monitorial

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In eighteenth-century America, one-room schoolhouses employed the monitorial method, in which older students evaluated the recitations of younger ones.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 8, 2014

To this superior invisible aid he owed his appointment, at the age of seven years, to be usher in a school, before the monitorial system of teaching was thought of.

From History of American Socialisms by Noyes, John Humphrey

Had he not once offered to quit from his monitorial work to help in the shop and had not his offer been firmly refused?…

From The Foolish Lovers by Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer)

A number of New England cities, that already had other type schools, investigated the new monitorial plan and were impressed with its many important points of superiority over methods then in use.

From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson

A great many were talking at once, and every tongue was engaged in discussing the propriety, in this instance, of any monitorial interference.

From St. Winifred's, or The World of School by Earnshaw, H. C. (Harold C.)