A normal school or normal college is an institution created to train teachers by educating them in the norms of pedagogy and curriculum . Many such schools have since been called teacher training colleges or teachers' colleges , but in Mexico, continue to be called normal schools, with student-teachers being known as normalistas . Many schools require a high school diploma for entry, and may be part of a comprehensive university. Normal schools in the United States , Canada , and Argentina trained teachers for primary schools , while in Europe , the equivalent colleges typically educated teachers for primary schools and later extended their curricula to also cover secondary schools.
69-643: In 1685, St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle established the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools , founded what is generally considered the first normal school, the École normale , in Reims , Champagne , France . The term "normal" in this context refers to the goal of these institutions to instill and reinforce particular norms within students. "Norms" included historical behavioral norms of
138-703: A 300-year-old network following La Salle's principles. Many schools are named after La Salle, and several streets, often near a Lasallian School, are named after him. Since the 1980s increasing numbers of cases of sexual and physical abuse of children, covered up by authorities, in institutions of the Catholic Church and others have been reported. Cases of physical and sexual abuse of children in Lasallian educational institutions, and failure to investigate, report, and subsequently protect children have been investigated, admitted , and apologised for. In 2021
207-702: A number of years. In 1921 the first non-denominational normal school was initiated and was discontinued in 1932. It was reorganized in 1934 as a department of the Memorial University College. In 1949, the institution's name was changed to Memorial University of Newfoundland . The Nova Scotia Teachers College in Truro began in 1855 as the Provincial Nova Scotia Normal School opened in Truro, Nova Scotia. The school
276-491: A one or two-year Bachelor of Education degree. Such a degree requires at least three, but usually four, years of prior undergraduate study. The term "normal school" originated in the early 17th century from the French école normale . The French concept of an "école normale" was to provide a model school with model classrooms to teach model teaching practices to its student teachers. The children being taught, their teachers, and
345-406: A reliable, reproducible and uniform work force. The process of instilling such norms within students depended upon the creation of the first uniform, formalized national educational curriculum. Thus, normal schools, as the teacher training schools, were tasked with both developing this new curriculum and developing the techniques through which teachers would instill these ideas, behaviors and values in
414-486: A school, but only if La Salle would help. What began as an effort to help Adrian Nyel establish a school for the poor in La Salle's home town gradually became his life's work. At that time, most children had little hope for social and economic advancement . Moved by the plight of the poor who seemed so "far from salvation" either in this world or the next, he determined to put his own talents and advanced education at
483-735: A teachers' training college, such as the Auckland College of Education and the Dunedin College of Education , which became colleges of education that trained secondary as well as primary and intermediate school teachers. The Calgary Normal School in Calgary was initially located at 412 – 7 Street SW in Calgary in what is called the McDougall School founded shortly after Alberta became a province in 1905. Its history
552-544: A third one in Montréal for English speakers. More institutions were added in the following century. Religious communities were responsible for around 110 private normal schools, most of which were for girls, and universities had schools of education. Between 1963 and 1974, the system was ultimately phased out to be integrated into universities' Faculty of Education departments, specifically with new Université du Québec branches. The Saskatchewan Normal School, also once known as
621-529: A variety of education and liberal arts disciplines. In Argentina, normal schools were founded starting in 1852, and still exist today and carry that name. Teachers' training is considered higher education and requires a high school diploma, but normal schools have the particularity of granting five-year teacher degrees for primary school or four year degrees for kindergarten, while at the same time hosting secondary, primary school students, and kindergarten and pre-school. Teachers-to-be do intense practical training in
690-418: Is distinguished under the name "Education University" from the "Normal University". Some of these were merged with comprehensive university, such as National Hualien University of Education , which were merged with National Dong Hwa University in 2007. Some of them were merged with professional university, such as Taipei Physical Education College was merged with Taipei Municipal University of Education to form
