isua-isnscatalog-1885-1886-023

Description:	22INDIANA STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.During the past year forty high school graduates, representing twenty-five high schools of Indiana, have been pursuing one or the other of the courses of study provided by the Normal School for such graduates. This indicates a growing conviction that, in addition to a knowledge of the subjects of instruction, the teacher should have a thorough training in the history, science and art of his jirofession.DEPARTMENTS.Each department in the school is in charge of a specialist. These departments are as follows:Department of Educational Science, in which the instruction that is characteristic of the school is given. This includes a study of mental science and of the theory of teaching, in which an investigation is made of methods of instruction adapted to the different studies, and to the different periods of mental growth. Besides the study of the Theory of Teaching, there is an almost continuous study and practice of the art of teaching from the time the student enters until he graduates. The training, school is an essential part of a Normal School. Without it the students can make no satisfactory attainments in the art of teaching. It is in the training school that his theories are tested and his mis¬ conceptions corrected. It is here that he gains experience in teaching. The training schools which form a part of the Nor¬ mal School are a part of the public schools of the city of Terre Haute, and the instruction given in them is of the nature of that given in all the other schools of the city of like grade. The Normal students have, therefore, an opportunity to practice in an actual school, such as they will be called upon to teach after graduation. In addition to the lines of work above indicated, a subject is made of the principles of school government, the educational values of studies, the proper succession of studies, the organization of courses of study, the gradation and classifica¬ tion of a school, the principles that should govern in the con¬ struction of a programme, and the like.This line of pedagogical study extends throughout the entire course, from the first term to the last.
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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