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  Normal school - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first normal schools in the United States were founded in Massachusetts beginning in the late 1830s, thanks largely to the efforts of education reformers like Horace Mann.
The first normal school to open west of the Mississippi River in the United States was the institution now called Sam Houston State University.
Among countries to still use the term Normal School is New Zealand, in which normal schools are affiliated with Teachers' colleges, particularly in the cities of Christchurch and Dunedin.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Normal_school   (360 words)

  
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Mann said at the dedication of the Lexington school "I believe Normal Schools to be a new instrumentality in the advancement of the race.
The spread of the normal school to other states can in part be credited to twenty-six graduates of the third Massachusetts normal school, opened on September 9, 1840, in Bridgewater.
The normal schools attempted to provide the prospective teacher with a laboratory for learning, using model classrooms as a place to practice their new skills.
www.nd.edu /~rbarger/www7/normal.html   (688 words)

  
 NORMAL - Definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
{Normal school}, a school whose methods of instruction are to serve as a model for imitation; an institution for the training of teachers.
A thing is normal, or in its normal state, when strictly conformed to those principles of its constitution which mark its species or to the standard of a healthy and natural condition.
Note: The term normal is also used to denote the distance along the normal line from the curve to the axis of abscissas or to the center of curvature.
www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/normal   (501 words)

  
 Teacher Education and the Normal School Movement In Indiana
Normal schools rose upon the tide of thought that believed teaching was a "science" which could be taught and learned just as any other science.
He felt he left behind a strong school, one that had the largest attendance of any "strictly normal school" in the nation and was satisfied that his work had been done.
The full course, which normally could be completed in two years, ran to eight or nine terms (nine in 1881) and sought to fully prepare the student to teach in a variety of school settings.
www.connerprairie.org /HistoryOnline/isns.html   (2936 words)

  
 State Normal School - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912
In his report of this visit to the board of directors he defined the position and purpose of a normal school as being different from the other institutions of learning in the state, in that its sole design is to prepare students for the special vocation of teaching and for no other business.
For this reason the normal school bears a near and permanent relationship to the common schools, its courses should be planned after the improvement of said schools, and the place of the normal school should be at the head of the common school system.
Taylor and approved by the regents was the "offer of mileage to Kansas students at the rate of three cents a mile in excess of 100 miles." During the next decade the school made remarkable growth, the building was enlarged, the courses were rearranged and increased, and a library of 10,000 volumes was collected.
skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1912/s/state_normal_school.html   (1236 words)

  
 Concord State Normal School
Accordingly, on the 28th day of February, 1872, the Legislature passed "An act to locate a Branch State Normal School at Concord, in the county of Mercer." This act required the buildings to be fitted up and furnished for the convenience of such school, free of charge to the State.
Reynolds appeared before the "Board of Regents of the Normal Schools," then in session at the Capitol in Charleston, and presented the deed of W. Martin and wife to the State of West Virginia.
The transfer of the school from the "Old Church," which is now used for a stable, to the new building marks the beginning of a period of progress, which before that time had not been dreamed of by the most hopeful friends of the institution.
www.wvculture.org /history/education/concord02.html   (1454 words)

  
 Archives and Special Collections - Grover Cleveland, the Normal School, and Buffalo State
The organization of the original normal school was overseen by a five-member executive committee--including two lawyers--charged with the school's direct management, discipline and setting the course of instruction.
On April 15, 1869, the cornerstone for the normal school was laid.
In 1873 the normal school's first class graduated, thoroughly informed on the three R's, about which they themselves on admission probably were not clear; each class member had received one year of professional studies as well.
www.buffalostate.edu /library/archives/grover.html   (1919 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: 'More Like A Normal High School'
Today, Chicago's alternative schools are known around the country as some of the longest-standing and most innovative options for dropouts.
Chicago's alternative schools, each of which serves about 50 to 120 students, bank on the idea that a flexible approach, smaller class sizes, child-care options and links to job training, counseling and other services help young people stay in school.
He had switched from a private school to a public high school on the city's south side after moving from his father's house to his mother's house.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A64854-2004May28?language=printer   (802 words)

  
 Normal School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Normal schools were part of a revolution in education taking place in 19th-century America, in which the need for teachers to receive training, and especially in teaching methods in addition to subject knowledge was becoming more and more evident.
Thus teacher training became a major focus of the school, although the old academy collegiate tradition was continued in a separate department until the turn of the century.
Charles McLean was the principal for the first several decades of the school and helped to establish one of the major elements of the Normal School's culture, that of the Greek Letter Societies which flourished at the school from 1869-1940.
www.acs.brockport.edu /~dvan0225/history02.htm   (193 words)