759-461: Is generally considered the first normal school or École normale in Sombor. The term "normal" in this case refers to "the goal of the institution to instill and reinforce particular norms within students". Also, these " norms included historical behavioral norms of the time, as well as norms that reinforced targeted societal values, ideologies and dominant narratives in the form of curriculum ". For
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#1732771781277828-636: Is part of the founding of the University of Calgary in 1966. Another Normal school was founded at Camrose (also called Rosehaven Normal school) in 1912. The Edmonton Normal School was opened in 1920 in Edmonton, Alberta. In 1945 all normal schools in Alberta were merged into the University of Alberta 's faculty of education. In 1901, the first Provincial Normal School in British Columbia
897-542: Is the main teachers' training institution, established in 1935. In Serbia, the first public normal school was founded in Sombor , Vojvodina , by Avram Mrazović in 1778 to train teachers. In 2018, the Faculty of Education in Sombor celebrated 240 years since the founding of the first school for the education of Serbian teachers called Norma . It was a teacher training college at the beginning called Norma college before it
966-618: The General Roman Calendar in 1904 for celebration on 15 May. Because of his life and inspirational writings, Pope Pius XII proclaimed him Patron Saint of All Teachers of Youth on 15 May 1950. In the 1969 revision of the Church calendar, Pope Paul VI moved his feast day to 7 April, the day of his death or "birth to heaven", his dies natalis . La Salle was a pioneer in programs for training lay teachers. Of his writings on education, Matthew Arnold remarked: "Later works on
1035-747: The Lower Mainland , that is, from the Upper Fraser Valley and communities in the interior of the province – enrolled in the Normal School in Victoria. That school was originally located in Victoria High School and later in its own building which is now part of Camosun College . In 1956 the responsibility for provincial teacher training was transferred to The University of British Columbia . Central Normal School
1104-591: The Ministry of Education runs a total of 27 Institutes of Teacher Education (ITEs), which were formerly known as Teacher Training Colleges. These ITEs function primarily to educated both undergraduate and postgraduate teacher trainees. The ministry bureau responsible for overseeing them is the Teacher Education Division . The ITEs also run in-service teacher training and continuous professional development among qualified teachers. In Naga City ,
1173-721: The University of Taipei in 2013. In New Zealand, the term normal school can refer to a primary or intermediate school used for teacher training, such as the Epsom Normal Primary School (in Auckland), Kelburn Normal School , Palmerston North Intermediate Normal School , Papakura Normal School , Central Normal School in Palmerston North, and Tahuna Normal Intermediate School and George Street Normal School in Dunedin. They were associated with
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1311-549: The "children of artisans and the poor", in a life close to that of the Catholic religious . In 1685 La Salle founded what is generally considered the first normal school , a school whose purpose is to train teachers, in Reims. Worn out by austerity and exhausting labour, La Salle died at Saint Yon , near Rouen , on Good Friday 1719. Pope Leo XIII canonized La Salle on 24 May 1900 and Pope Pius X inserted his feast in
1380-437: The "normal school" terminology is still preserved in the official English names of former normal schools established in the late 19th and early 20th century. The Chinese term normal university ( Chinese : 师范大学 ; pinyin : shīfàn dàxué , abbreviated 师大; shīdà ) refers to a modern comprehensive university established as a normal school in the early twentieth century. These "normal universities" are usually controlled by
1449-539: The Child Jesus were a new religious congregation whose work was the care of the sick and education of poor girls. The young priest helped them become established and then served as their chaplain and confessor. It was through his work with the Sisters that in 1679 he met Adrian Nyel . With De La Salle's help, a school was soon opened. Shortly thereafter, a wealthy woman in Reims told Nyel that she also would endow
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#17327717812771518-615: The Faculty of Education of the University of Ottawa in 1974. The Peterborough Normal School in Peterborough was officially opened on September 15, 1908, and operated until the late 1960s. The Stratford Normal School was founded at 270 Water Street in 1908 in Stratford, Ontario . Its emphasis was primarily for training teachers for rural conditions. Its name was changed to Stratford Teachers' College in 1953 and closed its doors in 1973 having trained close to 14,000 teachers. The site
