Subjects taught and duration of studies
Art. 4. The teaching of the normal school for women teachers in
Nueva-Cáceres shall be divided:
1. In teaching for candidates to the teaching profession.
2. In teaching for the scholars who are not candidates for teachers.
3. In teaching for girls.
Art. 5. The teaching for those included in paragraph 1 of the preceding
article shall include:
1. Religion, ethics, and sacred history.
2. Theory and practice in reading.
3. Theory and practice in writing.
4. Knowledge of the Castilian language, with exercises in analysis,
composition, and orthography.
5. Arithmetic, with the metric system of weights and measures and
their local equivalents.
6. Principles of geography, and history of España and Filipinas.
7. Principles of hygiene and domestic economy.
8. General principles of education and methods of teaching, and
their practical application in the girls' model school.
9. Work of all kinds suitable for women, especially those of the
most general utility and application to domestic life, such as
sewing, weaving, embroidery, the cutting of garments, and ironing.
10. Useful knowledge.
Art. 6. Teaching for girls shall include the same courses with the
exception of the general principles of education, and methods and
processes of teaching, such processes extending to the elementary
and superior grades.
Art. 7. In the lessons, exercises, and teaching practice, as well as
during the hours of recreation, and in the common intercourse among the
scholars within the school, only the Castilian language shall be used.
Art. 8. The studies mentioned in article 5 shall be pursued for three
years, in accordance with the schedule which shall be made out by
the instructresses of the school. That schedule, after having been
reported to the board of supervision and oversight, shall be sent
annually for the approval of the general government.
The course shall begin July 1, and end May fifteenth.
Art. 9. Every lesson given to the pupils of the normal school
shall necessarily consist of an explanation by the teacher, and of
intelligent recitation and practical application by the scholars.
Art. 10. The schedule of the school, and the distribution of time and
work during the same, shall determine the necessary practice of those
aspiring to become teachers in the girls' school, both as supervisors
of order and class, and as assistants or teachers, but always under
the direction of the head teacher.
The said schedule of the normal school shall determine the time which
the pupils are to devote to the practice school, but such time shall
never be less than four months for each term.
Art. 11. The scholars who are candidates for teachers may not pass
from one grade to another without having proved their sufficiency
in the general examination which shall be held at the end of every
scholastic year.
Art. 12. When studies have been finished in the manner dictated by
the schedule of the school, the scholars shall stand an examination in
order to obtain the corresponding certificate, and for those exercises
the fitting regulations shall be made.
Art. 13. If any one of the scholars who are candidates for teachers
wishes to continue one year longer in the school in order to perfect
and increase the knowledge which she has acquired, she may do so,
but under condition of paying the annual board from her possessions,
if she should be a boarder, and if it is not unadvisable in the
opinion of the directress that she remain in the institution.
Art. 14. The scholars of the normal school who shall have completed
the courses of their studies, and who shall have obtained for their
good deportment, application, and knowledge, the mark of excellent
in the final examinations of the three consecutive years, shall
receive teachers' certificates, with expression in the certificate
of their honorable mark. Such persons shall be empowered to take
charge of ascenso schools. Those who shall not have obtained the
mark of excellent, but that of good or fair in the above-mentioned
examinations, shall also receive teachers' certificates, with the
corresponding mark mentioned therein; and such persons may take charge
of entrada schools. If those who shall not have passed in the said
examinations, after the exercise has been repeated, shall deserve a
passing mark, they shall receive assistant teachers' certificates.