32 Facts About Normal school

Normal school or normal college is an institution created to train teachers by educating them in the norms of pedagogy and curriculum.

In 1839, the first state-supported normal school was established by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on the northeast corner of the historic Lexington Battle Green; it evolved into Framingham State University.

In France, a two-tier system developed since the Revolution: primary school teachers were educated at departemental ecoles normales, high school teachers and university professors at the ecoles normales superieures.

In Serbia, the first public normal school was founded in Sombor, Vojvodina, by Avram Mrazovic in 1778 to train teachers.

In January 1909, the Provincial Normal school moved into a new facility and its own building located at 11th and Cambie .

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That Normal school was originally located in Victoria High School and later in its own building which is part of Camosun College.

Central Normal School moved to a facility in southwest Winnipeg in 1947.

In 1910, a normal school was established in St John's by the Church of England which continued for a number of years.

The Normal school was closed in 1997 and the program essentially consolidated with other provincial universities including Acadia University, Mount St Vincent, St Francis Xavier, and Sainte-Anne.

The Normal school was renamed North Bay Teachers' College in 1953, and became Nipissing University College's faculty of education in August 1973.

School of pedagogy was formed in association with Toronto Normal School, offering advanced level courses suitable for high-school teachers.

Stratford Normal School was founded at 270 Water Street in 1908 in Stratford, Ontario.

The Mexican normal school system was nationalized and reorganized by the Secretaria de Educacion Publica under Jose Vasconcelos in 1921.

The Normal school was renamed Concord Academy before closing after seven years.

Sixteen years after Columbian School had been founded in Vermont, the first state-funded normal school was founded in the neighboring state of Massachusetts, thanks largely to the efforts of education reformers such as Horace Mann and James G Carter.

In 1844 that Normal school moved from its original site of Lexington to West Newton, and then in 1853 to Framingham.

In 1933, the Normal school became the Teachers College of Connecticut and in 1959 it became Central Connecticut State College, and finally in 1983 renamed Central Connecticut State University.

Millersville Normal School was founded in 1855 as the first normal school in Pennsylvania.

In 1951, the Normal school moved to the present campus in Wayne, NJ which was purchased by the State in 1948 from the family of Garret Hobart, twenty-fourth vice president of the United States and renamed Paterson State Teachers College.

From 1870 through 1876, Leavenworth Normal School operated in Leavenworth, Kansas and from 1874 through 1876 Concordia Normal School operated in Concordia, Kansas, but the "miscellaneous appropriations bill of 1876" caused Leavenworth and Concordia to close and consolidated operations at the Emporia location.

The Normal school awarded its first baccalaureate degrees in 1908 and the first master's degrees in 1928.

In 1929, the Indiana State Normal School was renamed the Indiana State Teachers College, and in 1961, was renamed Indiana State College due to an expanding mission.

The Normal school changed to Iowa State Teachers College in 1909, then State College of Iowa in 1961 before becoming the University of Northern Iowa in 1967.

The Normal school was part of Storer College, although in the 19th century it did not provide college-level instruction.

That year the Normal school opened its doors to twenty-one students in Columbia, South Carolina.

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In 1887, Morehead Normal School was founded as a private institution in Morehead, Kentucky.

Normal school founded as Watauga Academy in 1899, the institution was named Appalachian State Normal School in between 1925 and 1929.

The Eastern Normal School was established in 1906 on the former campus of Central University, an institution that had been founded in 1874 but fell into financial difficulty, and consolidated itself with Centre College in 1901.

The Normal School went through several name changes in the following decades—first to Eastern Kentucky State Normal School and Teachers College, Eastern Kentucky State Teachers College, Eastern Kentucky State College, and finally Eastern Kentucky University .

Unlike the three aforementioned schools, the Murray State Normal School was created from scratch, and had no buildings of its own when it began operation.

The Normal School went through several name changes in the following decades—first to Murray State Normal School and Teachers College, Murray State Teachers College, Murray State College, and finally Murray State University .

In 1911, the Normal school's name was changed to Colorado State Teachers College and offered bachelor's degrees after completion of a four-year course.