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1. The standard of admission, Certificate Examination should be Examination.

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previously the Hong Kong University School altered to the Hong Kong School Certificate

2. The Method Lecturer should be required and empowered to visit all students in their respective schools, observe them at work before classes, and render advice and help. Any Student Teacher in the First Year who evinced no signs of ever developing into a useful member of the profession should be advised to seek other occupation, and, in any case, refused permission to attend further E.I. Classes.

The co-operation of Heads of Schools should be solicited in this matter, and attention invited to the necessity of supervising Record Books and Notes of Lessons,

3. All or most of the lectures of these classes ought to be held in School Hours. To avoid undue depletion of Student Teacher Staff from schools, it would be advisable to hold lectures for only one Year" at any one time.

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4. The Course of Lectures in Method and Class Management should be revised with a view to emphasizing the instruction in the Teaching of English as a foreign language. In this connexion the study of English Literature could be much reduced and the resultant available lecture time devoted to Speech Training, which would include the elementary principles of Phonetics.

5. The discussion in class of the General Principles underlying Educational Practice should follow, and not precede, instruction in the Methods of teaching various ordinary school subjects, viz., English, Arithmetic, Geography and History. The curriculum should be altered accordingly.

6. Model and Criticism Lessons should be held occasionally in all years, and more especially in the 3rd year. The annual examination in the latter should continue to embrace a test in Practical Teaching.

7. An Oral Test in English should be an essential part of the Annual Examina- tion in each year.

8. A revision of the Syllabus on the above lines should be drawn up by the Director on the basis of suggestions from the lecturers and brought into use next term, i.e., Autumn 1938.

J. RALSTON,

Director, Evening Institute.

11th March, 1938.

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TEACHERS' CLASSES (ENGLISH).

These Classes are for both men and women Teachers. The Certificate granted at the end of the course is recognized by the Government, and the holder classified as "Passed Student Teacher". Instruction is given in Oral English, English Language and Literature, Psychology, School Method and Hygiene.

Students may be admitted to these classes although not actually engaged in the Teaching Profession; but all entrants must have passed the Hong Kong School Certificate Examination, or an equivalent examination. No student may proceed to a Second or a Third Year Class until the previous examination has been passed, with the following exceptions :—