Excerpt from Problems Involved in Standardizing State Normal Schools This study of the State normal schools of the United States was undertaken at the request of the Bureau of Education in the summer of 1914. The material upon which the study is based was furnished by the authorities of the State normal schools and of State depart ments of education in the fall of 1914, in response to a request sent from the Bureau of Education. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Normal schools are not now standardized, varying widely in organization, admission requirements, courses of study, and modes of instruction; and have never been a part of the system of higher education in this country. This monograph merely outlines the problem of standardization of State normal schools, and aims to demonstrate the necessity of a broader investigation. The bulletin is restricted to a study of State normal schools, eliminating a consideration of the work of closely related institutions, such as city training schools, county normal schools, and teachers' training courses in high schools. Contents include: (1) Introduction: Scope of the bulletin; (2) Statistical comparison of colleges and normal schools; (3) Purpose, number, and geographical distribution of services of State normal schools; (4) The administrative control of State normal schools; (5) Practice-teaching facilities; (6) Students and graduates; (7) Faculties of State normal schools; (8) Normal-school costs; (9) General courses of study for high-school graduates; (10) The organization of practice teaching; (11) The training of rural teachers; (12) Training of high-school teachers and conferring of degrees; (13) The training of teachers of special subjects; and (14) Program for development of normal-school standards. (Contains 9 tables; 3 figures; and 15 footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.].
Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Methods by Which the State Normal Schools Are Controlled In making up the composition of the normal school boards uniformity in methods is the rule, and the divergence noted in the consideration of the central system as against the separate boards method does not hold true here. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Report of the Commissioner on a State Normal School By a resolution of the Legislature of 1866, His Excel lency, the Governor, was authorized and required to appoint a Commissioner whose duty it should be to advertise for and receive proposals for the donation of grounds and buildings for the Use of a State Normal School. Also to ascertain the expense of the maintenance of normal schools in not less than three of the nearest neighboring States sustaining such schools; to inquire into the best method of organizing and conducting the same, and generally ascertain such facts relative to normal schools as may aid the Legislature in their action relative thereto, and to report the same, together with such pro posals and donations as he might receive, to the Legisla ture of 1867. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Improving Schools by Standardized Tests Among the more recent ideas there are some that seem pregnant with tremendous possibilities for the improve ment of educational procedure. The most far-reaching in its beneficial possibilities seems to me to be the idea Of measuring the results of teaching and the intelligence of school children by means Of standardized tests. Of large importance also are: The Socialized Recitation, Supervised Study, Teaching Children how to Study, The project-problem Method in Teaching, and the change Of emphasis from oral to silent reading. All these things are rich with promise of greater efficiency in education. But although all the above-mentioned ideas have proved successful, when carried out by trained men and women full Of enthusiasm and thoroughly under standing the psychological principles upon which the ideas were based, nevertheless, when the carrying-out of these same ideas has been attempted by persons lacking in sympathy and full understanding of the principles, aims, and methods involved, they have Often been far from successful. Superintendents and teachers who condemn these ideas, after proving to their own satisfaction that they are worth less, remind me Of the first farmer in the town Of my boy hood to purchase a mowing machine. For a great many years this man had mowed his many rough and rather rocky acres by hand with the help Of a large crew Of hired men. But one spring the mowing-machine agent appeared in our town and as a result, by the time hay was ready to be cut, the farmer found himself possessed Of a brand-new mowing machine, resplendent in green, yellow, and red. The next morning he started out to mow the back field. Truly his trials that day were many. And when the machine, unable to stand any more Of his inexpert han dling, broke down late in the afternoon, he had succeeded in getting over only about as much ground as one good man with scythe and snath could have mowed in the same length of time. And what an untidy-looking job it was! The next day the farmer started his Old crew to mowing by hand. N 0 more Of that mowing machine for him. He could do more and better work in a day alone than could a man with a pair Of horses and a mowing machine. The mowing machine was a failure. He knew because he had tried it. But did this farmer's experience with his new mowing machine prove the failure Of the machine or the failure Of the man? The mowing machine, we know, will do good and rapid work in astonishingly rough and rocky ground when guided by a practiced hand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Report of the Special Committee of the Assembly on the State Normal Schools: Transmitted to the Assembly, May 19, 1879 To the Assembly: The undersigned, the special committee appointed pursuant to a resolution passed January 28, 1878, to consider and report whether the State normal schools are fulfilling their original purpose, and what, if any, further legislation is necessary to increase their usefulness, and concerning the equities which the localities where the normal schools are situated claim to have, in regard to academic departments connected with such schools, submit the following report: The purpose for which the normal schools were established, is shown in their name; in the acts under which they were established, and by that part of the history of education in this State, which has a bearing upon the subject. Whatever may have been the original significance of the name normal school, it had come to have a well-defined meaning long before it was first used in our State legislature. A normal school was then and is now understood to mean one designed to prepare teachers for the profession of teaching. Such schools are based upon the fact that special preparatory training for teachers is essential in order to secure the best results from common schools. The schools under consideration are not only normal schools, but State normal schools, thereby indicating that they constitute a part of our State system of public instruction; that they a;re supported by the State in order to promote the efficiency of the State schools; and that they are intended to furnish better teachers, more enlightened methods of instruction, and results more in keeping with the progress made in other forms of social and industrial life. The first of our State normal schools was established under an act, passed May 7, 1844, entitled, "An act for the establishment of a normal school." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
