Of the staff of the school
Art. 15. The normal school for women teachers in Nueva-Cáceres shall
be organized under the direction of the sisters of charity, and shall
make use of the elements of the staff and equipment of the school of
Santa Isabel.
Art. 16. The staff of the normal school shall consist of the following:
1. A directress, who shall have charge of the teachers, scholars,
and inferior employes of the institution. In her charge shall be
the economic part, the direction, order, and discipline of the same,
and the allowances which correspond to it, according to the schedule
and regulations of the school.
The directress shall preside over the literary ceremonies of the school
whenever the provincial chief, the reverend bishop of Nueva-Cáceres, or
the board of supervision and oversight, does not attend them. She shall
visit the classes and the practice school, in order to investigate the
explanations of the teachers and the progress of the scholars. She
shall correct those faults which she observes, and recommend to the
board of supervision and oversight the expulsion of those pupils
in the cases and conditions which are expressed in the interior
regulations of the school, informing the above-mentioned board of
the extraordinary measures which she believes it necessary to take.
2. A head teacher in the practice school, in charge of the
communication of the teaching to the girls, responsible for their
instruction, and for order and discipline in her department.
She must employ herself in the direction and management of the teaching
of systems, methods, and processes determined upon in the board of
instructresses, always with the approval and under the presidency
and immediate authority of the directress.
The head teacher shall also have the duty of carrying out the orders
of the schedule in reference to the practice of those scholars who
are candidates for teachers, and shall explain the studies determined
by paragraphs 2 and 3 of article 5.
3. Three teachers for the theoretical and practical teaching of
the studies included in the school schedule, except those which the
directress, the regent of the practice school, and the professor of
religion and ethics have under their charge.
4. Two assistant teachers for the practice school, one for the upper
section, and the other for the elementary section.
5. One virtuous and learned secular who shall be charged by the
reverend diocesan bishop with the teaching of religion, ethics,
and sacred history.
6. A sister to act as portress and the women servants or subordinates
who are considered indispensable.
Art. 17. The interior regulations shall assign to each one of the
teachers the duties which they shall have in charge for the moral
and religious education of the scholars, whom they shall accompany,
and watch during study hours, recreation hours, and during the other
occupations prescribed by the same interior regulations.