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(e.) Opportunities for observation of the child and of the methods
of teaching and school-management.
(f.) Sufficient, regular, and co-ordinated practice in teaching.
(2.) The opportunities for observation of the child and of the methods
of teaching referred to in paragraph (e) shall be provided at the normal
school, or in any class or classes of a school or schools within convenient
distance of the training college, if the teacher or teachers of such class
or classes are approved for this purpose in terms of clause 4 hereof.

23. In the arrangement of the curriculum special regard shall be
    paid to the opportunities of instruction presented by the lectures given
    at the University college, and, where possible, the general education of
    the student shall in the main be so continued; but no student shall be
    permitted to take University classes that are, in the judgment of the
    Principal, inconsistent with the requirements of his professional course,
    nor shall a student be permitted to take classes forming a recognized
    step towards a University degree unless his capacities and attainments
    are of a character to fit him therefor without detriment to the interests
    of his training as a teacher.

24. With the limitations and exceptions contained in clauses 23 and 25
    hereof, no course of training for any student shall be deemed complete that
    does not include attendance at at least one course of lectures in a subject
    other than education at the University college, together with the following:—
    (a.) The subjects named in paragraph (a) of clause 22 hereof.
    (b.) A course of nature-study, and at least one other of the courses
    named in paragraph (b) of clause 22 hereof; such courses in
    elementary science occupying two hours a week, half of which
    must be devoted to individual practical work: Provided that
    any student who completes, to the satisfaction of the Principal,
    a course in science in a University college may be excused from
    all elementary science except nature-study.
    (c.) At least two of the courses named in paragraph (c) of clause 22,
    the total time devoted to elementary science and handwork
    together being not less than four hours a week.
    (d.) All the courses named in paragraph (d) of the clause, two hours
    a week being given to physical instruction.
    (e.) Observation of the child and of methods of teaching and
    practice in teaching as prescribed in paragraphs (e) and (f)
    of clause 22, the time devoted to observations and practice
    being, in general, not less than four hundred hours in the two
    years of the course. It is important that the observation
    should be such as to form a basis for the work in elementary
    psychology and the principles of education, and that the
    practice should be regular and co-ordinated.

25. (1.) Students who are University graduates, or who have satisf-
    actorily completed an approved course of not less than two years at
    an agricultural college or at a school of home science recognized by
    the University, or who have already satisfied the requirements of
    the examination for Class C, may be excused from attendance at
    University lectures; such students, together with those who have already
    passed in the subject for Class D or for Class C, may also be excused
    from needlework. Exemption from attendance at science may also
    be granted in the case of graduates who have taken a science sub-
    ject in their degree course, and of students who have completed an
    approved course of two years at an agricultural college.
    (2.) A student who is taking a science course at the University college
    may be exempted from attendance at a science class at the training
    college during the year in which he is so attending.
    (3.) Students having no ear for music may be excused from attend-
    ance at singing and musical theory if an approved equivalent therefor
    is taken as an extra subject or subjects, selected from amongst those
    named in paragraphs (b) and (c) of clause 22 hereof, and occupying not
    less than two hours a week throughout the period of training, the total
    requirement under these paragraphs being thus raised to six hours a
    week in all.

26. The observation of methods of teaching for which provision is
    made shall include particularly observation of the methods of teaching
    English, arithmetic, drawing, singing, nature-knowledge, geography,
    civics, as prescribed for public schools. It shall also include either
    (a) methods of teaching as specially adapted to the requirements of
    infant classes; or (b) the methods of teaching the following subjects
    in secondary classes—English, elementary mathematics, and the ele-
    mentary stages of a foreign language; or (c) the methods adopted in