APPENDIX A. previously trained at the Normal Establishment, or shall have been pronounced duly qualified by the Inspector of the II. Rules and Commission ers. 3. Teachers selected by the Commissioners for admission to the Normal Establishment, must produce a Certificate of good character from the officiating Clergyman of the communion to which they belong; and must pass through an examination in the Books published by the Commissioners. They are to be boarded and lodged at the establishments provided by the Board for the purpose, in Dublin, and at Glasnevin in the immediate neighbourhood of Dublin, to which latter, an Agricultural Department is attached. They are to receive religious instruction from their respective Pastors, who attend on Tuesdays at the Normal Establishment; and on Sundays they are required to attend their respective places of Worship; and a vigilant superintendence is at all times exercised over their moral conduct. 4. They are to attend upon five days in the week at the Training and Model Schools, where lectures are delivered on different branches of knowledge, and where they are prac tised in the art of Teaching. They are to receive instruction in Agriculture daily, and they at end on Saturdays at the Farm, at Glasnevin, which is conducted under the direction of the Commissioners, and where they see theory reduced to practice. They undergo a final examination at the close of their course, and each will then receive a certificate according to his deserts. The course of training at present occupies a period of four months and a half, and for a considerable time previous to their being summoned, they are required to prepare themselves for the course. 5. Teachers of Schools unconnected with the National Board, if properly recommended, are also admitted to attend the Normal Establishment, as day pupils, without any change for tuition; but such persons maintain themselves at their own expense. 6. All Teachers, appointed after the 1st of April, 1851, who have not been previously classed by the Professors or by a Board of Inspectors, shall be paid as Probationers, until they be examined at the first General or Special Examination held in the district subsequently to their appointment. Those who then obtain classification, will be paid from the commencement of their service under the Board according to the rate of salary attached to their class. 7. This rule will not extend to any teachers who, when summoned, shall fail, from any cause whatever, to present themselves for examination. 8. All Teachers who have been unsuccessful at their first examination, and who may be retained on trial, shall receive the salary of the class to which they may be promoted, at APPENDIX A. any subsequent examination, from the commencement of the II. Rules and quarter in which their classification shall be determined. Regulations of ers. 9. Teachers who after their first examination have been Commissionretained on trial as Probationers, if not recommended for promotion by the Head or District Inspectors, at the next ensuing examination, or by the Professors after training, cannot be continued in the service of the Board; but their salaries will be paid for one month subsequent to the date of dismissal. 10. All newly appointed Teachers who, after examination by the Inspectors, may be found wholly unqualified, shall be paid salary up to the close of the month in which the Commissioners refuse to sanction their appointment. 11. The Pupil Teachers of District Model Schools, on taking charge of National Schools after the completion of their course of training, shall rank as Third Class Teachers (provided they be deemed qualified for that class by the Head Inspector) until they shall have been classed it the first General or Special Examination held after their appointment in the district in which their Schools are situated, from which date they will be paid according to their classification. 12. All Teachers must remain at least one year in a lower division of any class, before they are eligible for examination with a view to promotion to a higher division; and they must remain two years in a class before they can become candidates for a higher class. These conditions, however, being fulfilled, Teachers of superior attainments may be advanced from any division of one class to any division of another after their first classification (except untrained Teachers who cannot be placed in the First Class) without requiring them to pass through the intermediate divisions. 13. This regulation does not apply to Teachers who may be promoted on the recommendation of the Professors at the termination of their course of training. 14. All Teachers, except Probationers, recommended for promotion after a course of training, will receive the increase of salary from the commencement of the quarter in which they are classed by the Professors. 15. No Teachers can be raised to any division of the First Class, unless they shall have been trained at the Normal School of the Commissioners, and recommended for promotion by the Professors at the end of the course of training, or by a Board of Inspectors. 16. The Commissioners have determined upon a course of study for each class, in which the teachers are to be examined as a test of their fitness for promotion; but their general conduct, the condition of their respective schools, their me VOL. I. C APPENDIX A. thod of conducting them, and the daily average attendance of pupils will also be taken into consideration. II. Rules and 17. No Teacher will be admitted to examination, with a view to promotion, on whose School a decidedly unfavorable report has been made by the District Inspector within the previous year. 18. Teachers will not be eligible for promotion, unless, in addition to satisfactory answering in the course prescribed for the Class to which they aspire, it appears from the reports of their respective District Inspectors, that their Schools are properly organized and well conducted; that adequate exertions have been made to keep up a sufficient average attendance; that their junior classes are carefully taught, and that a fair proportion of the pupils of the higher Classes, besides being proficients in the ordinary branches of Reading, Spelling, and Writing, are possessed of a respectable amount of knowledge in, at least, Grammar, Geography, and Arithmetic. In Female Schools it will be further requisite that instruction in plain Needlework, including sewing, knitting, and cutting out, be given to all girls capable of receiving it, and that they exhibit a due proficiency in this department. 