This article is the result of a qualitative research, exploratory and descriptive held in the British Museum School, in Hitchin, in order to study the Lancasterian Method, in a playful space called monitorial room. The research was developed with the empirical observation led to the analysis of the object and its tooling playful compare them with Regimento Interno das Aulas Públicas das Primeiras Letras do Espírito Santo de 1871, and Joseph Lancaster's books that describe your method. Thus, the triangulation between relational objects of study provided an overview to understand the teaching strategies applied in London and are incorporated in the teaching strategies of Brazil in the nineteenth century.
British Museum School; monitory; history; education; legislation