isua-isnscatalog-1886-1887-043

Description:	42 INDIANA STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.ditions, laws and products the principles of instruction derived from the study of the subjects and of mental processes and laws  the history and science of education, and a course of observa¬ tion and practice in each of the eight grades of the training schools. In short, it is the aim to add to the liberal education conferred by the college or university a special professional train¬ ing for the work of the school-room.SPECIAL COURSE FOR HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES.(One Year.)Many cities can not maintain a city training school for edu¬ cating their own teachers. Only two cities in the State support such schools. The Normal School Board has organized a course of training for the graduates of high schools, continuing through one year, which gives such preparation for teaching in the pri¬ mary and intermediate grades as can be made in so short a time.It is designed to have this course in the State Normal School supply the place of training schools for those cities that do not have training schools of their own.This will be a strictly professional course, in which a large portion of the time of the student will be spent in observation and teaching in the practice schools connected with the institu¬ tion. Those who complete this course will not be entitled to the diploma granted by the school. The purpose of the course is to relieve the school officers of cities from the necessity they feel of employing, as teachers, the graduates of their high schools who have had no training in teaching.A years training in the Normal School will add more to their efficiency as teachers than would several years practice in teach¬ ing, and the schools will be supplied with a much better class of teachers.During the past year seventy-five high school graduates, rep¬ resenting thirty-seven high schools of Indiana, have been pur¬ suing 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 profession.
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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