time which should be allotted (a) for the actual dictation, (b) for overlooking, (c) for correction; and explain the best plan to prevent the children committing the same errors at a subsequent lesson.

29. On what principle was writing taught in your school (practising or other)? At what age did the children commence writing on paper? What method was adopted for the correction of mistakes?

30. Describe the different systems adopted in elementary schools for teaching reading: specify the method which you consider the most beneficial for children, and assign your reasons.

31. What subjects have you been taught to consider most suitable for class lessons, and for gallery lessons ? On what principle do you make your selection ?

32. What teaching power is required for a mixed school of 100 children in an agricultural parish? and in what manner should this power be distributed ? Or, in a town parish, for a schoool of girls and infants with an average attendance of 170 children?

Write notes of a lesson on one of the following: The adverb, The English Lakes, The Tidal Wave, London, The Bee.

Write notes of a lesson either on "honesty," or "speaking the truth."

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cleanliness," or

33. What portion of time, in an infant school, should be allotted, (a) for recreation; (b) for marching and singing? Let your reply include a time. table for one morning and afternoon in a week.

34. What teaching power is required for an infant school of 180 children; and in what manner should this power be distributed?

35. Describe the different methods adopted for teaching to infants the sight and sound of letters; state the special advantages of the system adopted in your school (practising or other).

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36. Write notes of a lesson either on "the human eye," or "coal," or "poisonous plants," or donkey."

MEM. The x represents attendance; -represents absence. What instruction have you received to prepare you to keep a log book?

37. Explain, as to a pupil-teacher, the method by which infants should be taught to use the slate, (a) for writing, (b) for making figures.

38. Draw up a time table for an infant school numbering 150, under a mistress, two pupil-teachers, and one paid monitor; with a principal school room, a class room, and a small room for babies.

What registers are kept in your school (practising or other)?

What trustworthy statistics can be drawn from these registers ?

At what hour and by whom should the registers be marked?

Why should registers always be marked in ink, and not in pencil? and why should they never be marked roughly at first and copied out afterwards?

Fill in the table which is here given, leaving some absences, and state from your own filling in--(a) The average number present (at each meeting of the school) during the week. (b) The number present at all. (c) Average number of attendances made by each child present at all. (d) Average age of class.

39. Name the principal points in a writing lesson for a junior class to which a teacher's attention should be directed, and describe the method which you have been taught to adopt in teaching writing throughout your school.

40. Explain the method which should be carried out in the use of the ball-frame, and the benefit which children may derive from such use; state also the time at which such outward help should be withdrawn from the children.

State the different objects which a teacher may fairly have before her mind in giving a reading lesson, according to the class of children she may be going to teach, and explain clearly the method you have been taught to adopt in any one such reading lesson.

41. Explain distinctly the different methods by which you have been taught to teach spelling. Show the advantages and disadvantage of such methods.

42. What difference should be made by a teacher in giving a dictation lesson to an upper and to a lower class of children? Why this difference? State the simplest and most effective way of correcting the dictation.

43. To what extent and on what principle should pictures be used in a school?

Write notes of a lesson on one of the following:The noun, The horse, The human hand, The ocean. Write notes of a lesson either on "temperance," or “truthfulness in word and action,” or “filial affection."

What teaching power is required for a mixed school with an average attendance of 50 children over seven years of age. and 27 under that age? How should such a school be organised? What space (cubic and square) should be provided for the children? and what amount of desk and gallery accommodation ?

Make a time table for the above school.

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47. Explain as to a class of infants the motions of the earth; illustrate by a diagram.

48. Write notes of a lesson to a class of little children on a map.

49. Draw an outline map of the county in which the training school is situated. Mark the rivers and elevated ground within the county.

50. Illustrate, from objects within the comprehension of little children, the formation of a river.

51. State accurately the object for which School Registers are kept. The different Registers required in a school. The hour (morning and afternoon) at which Registers should be marked. Why Registers should be taken in ink; and never be touched after the school meeting for which they are marked.

52. Describe the principles on which writing should be taught to children; state the different kinds of lines employed in the formation of letters, and classify the different letters in groups, as they should be explained to children.

53. Shew clearly the methods (a) by which a mistress may ascertain with accuracy the errors made by each child in a dictation exercise, (b) by which each of those errors may be corrected; and state the proportion of time which should be allotted to this por

tion of the lesson.

54. Name the principal methods in common use for teaching reading to children; explain the methods adopted in your school, (practising or other); and describe briefly the particular benefit of these methods.

55. With what special objects should the Reading Books in a school be selected? What books supply especially this desired object? Give examples to

prove your answer.

56. By what methods may Spelling be successfully

taught to children? and with what lessons may it be united?

57. "Learning by heart ". What time should be given to this subject? With what object would you set apart a given time? And what lessons should be thus learnt?

58. What particular benefit is gained by "Object Lessons?" On what principle should these lessons

be given?

59. Explain the term "Notes of a Lesson." State the principle on which "Notes of Lessons" should be drawn up; and write notes of a lesson on one of the following subjects:-The verb, the sheep, the human eye, the flax plant.

60. Write notes of a lesson on one of the following passages:- (1) "The British Isles form an extensive cluster of Islands situated in the Atlantic Ocean, to the north-west of continental Europe." (2) art of printing with movable types was invented about the middle of the fifteenth century."

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61. On what principal should "Number" be taught to infants? At what period of school life should all objects be put aside in teaching arithmetic, the counting of figures be strictly prohibited, and abstract numbers alone used.

62. What teaching power would be required for an infant school of 170 children? What apparatus, books, cards, &c., would be essential? And what space would be required in the chief school room and class rooms?

63. What subjects may be successfully taught in an infant school, and to what extent may they be carried ?

SCHOOL MANAGEMENT.-MALES.

1. What written exercises are required of children in Standards I., II., and III. respectively? Show how the slates should be ruled for use in each class.