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.

424 EDUCATIONAL SURVEY OF THE PHILIPPINES
Forty-two teachers were rated; twenty Filipinos and twenty-two
Americans. Since opportunity for judging all ten items was not given
in every recitation, some teachers were not rated in all respects. A
summary of the ratings appears in Table 46.
TABLE 46.-QUALITY OF TEACHING IN NORMAL SCHOOLS
No. No. No. No. No.
rated in rated rated rated rated
the qual- 1 2 3 4
ity
1. Teachers' English................................... 42 14 13 9 6
2. Attention to pupils' English......................... 42 6 12 10 14
3. Insistence upon accuracy............................. 42 12 13 9 8
4. Pupils made understand their errors................... 37 8 9 12 8
5. Skillful questioning, provoking thought................ 38 3 11 12 12
6. Teaching rather than testing......................... 42 7 12 13 10
7. Pupil participation................................... 39 9 8 12 10
8. Economy of time................................... 23 4 8 8 3
9. U se of m aterials.................................... 19 5 6 2 6
10. Knowledge in the field........................... 24 7 6 3 8
T otal......................................... 348 75 98 90 85
Obviously the ten items listed do not represent a complete analysis
of teaching skill. Also forty-two cases clearly constitute an inadequate
base for a comprehensive statement in regard to the quality of teaching
in the normal schools. But it is too significant to be disregarded, that
of the 348 ratings on distinct items of teaching skill observed in the
classes of forty-two teachers of prospective teachers, 273, or 80 per cent
of the items, were scored as less than first rate; that 170 or 42 per cent
were rated as deficient; and almost half of this number as notably
deficient.
Normal schools must be staffed by persons who can teach well.
These persons must be under constant stimulation to teach as well as
they can. The observations made do not indicate that this condition
is now fulfilled.
The difficulties faced in securing a proper personnel are complicated
by the language problem. No teacher, American or Filipino, should
be on the staff of the normal schools who has not a command of spoken
English so adequate that normal-school students during all of their
time in the schools shall hear nothing but correct English, correct in
pronunciation, in usage, and in grammatical construction. In no other
way can the English program of the schools be carried out. At present
this condition does not prevail.
THE STUDENT PERSONNEL.-The statement has been made
repeatedly to the Survey Commission by many different persons that the