1587-935: The Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, also known as De La Salle Brothers in Europe Australasia and Asia, and the Christian Brothers in the United States. The institute is sometimes confused with a different congregation of the same name, founded by Edmund Ignatius Rice in Ireland and known in the USA as the Irish Christian Brothers . One decision led to another, and La Salle found himself doing something he had never anticipated. La Salle wrote: I had imagined that
1656-535: The International Lasallian Mission website stated that the Lasallian order consists of about 3,000 Brothers, who help in running over 1,100 education centres in 80 countries with more than a million students, together with 90,000 teachers and lay associates. Asteroid 3002 Delasalle was discovered in 1982 and was named after De La Salle. Institut national sup%C3%A9rieur du professorat et de l%27%C3%A9ducation From Misplaced Pages,
1725-754: The New Brunswick Teachers' College. It closed in 1973, and its staff were integrated into the faculties of education at the Université de Moncton and the University of New Brunswick . The Wesleyan Normal Day School was founded in 1852 by the Wesleyans under the Newfoundland School Society. This institution continued until 1901. In 1910, a normal school was established in St. John's by the Church of England which continued for
1794-877: The Philippines , one can find the oldest normal school for girls in the Far East, the Universidad de Santa Isabel . It is a sectarian school run by the Daughters of Charity . The first secular normal school was founded in 1901 by the Thomasites , the Philippine Normal School. It was converted into a college in 1949 and was elevated to its present university status in 1992 as the Philippine Normal University . In 2009, it
1863-717: The Regina Normal School, was founded as early as 1890 in Regina moving into its first permanent structure in January, 1914. In 1964 it was transferred to University of Saskatchewan Regina Campus and in 1974 becoming part of the University of Regina . Another normal school was founded in the early 1920s in Moose Jaw and was later transferred into the Regina campus in 1959. The Saskatoon Normal School in Saskatoon
1932-1156: The Teacher Education Higher Education Institutions ( Perguruan Tinggi Pendidikan Guru , PTPG) in Batusangkar , Manado , Bandung , and Malang by Education and Culture Ministerial Decision No. 382/Kab Year 1954. Both courses were integrated to Teaching and Pedagogy Faculty at nearby university. Government Decision No. 51 Year 1958 integrate Pedagogy Faculty into Teaching and Pedagogy Faculty. In year 1962, Ministry of Basic Education established Teacher Education Institute ( Institut Pendidikan Guru , IPG) for middle school teacher. In year 1963, B-I and B-II courses and IPG were merged into Teaching and Pedagogy Faculty under Ministry of Higher Education. In year 1963–1964, Teaching and Pedagogy Faculties were established as separate higher education institutions which were known as Teaching and Education Institutes ( Institut Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan , IKIP). Presidential Decision No. 93 Year 1999 allowed IKIP to develop non-educational sciences and marked
2001-1052: The UK during the first two decades of the 21st century resulted in some establishments taking the status of "university". The University of Chester , founded by the Anglican church , traces its roots back to 1839 as the earliest training college in the United Kingdom. Others were also established by religious institutions, and most were single-sex until World War II . Since then, they have either become multi-discipline universities in their own right (e.g. Bishop Grosseteste University ; University of Chester; Edge Hill University ; St Mary's University, Twickenham ; Newman University, Birmingham ; Plymouth Marjon University ; University of Winchester ; University of Worcester ; York St John University ) or merged with another university to become its faculty of education (e.g. Moray House ). In Wales , there were at least three institutions which included
2070-547: The United States and Beijing Normal University in China—were established and operated as normal schools before they expanded their faculties and transformed themselves into research universities . Some of these universities, particularly in Asia, retain the word "Normal" in their name to highlight their historical purpose. In Canada, most normal schools were eventually assimilated into a university as its faculty of education, offering
2139-479: The building was no longer adequate and was moved to a new location on Western Rd. In 1973, London Teachers' College (as it was then called) (Elborn) merged with Althouse College to form the Faculty of Education at the University of Western Ontario . The building is now a prominent area landmark. The North Bay Normal School , a teacher training school, was established in 1909 in North Bay Ontario to meet
