2. Whenever, after one year, the members of the Faculty are convinced that a student has the necessary knowledge, skill and governing power to teach and manage a school satisfactorily, the said candidate is recommended for graduation to the Board of Education. The County Superintendent of Schools grants to each graduate a certificate to teach in Cook County, outside of Chicago, first or second grade, upon his own examination and the recommendation of the Principal. First-grade certificates are given to those graduates who have manifested during their course marked ability in study and teaching. Elective courses are allowed to those students only who have received diplomas of graduation. Graduates of the Professional Training Class may elect for a one or two years’ course any one of the following post-graduate courses: 1. Kindergarten Training Class, physical training, elocution. 2. History, geography and literature. 3. Science, art and manual training. 4. Mathematics and manual training. 5. Modelling, painting, drawing and manual training. 6. Physical training, elocution, the Delsarte system of expression, music, anatomy, physiology and hygiene. 7. Advanced course in psychology, pedagogics and methods. In all elective courses psychology, pedagogics and methods are included. The Practice School consists of eight grades (nine rooms) and the kindergarten. There are two first primary rooms (A and B). Each room in the Practice School is under the immediate charge of a critic teacher, who teaches the pupils in her room, and supervises the practice teaching in her grade. The Practice School, with the exception of the kindergarten, is a public school of the city of Chicago. The Practice School is an essential feature in the training of teachers. The entire professional work of the school is concentrated upon the teaching and training in this department. One hour each day is devoted to teaching in the Practice School by members of the Professional Training Class. The Practice School is divided, for the purpose of practice teaching, into forty or more groups, each group consisting of from six to ten pupils. Two groups are united, forming one section; two sections are united to form a division. Pupil teachers are very carefully selected for merit, as (1) heads of groups; (2) leaders of sections; (3) teachers of divisions; (4) special assistants. Pupil teachers not thus chosen are assistants to group leaders. The purpose of these divisions into groups, etc., is to give each pupil-teacher as much practice as possible. The teacher begins with a small number of pupils, and advances, as teaching power increases, to the leadership of a section, a division, and at last to a special assistant’s position. The latter position requires the ability to teach and govern an entire grade or room.