|
Regulations for the Protestant Schools of Montreal
Attendance of Teachers:
Each principal and teacher must be in school and in readiness to discharge any duty that may be required, fifteen minutes in the forenoon and ten minutes in the afternoon, before the time of opening of each session and must remain until every member of the class has left the building.
A roll of attendance of teachers must be kept by the Principal.
Teachers absent from duty are not entitled to payment of salary. Nevertheless, full salary may be paid during absence not exceeding 10 days. Teachers absent on account of illness will suffer no deduction of salary, provided such absence does not exceed three days in a month or six days in a year.
On the ground of ill health established by a medical certificate, the Board will grant to any female teacher who has been ten years or more in service, leave of absence without salary for a year.
As the Board expects the undivided attention of Principals and teachers to their work, it forbids the transaction of private business on the school premises or during school hours.
Visitors who desire to see members of the staff must apply at the Principal's office.
Text books: Every pupil is required to procure all such text books and other school requisites as are enumerated. In the case of deserving diligence, the Secretary-Superintendant may provide and lend, with due precaution for their preservation.
Infection:
Children suffering from loathsome or infectious disease, or living in houses or tenements where disease prevails, must be kept at home by their parents. Infection diseases are chicken pox, diptheria, croup, whooping cough, measles, German Measles, mumps, ring worm, scabies, pediculosis, scarlet fever, small pox, influenza, erysipelas, typhus, cholera and tuberculosis.
School Studies
The Board does not minutely direct the manner of giving instruction. It, however, reminds the teachers that class-work is not mere recitation, but is also, and to a great extent, study under the eye with the aid of a teacher. And forbids the giving of homework to any junior class that has not been carefully explained beforehand.
Every statement made to the class by the teacher must be so made as to arrest the attention and to convey a distinct and correct conception to the understanding. The memory must be trained to remember facts accurately and to recall expressions of sufficient importance whether for their concise truth or their beauty, with verbal exactness and with promptitude.
Discipline:
Discipline in the schools is founded on instruction in duty, and is maintained by appeals to reason and right moral feeling, aided by rewards to the diligent and obedient and reproofs to those neglectful or wilfully wrong and the expulsion of the incorrigible.
Examination and Tests:
Public oral examinations will be held from time to time as the Board directs.
In the Public Schools, written examinations shall be held at the end of the course. At their close; and in accordance with results, medals and scholarships shall be awarded.
In the classes of the Public Schools, Third to Six year inclusive, written tests shall be given semi-annually or oftener, and classes re-arranged in accordance with the results.
For all such examinations, the Board will furnish the questions and determine the manner in which marks are assigned.
First Year: Reading.
Sight reading and silent reading must be practiced in all grades and can be done best with aid of supplementary readers. Phonics - teach the sounds presented in Steps in the Phonics System, to page 31 and Modern Phonic Primer to page 28. Use the black board freely and let the matter in Modern Phonic Primer be taken only as practice after each sound is taught.
Royal Crown Reader:
Lesson V1
A dog ran at a cat; and bit it.
Bid him go and get my pen.
My hat is on a pin; is it not?
Yes, Sir, it is.
To do ill is a sin.
Excerpted from Documents on CIHM collection. Canadiana.org
|
|