  
 The History of Cheney State Normal School
A meeting was held in the auditorium of the Normal School, and afterwards a group of Normal students, contrary to regulations, went to the I. hall for a dance.
Realizing that the Normal School had not the accommodations to offer men, that it had to offer women, president Showalter conceived the idea of a dormitory for men, to be erected as a private enterprise at a cost of about $100,000.
The school is organized on the four-quarter basis, and classes are conducted during eleven months of the year, so that the maximum of returns is obtained from the plant.
www.usgennet.org /usa/wa/state1/cheney/ch6.htm   (6165 words)

  
 Albion State Normal School Campus
Albion State Normal School was established by an Act of the Idaho Legislature in 1893 as a result of petitions from the people of the town of Albion.
From the school’s inception, it was decided by the supporters that it should be strictly in the business of training interested and able persons to be teachers in Idaho’s growing society.
Albion Normal was able to hang on putting the students to work at school jobs, such as maintenance, construction, general services and food preparation.
www.albionvalley.com /campus.htm   (1126 words)

  
 THE CENTRAL MICHIGAN NORMAL SCHOOL
A graded school course was also to be given "containing the branches of instruction required for a first grade county certificate, and such additional work in the science and art of teaching" as the State Board should determine.
The establishment of a second Normal was strongly opposed by citizens of Ypsilanti and some members of the faculty of the Normal School at that place.
After the Mt. Pleasant school was taken over by the Legislature that opposition was continued in the form of attempts to keep that school in a subordinate position by restricting its courses of study and the certificates which it could grant.
www.mifamilyhistory.org /isabella/cmns.htm   (2571 words)

  
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The Provincial Normal School was a publicly funded post-secondary institute, run by the Department of Education, for teacher training.
The term "normal school" is derived from the French Ecole Normale Supérieure, which provided instruction in the "norms" or "standard practices" of teaching.
In the 1920s the syllabus of the Provincial Normal School was respectably rigorous – as is evident from the Provinical Normal School curriculum, 1928-1929.
www.mala.bc.ca /homeroom/Content/Schools/Public/normal.htm   (729 words)

  
 Competition for normal school pitted Wausau vs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The state had created five normal schools, or teacher training schools, by 1890, but all were in the southern half of the state.
In 1891, the legislature authorized the Board of Regents of the Normal Schools to establish a sixth school in the northern half of the state.
And in 1994, on the school's 100th anniversary, the editors of the Stevens Point Journal and Wausau Herald officially, and finally, buried the hatchet.
www.jsonline.com /news/state/wis150/stories/0719sesq.stm   (429 words)

  
 Albert Aldinger and Football at the Bloomsburg State Normal School
The first coach was Warren H. Detwiler, who came to the Bloomsburg State Normal School in the spring of 1892 after having graduated from Haverford College where he earned honors in history and political science, and most importantly, was captain of the football team.
Normal won its first three games, but the rest of the season the team did not fare as well, losing three of the final four, including two more to the Wyoming Seminary.
A school record was set in a 67-0 win over a team from Shickshinny, a score that would not be surpassed until a 92-0 thrashing of Northumberland High School in 1912.
www.bloomu.edu /library/Archives/football/Aldingerfootball.html   (2564 words)

  
 Normal School History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A feature of this early school system,in Marmaduke,which has long since discontinued was a Teachers' Normal, a school for teachers conducted for six or 10 weeks during vacation.
The first Normal the years of 1907-08-09 was held in the first frame building located where the High School building now stands.
When the Normal was in session the town was filled with visiting school teachers, many of whom boarded in town during the time and there was quite a bit of social life.
www.usgennet.org /usa/ar/county/greene/normalschistory.htm   (252 words)

  
 Potsdam Normal School, Home of Pioneer Women Educators
Morey was principal of the intermediate department in the Practice School, with responsibility for instruction in arithmetic and grammar.
She received a BS in education in 1913 from the University of Missouri and was a member of Pi Lamda Theta, an honorary sorority in the School of Education.
The Crane School of Music, which was founded by Julia Crane in 1886, also gave the Normal School a number of influential women who helped to shape its history.
www.northnet.org /stlawrenceaauw/normal.htm   (1173 words)

  
 Paper: A Brief History of Bridgewater State College
In 1838 Boston merchant Edmund Dwight challenged state legislators to match $10,000 for a 3-year trial for Normal Schools, and on April 19, 1838, 3 schools in 3 areas of the state were authorized.
On May 30, 1838, a Plymouth County committee petitioned to establish a Normal School as soon as everything could be put in place, mostly through assessments and pledges from the towns.
A Normal School opened in Lexington on July 3, 1839, on which Horace Mann focused his energies.
webhost.bridgew.edu /adirks/ald/papers/bschist.htm   (1026 words)