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2208-432: The care which I assumed of the schools and the masters would amount only to a marginal involvement committing me to no more than providing for the subsistence of the masters and assuring that they acquitted themselves of their tasks with piety and devotion ... Indeed, if I had ever thought that the care I was taking of the schoolmasters out of pure charity would ever have made it my duty to live with them, I would have dropped
2277-477: The creation of a new form of religious life , a community of consecrated laymen to conduct free schools "together and by association". The educational establishment resented his innovative methods. Nevertheless, La Salle and his small group of free teachers set up the institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools which is, according to the La Salle website, entirely dedicated to the Christian education of
2346-493: The direction of the emininent Argentine educator, writer, and politician Domingo Faustino Sarmiento . The first normal school in the Dominican Republic was founded in 1875 by Puerto Rican educator and activist Eugenio María de Hostos . Jean-Baptiste de La Salle Jean-Baptiste de La Salle ( / l ə ˈ s æ l / ) ( French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist də la sal] ; 1651 – 7 April 1719)
2415-497: The end of specialised teacher education higher institutions in general. In Japan, the normal school ( 師範学校 ) was established at Yushima Seido , Tokyo in 1872. Eventually, prefectural normal schools for primary teachers were established in all prefectures. Japanese-style normal schools were also established in the colonies of Taiwan, Korea, and Manchukuo under Japanese rule. In 1886, the Normal School Order (師範学校令)
2484-431: The establishment of schools and training of teachers. He had inherited a considerable fortune, which he could have been used to further his aims, but on the advice of a Father Barre of Paris, he sold what he had and sent the money to the poor of the province of Champagne, where a famine was causing great hardship. La Salle thereby began a new religious institute , the first one with no priests whatsoever among its members:
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2622-628: The historic Lexington Battle Green ; it evolved into Framingham State University . The first modern teacher training school in China was established by educator Sheng Xuanhuai in 1895 as the normal school of the Nanyang Public School (now Shanghai Jiao Tong University ) in Shanghai during the Qing dynasty . Many comprehensive public or state-supported universities —such as UCLA in
2691-1101: The local municipality . Teacher aspirants do most of their compulsory trainee period in normal schools and teach while being supervised by a senior teacher. In France, a two-tier system developed after the Revolution : primary school teachers were educated at départemental écoles normales , high school teachers and university professors at the écoles normales supérieures . Nowadays all teachers are educated in Institut national supérieur du professorat et de l'éducation [ fr ] (Graduate School of Teaching and Education). The écoles normales supérieures in France now mainly train researchers, who spend one year teaching in lycée . In Italy, Normal Schools now are called Liceo delle Scienze Umane. The Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa now focus mainly on training researchers. In Lithuania, Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences (LEU), former Vilnius Pedagogical University (VPU)
2760-535: The longest time, this was the only academy for teachers' training in Serbian. The first woman academician of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Isidora Sekulić , the poet Jovan Dučić , the composers Petar Konjović and Josif Marinković are just some of the alumni of Norma. In the United Kingdom, teacher training colleges were once named as such, and were independent institutions. Following
2829-469: The minds of their students. In Germany , schools of education only exist in the state of Baden-Württemberg . These schools prepare teachers for Grundschule (primary school) and secondary schools like Hauptschule and Realschule . Teachers for the Gymnasium are educated at universities. In Finland, normal schools are under national university administration, whereas most schools are administered by
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2898-411: The national government's Project 985 program, have been ranked the top two among the mainland Chinese universities that originated as normal schools. In Indonesia , there were specialised higher institutions to train teacher by educating them in the norms of pedagogy and curriculum . Indonesian government created crash program around 1950 as B-I/B-II/PGSLP course. In year 1954, the government opened
2967-660: The national or provincial government. In 1895, Qing banking tycoon and educator Sheng Xuanhuai gained approval from the Guangxu Emperor to establish the Nanyang Public School in Shanghai , China. This comprehensive institution included the first normal school on the Chinese mainland. Since 1949, many former normal schools in China have developed into comprehensive research universities. As of 2012, Beijing Normal University and East China Normal University , both members of
