Report of the Minister of Education, Ontario, 1936
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Bowman, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty 1937 — —— — TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE @k »ORT OF THE MINISTER 1 APPENDICES PART I 2kjippEndix A Report op the Chief Inspector of Public and Separate Schools 5 Appendix B Report of the Chief Inspector of Secondary Schools 19 Appendix C Report of the Director of Professional Training 26 Appendix D Report of the Director of French Instruction on the Schools At- tended by French-Speaking Pupils 30 Appendix E Ontario Training College for Technical Teachers 35 Appendix F Report of the Inspector of Agricultural Classes 36 Appendix G Report of the Inspector of Auxiliary Classes 42 Appendix H Report of the Director of School Attendance 51 Appendix I Report of the Acting Inspector of Public Libraries 54 Appendix J Report of the Superintendent of the Ontario School for the Deaf ... 65 Appendix K Report of the Superintendent of the Ontario School for the Blind. 71 Appendix L Report of the Provincial Supervisor of Music 86 PART II General Statistics of Elementary, Secondary and Special Industrial Schools Summary 90 Average Unit Costs for the Year 1935 91 Comparative Statistics, 1912-1935 92 I. Elementary Schools 92 II. IIoman Catholic Separate Schools 95 III. Protestant Separate Schools 95 IV. Collegiate Institutes and High Schools 95 V. Continuation Schools 97 VI. Vocational and Special Industrial Schools 98 VII. Fifth Classes 99 VIII. Normal and Normal-Model Schools 99 IX. Hight School Entrance Examination Results 99 X. Teachers' Institutes ....'. 100 XI. Superannuated Teachers 100 XII. Adolescent Pupil Attendance and Exemptions 100 XIII. Relation of Compulsory Attendance to Total Enrolment and Provincial Population 100 XIV. Pupil Movement 101 XV. Professional Certificates Issued During the Last Ten Years 101 XVI. Departmental Summer Courses' Enrolment in Recent Years 102 XVII. Tendency Toward Higher Grading of Teachers' Certificates in Schools Attended by French-Speaking Pupils 102 XVIII. General Statistical Abstract 103 Detailed Statistics I. Elementary Schools: A. Public and Separate Schools: Table 1 —Enrolment and Attendance of Pupils 104 Table 2—Admissions, Transfers, Retirements and Exemptions of Pupils 110 Table 3—Age-Grade Distribution Ill Table 4—Distribution of Teachers and Certificates 112 Table 5—Fifth Classes 114 Table 6—High School Entrance Examination Results 118 Table 7—School Health Inspection 124 Table 8—Classification of Rural Schools by Teachers and Attendance 127 Table 9—Educational and Health Equipment 128 Table 10—Nature Study and Agriculture, Vocal Music, Manual Training and Household Science in Rural Schools 135 [iii] : . iv TABLE OF CONTENTS No. 11 Detailed Statistics— Continued page B. Public Schools: Table 11—Financial Statistics 138 Table 12—Percentage Analysis of Current Expenditures, in Cities and Large Towns 157 Table 13—Age-Grade Distribution 158 Table 14—Teachers' Salaries—highest, lowest, average 161 Table 15—Teachers' Salaries—range 163 Table 16—Promotion and Retardation, Cities 164 Table 17—City Trend Toward First Class Certificated Teachers 166 Table 18—Night Schools 166 Table 19—Protestant Separate Schools 167 Table 20—Low Attendance Schools 168 Table 21—Consolidated Schools 170 C. Roman Catholic Separate Schools Table 22—Financial Statistics 174 Table 23—Age-Grade Distribution 182 Table 24—Teachers' Salaries 185 II. Secondary Schools: A. Collegiate Institutes and High Schools: Table 25—Enrolment, Attendance, Grading, etc 186 Table 26—Classification of Pupils by Subjects of Study 190 Table 27—Admissions, Transfers, Retirements 191 Table 28—Night Schools 191 Table 29—Financial Statistics 192 Table 30—Age-Grade Distribution 200 B. Continuation Schools: Table 31—Enrolment, Attendance, Grading, etc 201 Table 32—Classification of Pupils by Subjects of Study 204 Table 33—Admissions, Transfers, Retirements 204 Table 34—Age-Grade Distribution 205 Table 35—Financial Statistics 206 C. Vocational Schools: Table 36—Day Schools; Teachers; Pupils' Enrolment, Attendance, Grading ... 