Rich girls were taught mainly by governesses at home. Free church-run or charity schools provided education for the poor but many parents could not afford to let their children stop work to attend. This meant that few working-class children had any formal education. Children used writing slates a smooth, stony plate at school, as they were cheaper than paper. They copied lessons onto the slate using slate pencils. Students sat at wooden desks in rows facing the blackboard.
Discipline was strict in Victorian schools and talking was forbidden. Most schoolgirls wore a white cotton apron over their regular clothes. These documents provide information on definitions and derived calculations for class sizes and apparent retention and transition rates.
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Usually this would consist of the classroom teacher writing on the chalkboard and the children copying this down. Teaching lacked creativity and it was a strict, uncomfortable place for children to begin their life education.
In Victorian schools there were more female teachers than male ones with women occupying the majority of teaching roles.
These women were often very strict and scary. The reason teaching consisted of mostly ladies was due to the pay scale. The salaries were poor and men could be earning more money elsewhere so this was left to the women. The rationale behind it been mostly unmarried women was that once married the women was expected to take care of the family. The large majority of teachers did not have a college education.
The role of teaching was something they picked up while on the job and every new lesson would be a challenge for them too. The Victorian teaching system was much different to the one we have today. Discipline was huge in the Victorian times and this was no different in schools.
Boys were typically caned on their backsides whereas Girls would take the punishment on their legs or hands. The reasons ranged from truancy right through to laziness in the classroom. The punishments were usually harsh and painful for children aged jus between Children who were slower than the rest within lessons were made to wear the shameful dunce hats and sit in the corner for over an hour.
This was not only humiliating for the child but also not helping them get up to speed with the rest of the class. At the time there was no concept of children with learning difficulties and the uneducated classroom teachers would assume it was purely down to the laziness or lack of effort. Amazingly children were reprimanded for using their left hand to write! This was seen as a punishable offence and they were made write with their right hand!
The intiial three were seen as the most important areas of education at the time and a vast majority of school time involved the learning of these. The lessons were very different to lessons of today and usually involved copying down what the teacher wrote on the chalkboard. Furthermore children were expected to chant things out loud until they did so without mistakes.
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