3036-675: The needs of teacher education in Ontario's North. The school was renamed North Bay Teachers' College in 1953, and became Nipissing University College's faculty of education in August 1973. After the university received a prestigious award in 2010, the Faculty of Education was renamed the Schulich School of Education. See Nipissing University . A school of pedagogy was formed in association with Toronto Normal School , offering advanced level courses suitable for high-school teachers. In 1897,
3105-508: The recommendation of the 1963 Robbins Report into higher education , teacher training colleges were renamed "Colleges of Education". Later in the 20th century some became a "College of Higher Education" or an "Institute of Higher Education". For information about academic divisions devoted to this field outside of the United States and Canada, see Postgraduate Training in Education (disambiguation) . A restructuring of higher education in
3174-496: The same subject have little improved the precepts, while they entirely lack the unction." His educational innovations include Sunday courses for working young men, one of the first institutions in France for the care of delinquents, technical schools, and secondary schools for modern languages, arts, and sciences. The LaSalle University says that his writings influenced educational practice, school management, and teacher preparation for more than 300 years. The Lasallian schools form
3243-589: The school was moved to Hamilton and renamed Ontario Normal College. The college closed in 1906 and the training was taken over by the faculties of education at the University of Toronto and Queen's University in Kingston. The Ottawa Normal School was built in 1874 and opened in 1875. It was located at 195 Elgin Street. It was renamed the Ottawa Teachers' College in 1953, and was subsequently merged into
3312-424: The schools annexed to the higher education section. This is the main difference with other teachers' training institutions called Instituto de Formación Docente and with universities that grant teaching degrees. Perhaps the oldest continually operating normal school in Latin America is the Escuela Normal Superior José Abelardo Núñez, founded in Santiago, Chile , in 1842 as the Escuela de Preceptores de Santiago under
3381-414: The schools primarily cultivates secondary school teachers and also trains teachers for preschool , elementary school , special education and other fields. These schools' missions have expanded since to make them de facto comprehensive research or liberal arts universities. NCUE didn't adopt the term "normal university" because its predecessor was named Taiwan Provincial College of Education, and it
3450-565: The service of God. He was named canon of Reims Cathedral when he was sixteen, and at seventeen received minor orders. He was sent to the College des Bons Enfants, where he pursued higher studies and on 10 July 1669 he took the degree of Master of Arts. When De La Salle had completed his classical, literary, and philosophical courses, he was sent to Paris to enter the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice on 18 October 1670. His mother died on 19 July 1671 and his father on 9 April 1672. This circumstance obliged him to leave Saint-Sulpice on 19 April 1672. He
3519-472: The service of the children "often left to themselves and badly brought up". La Salle knew that the teachers in Reims were struggling, lacking leadership, purpose, and training, and he found himself taking increasingly deliberate steps to help this small group of men with their work. First, in 1680, he invited them to take their meals in his home, as much to teach them table manners as to inspire and instruct them in their work. This crossing of social boundaries
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#17327717812773588-406: The teachers of the teachers were often together in the same building. Although a laboratory school , it was the official school for the children—primary or secondary.. Alternatively, the name derives from the objective of the institution to teach the practice or norms of pedagogy, i.e. , teaching. Educating teachers was of great importance in the newly industrialized European economies which needed
3657-400: The time, as well as norms that reinforced targeted societal values, ideologies and dominant narratives in the form of curriculum. The first public normal school in the United States was founded in Concord , Vermont by Samuel Read Hall in 1823 to train teachers. In 1839, the first state-supported normal school was established by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on the northeast corner of
3726-444: The whole project. ... God, who guides all things with wisdom and serenity, whose way it is not to force the inclinations of persons, willed to commit me entirely to the development of the schools. He did this in an imperceptible way and over a long period of time so that one commitment led to another in a way that I did not foresee in the beginning. La Salle's enterprise met with opposition from ecclesiastical authorities who resisted
