A survey of the educational system of the Philippine islands by the Board of educational survey, created under acts 3162 and 3196 of the Philippine Legislature.

TEACHER TRAINING 405
or an attainment comparable with that of a pupil in the fifth grade of
American schools; he has had three years of experience before the current year and receives a salary of P40 a month.
TABLE 42.-DESCRIPTION OF THE MEDIAN TEACHERS FOR EACH OF THE GRADES AND
GRADE GROUPS INDICATED
Grade of
American ExperiEduca- schools ence
Grade taught Age School attainment tional having before Salary
age same current
educa- year
tional
age
Years
Seventh............. 25 High-school graduate........ 15 7th 3 P55.00
Sixth.............. 24 High-school graduate......... 15 7th 2 50.00
Fifth............... 24 High-school graduate......... 15 7th 2 52.00
Fourth.............. 25 Second year, high school..... 15 7th 4 48.00
Third............... 24 Second year, high school..... 14 6th 3 45.00
Second............. 23 Second year, high school..... 13 5th 3 45.00
First............... 23 First year, high school...... 13 5th 3 40.00
Third and fourth..... 24 Second year, high school.... 14 6th 4 45.00
First and second.... 23 First year, high school....... 13 5th 5 40.00
Teachers who are not graduates of normal schools will be spoken of
in this section as "untrained teachers." This term is not truly descriptive. Every person teaching in the public schools in the Philippines
has received some training. A very few have /had the complete
preliminary training offered in normal schools; some a part of such
preparation. The larger number have had only such training as could
be given during the period of their service, through short-term institutes,
reading circles, helpful supervision, and the like. Within the limits of its
possibilities this is real and effective training. That these means can
compensate for lack of preliminary preparation cannot be expected.
Their proper function is to stimulate continued professional growth
upon the firm foundation of adequate preparation taken by teachers
before entering the service. With full recognition of the value of this
training in service the term "untrained teachers" will be used to include
all those who have become teachers without adequate previous technical
preparation.
It is not safe to assume that a teacher without technical preparation
will necessarily be a poor teacher; nor that every person with the best
training yet devised will be an effective teacher. But experience has
so definitely shown teaching skill to be improvable by well-planned
training that average teaching ability in so large a body of teachers as
that employed in the Philippine system may be expected to correlate very
closely with amount of training. This is upon the assumption that
reasonable care is exercised in selecting for admission to normal schools