214 Table 37—Day Schools; Financial Statistics 216 Table 38—Day Schools; Classification of Pupils by Subjects of Study 218 Table 39—Day Schools; Part-time and Special Pupils 219 Table 40—Day Schools; Admissions, Retirements 219 Table 41—Night Schools; Teachers and Pupils 220 Table 42—Age-Grade Distribution, Full-time Day School Pupils 222 Table 43—Night Schools; Classification of Pupils by Subjects of Study 223 III. Special Industrial Schools: Table 44—Schools, Teachers, Pupils 224 Table 45—Age-Grade Distribution 224 Table 46—Financial Statistics 224 IV. Miscellaneous Table 47—Departmental Examination Results 226 Table 48—Professional Certificates Issued 230 Table 49—Salary Range, Secondary School Teachers 231 Table 50—Boards of Education 232 Table 51—Classification of Urban School Centres 233 Table 52—Inspectors and Inspectorates 237 REPORT OF THE Minister of Education FOR THE YEAR 1936 To The Honourable Herbert Alexander Bruce, M.D., Colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps, F.R.C.S. (Eng.), Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Ontario. Your Honour,— I beg leave to present to Your Honour the Report of the Department of Education for the year 1936. The attendance at the Normal Schools for the session of 1936-37 was 1,082, being 155 below that of the session of 1935-36, which totaled 1,237. This decrease is due partly to improving economic conditions, partly to the realiza- tion that the profession is already overcrowded, and partly to the fact that the requirements for admission have been raised. While the quantity has diminished, the quality, as measured by mental ability, has improved. The only Normal vSchool showing an increase in attendance for the year was that of the University of Ottawa. This school has been responsible, within the last ten years, for increasing the percentage of First and Second Class teachers in the schools attended by French-speaking pupils from 13 per cent, to 75 per cent. Its standards are fully equal to those of the other Normal Schools, and so excellent is the command of English possessed by its students that it is difficult to dis- tinguish the class-room work in this subject from that of the other training schools. There has been a general improvement in the qualifications of teachers throughout the Province. Large numbers of those possessing Second Class standing are undertaking through private study and through attendance at the summer courses offered by the Department to become possessors of First Class Interim certificates, while those with First Class Interim certificates are pro- ceeding by similar means with the first year's University work necessary for the completion of their permanent standing. It is a tribute to the ambition, in- dustry, and enthusiasm of such teachers that over 5,000 attended Departmental summer courses in 1936 and that at least an equal number attended courses given by the Universities. This means that about half of the teachers in the Province used part of their vacation to improve their academic standing. Hi 2 THE REPORT OF THE No. 11 Up to the present year the "single lesson" plan for practice teaching was in operation. One lesson a week was taught and, towards the end of the session, every student was given a continuous half-day's practice. This method was good training in the technique of teaching but was weak in that it failed to train the prospective teacher for teaching a series of lessons or to become acquainted with real problems in administration and with practical direction of activities. The plan adopted for the session of 1936-37 is to have the student teach six or eight single lessons to familiarize him with the main principles of teaching and to afford an opportunity for obtaining some control in technique. The student body of each school is divided into four sections and after the pre- liminary practice mentioned above each section in succession is sent for a week at a time and in groups of two or three to the practice schools. Here the first day is spent in observation. On the second the student teaches at least one lesson and each succeeding day the number of lessons is increased until finally each student is given complete charge of the room for a whole half-day. The section then returns to the Normal school for three weeks while the other three sections, in succession, go into the practice schools. This routine is continued till the end of the school year. The practice teaching includes discussions on the lessons taught with the critic teacher in charge of the room. To avoid undue strain on critic teachers practice teaching in any given room is confined to alternate weeks. The change is proving satisfactory as it provides for better practical training under less artificial conditions than those prevailing under the former plan. The student, moreover, is given an opportunity of acquiring some skill in continuous work. For some years it has been the practice of the Department to pass on the recommendation of the Normal School staffs students who have made at least 60 per cent, on sessional tests while those who failed to attain this standing were required to write on final examinations set by the Department and read by the staffs. Under the new scheme adopted for the session of 1936-37 such students will still write on the final Departmental examinations but the papers will be read by committees of Normal School teachers on a plan somewhat similar to that employed in Departmental High School examinations.