The Examination for Certificates will commence on Monday, the 17th of December, 1877, at 3 P.M. This Syllabus shows the extent of the examination, but Acting Teachers may obtain Certificates who can answer plain and simple questions confined to the following subjects: 1. English History (leading facts). 2. Geography (elements of, and British). 3. Arithmetic (including proportion, practice, vulgar and decimal fractions). 4. English Composition, Spelling, and Parsing. 5. The Management of a School, including, in all cases, questions under Sections 2 b, and 3 of the second year's paper on this subject. Special attention is directed to the requirements of the Code (Article 19 a) respecting discip- "To meet the requirements respecting discipline, the managers and teachers will be expected to All candidates must pass reasonably well in Reading and Handwriting. Acting Teachers attending the examination may, at their option, take the papers of the first or second Year. In the former they will find plain and simple questions specially noted for them. The relative proficiency of the candidates according to examination, and whether they take the papers of the first or second year, is recorded in their certificates. Grammar Composition 6. Geography 7. History 8. Arithmetic (first year) 9. Algebra and Mensuration (first year) 8 and 9 combined (second year) SECOND YEAR. Special Subjects for Students. Teaching.-100 marks are given for a good Report by H. M. Inspector on a Student's practical skill as a Teacher, failure in which excludes candidates from a certificate. Music.-30 marks will be assigned for practical skill exhibited in the Musical Inspector's Examination, failure in which involves exclusion from the Christmas Examination in the Theory of Music. Excellent" is in every case 25 per cent. above "Good." § Excludes Candidates from a Certificate. To read a passage in prose, and another in verse, with a distinct utterance, due attention to the punctuation, and just expression. Each student must have learned at least 300 consecutive lines of poetry from the work selected under Grammar (section 2), some of which he will be called upon to repeat at the Annual Inspection of the Training College. Second Year. Candidates will be expected to shew improvement in the higher qualities of Reading, such as expression, modulation of voice, and the correct delivery of long or involved sentences. Each student must have learned at least 300 consecutive lines of poetry, or 200 consecutive lines of prose from the work selected under Grammar (section 1), and will be called upon to repeat some part at the annual Inspection of the Training College. PENMANSHIP. First Year. 1. To write a specimen of the penmanship used in setting copies of text hand and small hand. 2. The general character of the writing in the Examination papers. Second Year. As in First Year, but defects more severely visited with loss of marks. NOTE.-Writing, as taught in schools, is apt to be too small and indistinct. The handwriting which was generally practised in the early part and middle of the last century was far better than that now in common use. Pupils should be taught to write a firm, round, legible hand. 1. To answer questions on the best methods of teaching Reading, Spelling, Writing, Arithmetic, 2. To answer questions on the art of oral teaching generally. 3. To write notes of a lesson on Sanitary questions, investment of savings, and "Common Things." Second Year. 1. To teach a class in the presence of Her Majesty's Inspector. † 2. To answer questions in writing on the following subjects: a. The different methods of organizing an elementary school. b. The form of school registers, the mode of keeping them, and making Returns from them. 3. Questions connected with moral discipline, as affecting the character and conduct of children. * Passages taken from Reading Lesson Books commonly used in schools, may be given in the papers on + Students of the second year who are to be examined on the papers of the first year (Article 105) must also teach a class in the presence of Her Majesty's Inspector. 1. The elements of grammar. 2. To parse words selected from a passage in Wordsworth's Excursion, Book III., or Lamb's Last Essays of Elia. (December, 1877).‡ 3. To paraphrase a passage from the Book selected (1877), to convert it into the order of prose, and to analyse an easy passage. 4. To write plain prose upon a given subject. Second Year. 1. To paraphrase (December, 1877) a passage from Shakspeare's Tempest, or Addison's Essay on the Imagination.'‡ 2. To analyse the same passage. 3. To answer questions on the language, style, and subject-matter of the work chosen for paraphrase and analysis. 4. To write plain prose upon a given subject. The work from each author will be given; either (not both) may be taken by the candidate. + A passage selected should be carefully read through in short portions, in illustration of the English Grammar used. || This subject may be studied in "The Analysis of Sentences explained and simplified" (Longmans), or in many of the recently published grammars. |