First Semester.

School Economy—Opening and closing School, Seating Pupils, Signals, Filing, Order during Recitation. General order of School—Whispering, other Communication, Prompting, Absence, Tardiness, Recesses, Supervision of Pupils on the play ground. Care of Pupils in going to, and returning from, school. Cooperation of Teachers and Parents. Arrangement of programme. Time given to differ- page 76 ent classes as dependent on age of pupils, size of classes, nature of the study, [unclear: etc.] Alternation of Study and Recitation. Change of Employment. School [unclear: Records.] Reports to Parents; to School Officers. Prizes and Rewards. Punishment. [unclear: Incentives] to Study, to good conduct. Cultivation of Habits of Promptness, [unclear: Neatness] Order, Industry, Self-reliance and Self-control, etc., etc.

Abstracts of lectures will be required, also two essays on assigned topics.

Second Semester.

General Principles governing the presentation of Subjects of Instruction. [unclear: The] Recitation, its mechanism, its purpose. The Lecture System of Teaching, [unclear: the] Catechetical Method, the Method by Dialogue. Preparation for Recitation—that [unclear: of] Teacher, that of Pupil. Supervision of Pupil's Study. Questions and [unclear: answers] their Form and Contents. Immediate Results to be sought in class work, [unclear: Mental] and Moral habits to be cultivated thereby, attention, clearness of expression, [unclear: concentration,] exactness, Self-reliance, Truthfulness. Assignment of Lessons, [unclear: Written] and Oral Examinations, Home Work.

School Law: Legal Qualifications, Duties and Rights of Teachers, [unclear: Elections] Compensation and Duties of County Commissioners, Boards of Directors, State [unclear: Superintendent,] etc. Annual Meetings, School Warrants, Care of School [unclear: Property,] Investment of School Moneys, etc., etc.

There will be required monthly essays on assigned topics.

The students will prepare abstracts of all lectures given during the Semester [unclear: and] will submit their note-books for examination and grading.

One Teaching exercise will be required of each student at sometime in the [unclear: course] of the Semester.