FACULTY OF EDUCATION.

NATURE STUDY

1. The Cat is the topic for study in a third book class. Discuss the teacher's preparation. Give titles and aims of the lessons you would teach. Teach your first lesson.

2. Outline your method of teaching Distribution of Fruits and Seeds to a third book class.

ELEMENTARY SCIENCE.

Answer one question from each subject and a total of four

questions.
Zoology.

Give

1. The subject for study in Form I is the Fish. your method of conducting the work, stating definitely the information you would expect the class to get from the lessons.

2. You have chosen the House-fly, as a type of injurious insects, for study in Form II. What class exercises would you conduct? Describe the life-history and the economic importance of House-flies.

Botany.

3. Outline a lesson on the kinds of Fleshy Fruits, describing and giving two examples of each kind.

4. The topic for study is the Mushroom. How would you conduct the work? Give the information you would expect your class to have at the conclusion of the lesson.

Physics.

5. Describe the experiments you would use in teaching the conditions under which a body will float. conditions.

State the

6. The topic for study is changing from the Fahrenheit to the Centigrade scale of temperature. Briefly indicate the preliminary work you would recall. Solve the following with your class: Change 77°F. to the Centigrade scale.

FACULTY OF EDUCATION.

SCHOOL MANAGEMENT AND SCHOOL LAW.

Cnadidates will naswer any five questions.

1. (a) What activities of the Public School should be reduced to a mechanical routine?

(b) What benefits are derived from this routine?

(c) By what means can this automatism be most quickly and effectively established?

2. (a) What criteria should be regarded in making promotions in the Public School?

(b) By whom and in what way can the pupil's qualifications for promotion be best determined?

3. Discuss means of discipline in a High School regarding particularly the questions of neglect of work, inattention, deliberate insubordination, and deceit.

4. Discuss the factors involved in making a time-table for a Secondary School and, in particular, the allotment of time for various subjects for a Junior Matriculation class.

5. State the provisions of the School Law and Regulations relating to (a) admission of students to a High School, (b) qualifications of a Principal and Assistants of High and Continuation Schools.

6. (a) Describe the courses of study open to a pupil in an Ontario High School.

(b) Explain the organization and local management of Industrial and Commercial Schools and Courses in Ontario.

7. What are the duties of the teacher with regard to:

(a) unauthorized text-books;

(b) attendance at Teachers' Institutes;

(c) suspected cases of infectious disease?

8. Point out the advantages and disadvantages of class instruction as compared with individual instruction and describe as fully as you can means by which the disadvantages may be minimized.

9. Describe the origin of the Ontario High School and outline its development with regard especially to (a) the curriculum, (b) its financial support, (c) central and local control.

FACULTY OF EDUCATION.

PSYCHOLOGY AND GENERAL METHOD.

Answer any five questions.

1. (a) Explain and illustrate the phenomenon of apperception.

(b) "As nine-tenths of human life and learning illustrates the general law of association, so nine-tenths of teaching illustrates the use or abuse of the law of apperception." Discuss this statement.

2. (a) Name the chief factors (both physiological and psychological) involved in the perception of distance.

(b) "One of the best illustrations of the perception of particular things is to be found in reading." Discuss this statement and mention the three stages involved in learning to read.

3. (a) Name the chief laws of rote-learning and show their importance for school-room work.

(b) Outline the advantages of logical, as contrasted with rote, learning.

(c) What evidence have we for assuming that one never absolutely forgets anything he has once learned? What are the advantages of forgetting?

4. (a) Distinguish between reasoning, memory, and imagination. On what grounds is it believed that the power of reasoning (in the strictest sense) does not exist in animals?

(b) Explain briefly the place of the concept in reasoning. What are some of the different theories of the nature of the concept?