4. Plan for an Oblong Schoolroom.

This plan is intended to exhibit the principle upon which the groups of desks and squares are arranged in the plans for fitting schoolrooms, as laid down in the Minutes of the Committee of Council for 1844, vol. i. About one-half the room is occupied by desks, which run lengthwise through, with passages between each group; the other half is filled with class-squares.

Here the boys may receive their instruction during the afternoon in the desks, and in the squares marked (a) and (b), the girls occupying the other squares for their needlework. If it is thought necessary to divide the room a curtain may be used. The dotted line indicates the direction in which the rod might be made to traverse the room.

Within the last two years a paper has been published by the Committee of Council, entitled a 'Memorandum respecting the organization of Schools in parallel groups of benches and desks.' Plans are appended, from which it may be observed that no provision is made for teaching in class-squares. A group of parallel desks is allotted to each class. For this arrangement an oblong room is recommended, with just width enough for one group of desks placed lengthwise, and sufficient space in front for the teacher. The width required is estimated at 17 or 18 feet. The groups of desks are separated by curtains, except when a teacher addresses himself to two classes at once, which it will sometimes be necessary for him to do in the absence of a gallery for simultaneous instruction. When a class-room is added to the room, a gallery is recommended to be placed in it. The length of desk allowed for each child is 18 inches.

(C.)—ROUTINE OF INSTRUCTION FOR PUPIL TEACHERS.

I.-Time- Table of Lessons to be given by the Master.

Each Lesson of an hour.

* Under the term Mathematics are included Arithmetic, Book-keeping, Algebra, Mechanics, Mensuration, Land-surveying, Levelling, and Euclid. The pupil-teacher's year of apprenticeship, and the subjects which may have been selected for his future examination, must decide as to which branch of study should predominate. The "Broad Sheet for Pupil Teachers," put forth by the Committee of Council on Education, defines accurately the extent to which each of the above subjects is expected to be carried in each successive year of the apprenticeship.