  
 Anna Normal School; shelby county ohio historical society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Anna Normal School opened in Shelby County, Ohio in the fall of 1915, housed in one wing of the Anna School.
She graduated from Normal School in 1917 and began to teach at the age of 18.
At the beginning Mother taught grades 1-8 in one-room schools, where she had all of the janitorial duties, including building the fire to keep the classroom warm in cold weather.
www.shelbycountyhistory.org /schs/archives/education/annanormledua.htm   (452 words)

  
 1869 Report of State Normal School
Dr. Hart, the distinguished President of the New Jersey Normal School, after the first year's experience in a boarding house erected to counteract the evils referred to, says: "The gain to the pupils in mental discipline, and in success in their studies, is fully thirty-three per cent." Subsequent reports confirm the favorable opinion first formed.
Clark, with the experience of a quarter of a century in the school room, is well fitted for the place assigned her.
Whenever the number of applicants from any county shall exceed the number to which that county is entitled by law, the applicants shall pass a competitive examination before the County Superintendent and the County Board of Examination, which examination shall be conducted in the same manner as county examinations for third grade teachers' certificates.
www.sjsu.edu /sjsuhistory/lucky_report.htm   (1327 words)

  
 Elmwood Normal School
on site which is managed by Homai School for the Blind in Auckland, from which staff members meet the special educational needs of learners with vision impaired children from birth to 21 years throughout Canterbury and Westland.
The ideal that responsibility for children's learning should be a partnership between parent and school is increasingly being realised.
The school is situated in the city suburb of
www.elmwood.school.nz   (222 words)

  
 Northwestern Normal School, 1895-1935 - Alva's Castle on the Hill
A bill was introduced in 1895 for the purpose of establishing a Normal School in the growing city of Alva and the county of "M" (Woods).
However, the huge 3 story school with its towers and turrets with battlements was to be only one wing of the structure and Dr. Ament's vision was never realized even though he carried it with him all his life, even when he left Alva.
Alva was but a mere village in 1897 when the Commercial Club undertook the job of building the second State Normal School of Oklahoma with James E. Ament as the first President of the Normal School.
okielegacy.org /normalschool/ntn1897.html   (1719 words)

  
 Manitoba Provincial Normal School
The Normal School was located in the affluent Winnipeg community of Tuxedo in the southwest part of the city.
Beyond that was the large Assiniboine Park, extending across the Assiboine River to Portage Avenue, the principal east-west thoroughfare, leading to downtown to the east and to the airport to the west.
All Normal School students were assigned to a class of grades one, two, or three.
www.innvista.com /society/education/schools/normal.htm   (2815 words)

  
 Dedication and Opening of Normal School
Normal School was opened and occupied on Monday, September 11, 1899.
When the school was first opened it was not yet completed, carpentry and stonework still had to be done.
That night, the queen’s ball and reception for the governor was held in the Normal Auditorium with music by the Pullman Band and several professional vocalists.
www.niu.edu /historicalbuildings/altgeld/dedication.htm   (671 words)

  
 KUDOS AND SOUR GRAPES:Reactions To Locating The Normal School At Kearney
The legislation providing for the normal school to serve western Nebraska was enacted at the end of March 1903.
"The farce entitled 'The location of the new normal school', in which the normal school board were the chief comedians, has at least ended, at least as far as their acting is concerned.
The school will be accessible to all parts of the state and especially the western portion which the school is intended especially to accommodate.
bchs.kearney.net /BTales_198005.htm   (1747 words)

  
 History of Eastern Illinois University's Old Main - Charleston: The Normal School City
The Charleston Normal School committee met in the office of George H. Jeffries where they mapped a strategy to bring the Normal School to Charleston.
Charleston competed with numerous communities in east central Illinois for the normal school.
The Normal School "is the culminating achievement of universal education.
www.eiu.edu /~localite/coles/charleston/eiu/oldmain/charleston.htm   (409 words)

  
 A SUNY Oswego Chronology
The Regents were to govern the former Kings College (renamed Columbia College), to establish and govern other schools and colleges, and to award degrees.
Standardized, purelyh pedagogical courses of study were established for all normal schools: a two-year Kindergarten-Primary Course to prepare teachers for kindergarten and first five primary grades; and a one-year Critic Course open only to Normal School graduates to prepare teachers for Training Classes and Normal Schools.
1938 State normal schools were changed to teachers colleges, and the course of study was extended from three to four years.
www.oswego.edu /oz/chronology.html   (1040 words)

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