Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-06-08
Department of Public instruction

ITO Superintendants aud Teachers Of
Public Schools.
l. The Uniform Examination
for applicants for certificates to
teach in the public schools of the
Commonwealth will be held on
Tuesday and Wednesday, June
both. and 9th. for white teachers;
and on Thursday and Friday, June
2Sth and 29th, for colored teachers,
Applicants will be examined or
photography, reading. writing,
arithmetic, grammar, geography,
history Of the United States, civil
government, physiology and by
giene. and for first and-second grade
certificates on the theory and prac-
tlce Of teaching also.
2. Teachers holding second and
third grade certificates that are
about to expire will be required to
stand the uniform examination,
and 10 teacher will be permitted to
/ hold third grade certificate longer
than one year. In other words,
teachers who have held a third
grade certificate one year and who
Oh u subsequent EXAMINATION do
not make a Higher grade certificate
must be droppcd from the list OF
eligible candidates for positions as
teachers in the public schools.
B. Teachers whose first grade GER
tificate are about to expire must
either take the uniform examlna-
ton Or agree TO enter at once on
the prosecution of the professional
Course Of Study outlined i'll Circu-
lars 1873 and 100. Teachers, how
ever are strenuously urged to pur-
sue the Professional Course, as It
will tend. greatly to increase their
efficiency in the school-room and
practically relieve them from furth-
er examination. Persons holding
first grade certificates may have
them renewed from year to year till
the Professional Course is COM
pleted. the examination on the
studies Of the first year Of the Pro-
feSsional Course will be held about
the last of August. and not in June
80 horptofOrp lnDOnncpd
The subject in this course on
which applicants will be examined
this wear are Myers's General His
tory, FIske's Civil Government,
History Of English Literature to
the Death Of Addison (lYl0).
Shakspere's Macbeth. First Two
Books Of Millions Paradise Lost,
Addison's Sir Rodgez de Co0erley
Papers, DeQuincey's Flight Of a
Tartar Tribe, and Scott's lyanhoe.
Those who prefer to do SO may dis
tribute tie General History
throughout the course, taking one
third Of the book each wear. Those
who divide the history i'll this way
should be prepared to stand exam
ination on the text from the be-
ginl.ing Of the book to the close Of
the Third Punic War (page 272).
4. The usual examination for
State certificates aud life diplomas
will be held as heretofore at or
near the close of the Summer Nor
nal Institutes. Those who have
begun these examinations, and
those who expect to begin them,
will do we'll to make careful and
systematic preparation for them by
studying the most improved text
books on the various branches.
Applicants for professional cer-
tifcates will be examined on Orthog-
raphy, reading, arithmetic, gram
mar, geography, history Of the
United States, general history, al
zebra, physiology, civil govern
ment, Virginia school laws, theory
and practice of teaching. This
course must be completed in two
consecutive years; and the subjects
may be saken III such order as the
candidate may elect. No teachers
certificate is required for admission
to these examinations, since they
include all the subjects required for
a first grade certificate.
Any one who has obtained a
State certificate may obtain life
diploma by passing examinations
on geometry, natural history, bot
any, psychology, English litera-
ture composition and rhetoric.
Diplomas and certificates will be
issued 10 applicants who show a
standing Of seventy-fve per cent.
IN reading, writing. spelling, arith-
metic, grammar, geograpy, history,
algebra, and physiology, and an
average of seventy five per cent, in
the other branches required, and
who do not fall below fifty per
cent. on any one subject. All per-
sons intending to take this exami-
nation should notify the conductor
of the institute where the exami-
nation is to be taken. Such notice
should be given not later than ten