19. It must also appear from the reports of their Inspectors, that their School Accounts have been regularly and correctly kept, that their Schools and School premises have been preserved with neatness and order, and that cleanliness in person and habits has been enforced on the children attending them. 20. Satisfactory Certificates of conduct and character will be required of all Candidates. 21. Every National Teacher will be furnished, on application to the District Inspector, with a copy of the programme of the course of study above referred to, in which is stated the minimum of proficiency required for each class. 22. The Head and District Inspectors are authorized to recommend that such Teachers be removed, fined, or lowered in their classification as may have conducted themselves improperly, or in whose Schools the attendance has considerably decreased, or who, from any other cause, may seem to these officers to merit such punishment. 23. Salaries are granted by the Commissioners to the Teachers individually. No new Teacher therefore, is to receive a Salary from them unless they have first approved of him; the amount is regulated by the Class in which he may be placed. 2. SALARIES AND GRATUITIES TO TEACHERS AND PAID MONITORS. 1. The Commissioners grant salaries and gratuities to Teachers and to Paid Monitors of National Schools at the following rates, subject to the foregoing and annexed regu- APPENDIX A. lations: Ordinary National Schools. Males. Females. 1st Division,£35 ...£24 per Annum. First Class Teachers, 2nd Do. 28 20 II. Rules and ers. ... 21 16 19 17 14 15 11 Probationary Teachers, Assistant Teachers, if qualified as if qualified for any Division ... of a higher Class, Mistresses to Teach Needle-work, 2. The Commissioners require that a further income be secured to the Teacher, either by Local Subscription or School-fees, to such amount in each case as they may direct; and the Commissioners also require that the payments made by the Children shall not be diminished in consequence of any increase of Salary which may be awarded to the Teacher. Agricultural Schools. 1. Masters of Agricultural Model Schools who are compe. tent to conduct both the Literary and Agricultural Departments are, whatever may be their classification, to receive £10 per annum, in addition to the salary of the class in which they may be placed; and provided their income from the Board, with this addition, should fall short of £30 per annum, the difference will be granted to them, so that, in all cases, such teachers shall have secured to them for their combined services a salary of £30 a-year at least. 2. Masters of National Schools, having a small portion of land annexed to their Schools, consisting of from two to three acres, for the purpose of affording agricultural instruction, will receive £5 per annum, in addition to the salary of their class, provided they are competent to conduct both the Literary and Agricultural Departments, and the Commissioners shall have previously approved of Agriculture being taught in the School. 3. In cases where a sufficient number of acres of land are attached to Workhouse Schools in connexion with the National Board of Education, the Commissioners award annual gratuities, not exceeding £15 to each, to such of the Agri APPENDIX A. cultural Teachers who shall be recommended as deserving of them by the Agricultural Inspectors. II. Rules and Regulations of Assistant Teachers. Salary not to exceed £15 for males, and £13 for females. 1. The Commissioners will not grant a higher rate of Salary than the above to an Assistant Teacher, even if classed; nor will they consider any application for a grant of Salary to an Assistant in any School in which there is not a daily average attendance of at least seventy-five Pupils; and in Schools whose average attendance does not rise considerably above this, and which are already provided with Paid Monitors, Assistants cannot be recognized by the Board. 2. When applications for an Assistant are laid before the Commissioners, they will determine whether it will not be more advisable to appoint a Paid Monitor. 3. Assistant Teachers will not be sanctioned whose quali fications are not at least equal to those required of Prola tioners. Salary, £ per annum. Workmistresses. 1. The Commissioners will not grant Salary to Workmistresses, unless there be a sufficient daily average attendance of Pupils, and the Commissioners require that at least two hours each day be devoted by them to instruction in this branch. 2. In Schools attended by Female Children only, under the care of a Female Teacher, such Teacher must be conipetent not only to conduct the Literary Department, but also to give instruction in Needlework. Schools in Connexion with Religious Bodies. 1. In Schools of this description, salary is paid according to a per centage on the daily average attendance: £20 per annum for 100 daily average, £40 200 And for every 50 over 600 at the rate of £15 per cent. Industrial Schools. 1. In National Schools where embroidery and other high branches of Needlework are taught, the amount of Salary granted for giving such instruction is regulated by the nature of the work, and the number of Pupils engaged in it. |