isua-isnscatalog-1885-1886-016

Description:	ANNUAL REGISTER.15The State Normal School, then, undertakes to fulfill the pur¬ pose of its organization by (1) leading the student to acquire a thorough knowledge of the branches required to be taught, the professional aspects of the subjects receiving attention during this study (2) giving a comprehensive knowledge of mind (3) the study of the history and science of education, and (4) a sys¬ tem of instruction in methods, and an extended period of obser¬ vation and actual teaching in the training schools connected with the institution.COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.There are three classes of students for whom instruction should be provided.The first and largest class includes those who wish to prepare for teaching in the common schools in country, town or city, and who enter the Normal School having the minimum amount of scholarship, and but little of that mental discipline which results from a full and efficient course of school instruction. These must learn both the matter they are to teach, and the method of teaching it, in the Normal School. The school must afford them both academic and professional instruction.Another class of students for whom provision is made is com¬ posed of those who have completed the course of study in our high schools and academies, and of those who may not possess the scholarship of the high school graduate, but who are teachers of age and experience and because of their greater maturity are able to keep pace with these graduates.The third class includes those who have graduated from the colleges and universities of the State, and who seek that pro¬ fessional training which shall fit them to assume the duties of superintendents and principals of high schools.The Normal School aims to give all of these instruction which shall secure the following results:First. A thorough and scientific knowledge of the common school branches.Second. A knowledge of mental science.Third. A knowledge of methods of teaching the common school branches, determined (a) by the nature of the subject
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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