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  1. normal school, teachers collegenoun

    a two-year school for training elementary teachers

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  1. normal school

    A normal school is a type of educational institution, primarily in the 19th and early 20th century, established to train individuals, particularly in North America and Europe, as teachers. Its main purpose was to establish teaching standards or "norms", hence the name 'normal school'. These institutions provided both the theoretical and practical knowledge required for teaching in primary or secondary schools. Many of these schools evolved into present-day teachers’ colleges or universities.

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  1. Normal school

    A normal school is a school created to train high school graduates to be teachers. Its purpose is to establish teaching standards or norms, hence its name. Most such schools are now called teachers' colleges; however, in some places the term normal school is still used. In 1685, John Baptist de La Salle, founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, founded what is generally considered the first normal school, the École Normale, in Reims. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, normal schools in the United States and Canada trained primary school teachers, while in Europe normal schools educated primary, secondary and tertiary-level teachers. In 1834, the first teacher training college was established in Jamaica by Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton under terms set out by Lady Mico's Charity "to afford the benefit of education and training to the black and coloured population." Mico Training College is considered the oldest teacher training institute in the Western Hemisphere and the English-speaking world. The first public normal school in the United States was founded in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1839. It operates today as Framingham State University. In the United States teacher colleges or normal schools began to call themselves universities beginning in the 1960s. For instance, Southern Illinois University was formerly known as Southern Illinois Normal College. The university, now a system with two campuses that enroll more than 34,000 students, has its own university press but still issues most of its bachelor degrees in education. Similarly, the town of Normal, Illinois, takes its name from the former name of Illinois State University.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of normal school in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of normal school in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of normal school in a Sentence

  1. Bastian Betthäuser:

    Schoolchildren’s learning progress slowed down substantially during the pandemic. So on average, children lost out on about one-third of what they would have usually learned in a normal school year, and these learning deficits arose quite early in the pandemic, children still have not recovered the learning that they lost out on at the start of the pandemic.

  2. Holly Schepisi:

    We have a lot of parents with children with a whole multitude of intellectual disabilities who once they age out of normal school programs have no idea of where to go or what to do.


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