to be naturally and logically arranged in the same order as we may suppose the learner would discover them without a teacher. With such an analysis, and so arranged, he is prepared to meet his class, and beginning with known elements, lead his pupils, step by step, to the unknown, using at the same time his best judgment and skill, that the various steps in progress are so graduated in difficulty, so as to be adapted to the capacities of the children under instruction. In Synthetic teaching no second step can be taken with success, till the first is clearly conceived of; and the skill of the teacher is tested not only in his power of giving a perfect exposition of each part of the lesson, but also in knowing exactly when he should pass from one to the other, without loss of time on the one hand, or over haste on the other. Besides the application of Synthesis to an entire lesson, it is of equal, or in the present state of clementary instruction, of even greater importance in the several parts of a lesson, whatever may be the subject of it. Thus in a reading lesson, a skilful teacher is ever employing the method of analysis, words are analysed, and so are sentences simple and complex. Now, it often happens, that difficult thoughts are analysed with considerable skill, but with a much less degree of profit than they would have been, if the elements resulting from the analytic process had been as skilfully reconstructed. This reconstruction should always follow an analysis. Suppose for example, a period of a reading lesson to have been fully and carefully analysed, with as much exposition as might be needed for a complete intelligence of the text; there should next follow a synthetical reconstruction of the entire elements, so that the whole of the ideas contained in the sentence, may receive a logical arrangement, and their relations, the one to the other, be clearly conceived of; that as there was first, by analysis, an intelligence of the parts, so now there may be, by synthesis, an equal intelligence of the whole. The synthetic part of the process is as necessary to secure a knowledge of the entire subject, as the analytic is to the knowledge of the elements; and no skilful teacher will fail to pay as much attention to the one as. to the other. Lambeth R. Examination Papers EXAMINATION OF PUPIL TEACHERS, CHELTENHAM. APPRENTICE AT END OF 3RD AND FOLLOWING YEARS. Write at top of your paper, your name, age, birth day, and School. Auswer one Question in cach Section. N.B. Girls are not required to answer Section IX. SECTION I. Write out a Report of the Class you teach, stating the attainments of the children in Arithmetic and Reading. SECTION II. Write out the notes of a lesson on one of these subjects: 1. The wars of the Houses of York and Ledger, and of Single Entry and Double Entry. SECTION XIII. If you have been taught drawing, make an outline sketch of some object in the room. APPRENTICE AT THE END OF 4TH YEAR. SECTION I. Write out a report of your School. State the modes adopted for teaching reading, for collecting the results of a dictation lesson, and for giving religious instruction. SECTION. II. What is meant by a Transitive Verb! -what by an Intransitive? Give instances of each. SECTION III. Parse accurately the words in italics in the following passage, and if you are able, paraphrase it: "If the deed were ill, Be you contented, wearing now the garland, To have a son set your decrees at nought; To pluck down justice from your To trip the course of law." Name the feet of which English verse is composed, with examples of each. SECTION V. Where are the following places, and in what way connected with English history? Pontefract Coventry Cardiff. SECTION VI. SECTION XII. Explain the meaning of a day book and ledger, and of single entry, and double entry. SECTION XII. Give a brief account of Elijah and triangle, the side 54 yards? What is the area of an equilateral Elisha. SECTION XIV. - Parallels. A Circle. A Parallelogram. An Obtuse Angle. SECTION XV. At a given point in a given straight line, to make a rectilineal angle, equal to a given rectilineal angle. SECTION XVI. If you have been taught drawing make an outline sketch of some object in the room. SECTION XVII. If the carriage of 6 cwt. 2 qrs. for 124 miles cost £3 4s. 8d., what weight should be carried 93 miles for £30 74d.? GENERAL EXAMINATION OF TRAINING SCHOOLS, CHRISTMAS, 1851. (SCHOOL MISTRESSES) ENGLISH HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS. SECTION I. 1. Describe briefly the state of Britain previous to the Roman Invasion. Name, and give some account of, the British chieftains who fought against the Romans. 2. Name the Saxon kings between Egbert and Harold. State one remarkable occurrence in the life of each. 3. Describe the changes that followed the establishment of the Norman dynasty. SECTION II. 1. Describe the character of Henry V., and enumerate the chief events of his reign. 2. Under what princes of the Plantagenet line were the greatest accessions made to the kingdom of England ? 3. What foreign princes were contemporary with James I.? What special relations existed between him and any of them? SECTION III. 1. Give some account of the queen of Charles I. 2. Describe the character and life of the Princes Elizabeth, daughter of James I. 3. Give some account of the battles of Newbury, Edgehill, and Marston Moor, with dates. SECTION IV. 1. What females were most distinguished for piety, courage, and conjugal affection during the Protectorate aud in the reign of Charles II? Give an account of one of these ladies. 2. Compare the character and fortunes of the Marquis of Montrose and Earl of Argyle in the 17th century. 3. What distinguished persons suffered the penalty of high treason under Charles II. Describe the character of one of them. SECTION V. 1. Describe the proceedings of Jefferies in the reign of James II. 1. How many yards of carpet 2 ft. 11 in. wide will it take to cover a square floor, one side of which is 12 ft. 7 in. 2. A tradesman having bought 200 eggs at 2 for a penny, and 200 at 3 for a penny, sold the whole at 5 for a penny. How much did he gain or lose by the transaction? 3. Find the interest on £286, from the 1st, of June to the 13th September, at 3 per cent. per annum. 1. How would you organize a school cf 100 children from 7 to 13 years of pupil-teachers in their second and age, supposing that you had two fourth years respectively? Draw a plan of the school-room you would the classes, and of the forms and prefer, showing the arrangement of desks. What subjects would you yourself teach, and what would you assign to your pupil-teachers? 2. What different methods have been devised for organising elementary schools? Illustrate your descriptions of these by diagrams, state which of them you yourself prefer, and the reason for that preference. 3. What objects should specially be kept in view in the organization of a school? What are the advantages resulting from a good organization, and what are those elements of a good school which no organization, however good, will secure? 1. What are the characteristic dangers of the schoolmaster's profession; 1st, with reference to himself; 2d, with referenee to his scholars? 2. In what respects may the selfishness of a teacher be prejudicial to the interests of his scholars and his own? What facilities are afforded to him for the indulgence of it? 3. What ground is there for having faith in education : 1st, from Scripture, 2dly, from reason. Considering the education of the children to be carried on partly at home and partly at school, state in what respects each of these two kinds of education has resources peculiar to itself, and advantages over the other. What reasonable ground is there for confidence in a good school education, even if it be counteracted by the education at home? PHYSICS. Section I. 1: What is the law of the reflexion of light? Account for the image of an object placed at any distance before a plane mirror, appearing at the same distance behind it, 1. What motion takes place in water when heat is applied to the bottom of the vessel which contains it? How is this applied in the hot-water apparatus for heating apartments? 2. Why does ice float on the surface of the water on which it is formed? What advantages result from this property of ice? Why is it that leaden pipes are burst when the water in them is frozen, and that rocks are disintegrated by the action of frost? 3. What is meant by the law of combining proportion in chemistry or chemical equivalents? Give examples of it, and of the chemical nomenclature formed in accordance with it. |