranges from $2,148 to $4,500, according to length of satisfactory service. The annual increment is $156 or more.
4—Only those persons who meet the New York City eligibility requirements herein set forth, including the qualifications as to age and citizenship may enter the examination.
5—Graduation from a college or university recognized by the Regents of the University of the State of New York. However, in the case of Hebrew, candidates may present “the satisfactory equivalent of a college education to the Board of Examiners, for its approval.”
6—A candidate must offer one of the following:
a)—One hundred and sixty days of teaching of any subject in a high school, a New York City continuation school, or a college. If a candidate offers the required number of days teaching no graduate study is necessary.
b)—Three hundred hours of post graduate study in a recognized college, 240 hours of study creditable towards a master’s degree together with sixty hours in methods of teaching the Hebrew language (in general fifteen hours corresponds to one university credit). No teaching experience is necessary under this eligibility clause.
c)—A combination of graduate study and days of teaching may be offered.
d)—Two years of teaching ### grades 5A-9B in elementary schools and in addition 150 hours of satisfactory graduate study (study must include ninety hours work creditable to a Master’s degree.
Full particulars and information on eligibility requirements may be secured from the School News Editor, care of the Jewish Daily Bulletin.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN HEBREW CULTURE CLUB
Abraham Lincoln High School, in Coney Island, was one of the very first secondary institutions in New York City to adopt courses in Hebrew as a regular part of the curriculum. The Biblical language became an officially credited subject in this school and in Thomas Jefferson High School in the Fall term of 1930.
Only a handful of students enrolled for these courses at Lincoln High when the study was originally initiated but the demand has
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