(a.) Method; that is, the order and correlation of studies, oral teaching and exposition, the right use of text-books and note-books, the art of examining and questioning, and the best methods of teaching the various subjects which are included in the curriculum of an ordinary school.
(b.) School management. The structure, furniture, and fitting of school-rooms, books and apparatus, visible and tangible illustrations, classification, distribution of time, registration of attendance and progress, hygiene, with special reference to the material arrangements of the school, and the conditions of healthful study. One paper will be set on each of these subjects, 1, 2, 3. A fourth paper will be set containing a small number of questions of an advanced character on each of the three subjects.
A fee of £2 10s. shall be paid to the Syndicate by each candidate.
IV. The Syndicate will further award certificates of practical efficiency in teaching to candidates who have already obtained a certificate of theoretical efficiency and have been engaged in school-work for a year in some school or schools to be approved of by the Syndicate. The basis for the certificate of practical efficiency will be:—
(1.) Examination of the class taught by the candidate;
(2.) An inspection of the class while being taught;
(3.) Questions put to the teacher in private after the inspection;
(4.) A report made by the head masters or mistresses;
(5.) The Syndicate will also be ready to inspect, in the course of the summer, any college established for the training of teachers other than elementary, and to award certificates of theoretical knowledge to such candidates as may deserve them. They will also award certificates of practical efficiency if they are satisfied with the training in practical work received by the candidates.
I understand that the Senate of the University of London have also at present under consideration a scheme for the examination of teachers. The Home and Colonial School Society, Gray's Inn Road, King's Cross, London, also gives instruction in the art of teaching. Their terms to resident students between the ages of 15 and 30 are from £45 to £50 per annum; to day students £15 per annum, £8 for six months. Teachers are also trained and prepared for the Cambridge Teachers Examination at the West-Central Collegiate School, 29, Queen's Square, Bloomsbury, for a year; the fee is £5 5s., but in the case of any one who could be really useful in teaching in the school no charge would be made.