3795-428: The word "Normal" in their name: Normal School, Brecon, subsequently relocated to become Normal College Swansea (where the academic and mathematician John Viriamu Jones was educated); and Normal College, Bangor (founded 1858), which survived until 1996, when it became part of University of Wales Bangor . The latter was one of the last institutions in the UK to retain the word "Normal" in its name. In Mainland China ,
3864-421: Was a French priest , educational reformer, and founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools . He is a saint of the Catholic Church and the patron saint for teachers of youth. He is referred to both as La Salle and as De La Salle . La Salle dedicated much of his life to the education of poor children in France ; in doing so, he started many lasting educational practices. La Salle
3933-450: Was born to a wealthy family in Reims , France, on 30 April 1651. He was the eldest child of Louis de La Salle and Nicolle Moet de Brouillet. Nicolle's family was a noble one and operated a successful winery business; she was a relative of Claude Moët , founder of Moët & Chandon . La Salle was tonsured at age eleven on 11 March 1662, in an official ceremony that marked a boy's intention, and his parents offer of their young sons, to
4002-429: Was closed in 1811, and another school was opened in its place in 1812 in Szentendre under the Declaratory Rescript of the Illyrian Nation . The new institution was named Regium Pedagogium Nationis Illiricae or Royal Pedagogium Of The Illyrian-Serbian Nation (also referred to in Latin as Preparandium or Preparadija in Serbian) which eventually was relocated back to Sombor in 1816. The Normal school – Teachers College
4071-482: Was closed in 1997 and the program essentially consolidated with other provincial universities including Acadia University , Mount St. Vincent , St. Francis Xavier , and Sainte-Anne . Thanks largely in part to the effort of education reformer Egerton Ryerson , the Ontario Normal School system came into being beginning in Toronto in 1847. The London Normal School was located at 165 Elmwood Avenue in London, Ontario and commenced classes on February 1, 1900. By 1958,
4140-411: Was founded in 1882 in Winnipeg . In 1905–06 a new building was constructed at 442 William Avenue. It was one of six Normal Schools in Manitoba, along with Brandon Normal School (1129 Queens Street, Brandon), Dauphin, Manitou, Portage la Prairie, and St. Boniface. Central Normal School moved to a facility in southwest Winnipeg in 1947. In the autumn of 1958, it was renamed the Manitoba Teachers' College. It
4209-474: Was founded in 1912 and served until 1953. It has now been integrated with the Faculty of Education at University of Saskatchewan . Mico University College is the oldest teacher training institute in the English-speaking world outside of Europe. It was founded under Lady Mico Charity in 1834 by Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton "to afford the benefit of education and training to the black and coloured population." Today, it offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in
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#17327717812774278-543: Was maintained, and was home to the Stratford Perth Museum for a number of years, being renamed the Discovery Centre. The museum moved to another location, however, and the building is now leased by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, and has been named once again the Normal School Building. The Prince Edward Island Normal School has its origin in 1856 on the grounds of Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown, P.E.I. The first three Écoles normales were established in 1857, two for French speakers in Montréal and Québec , and
4347-404: Was moved to the University of Manitoba in 1965, becoming its Faculty of Education. The New Brunswick Teachers' College was a normal school in Fredericton, New Brunswick which granted teaching certificates. It was founded on February 10, 1848, as the Provincial Normal School with Joseph Marshall de Brett Maréchal, Baron d'Avray as the first principal. In 1947, the institution changed its name to
4416-558: Was named National Center of Excellence for Teacher Education by virtue of Republic Act 9647. In Iloilo City , the West Visayas State University was originally established as a normal school in 1902; in 1994, it was recognized by the Philippines government as a Center for Teaching Excellence. In Taiwan , three universities served as national normal universities historically. Located in Taipei ( National Taiwan Normal University ), Changhua ( National Changhua University of Education ), and Kaohsiung ( National Kaohsiung Normal University ),
4485-404: Was now twenty-one, the head of the family, and as such had the responsibility of educating his four brothers and two sisters. In 1672 he received the minor order of subdeacon, was ordained a deacon in 1676, and then finally completed his theological studies and was ordained to the priesthood at the age of 26 on 9 April 1678. Two years later he received a doctorate in theology . The Sisters of
4554-499: Was one that his relatives found difficult to bear. In 1681, De La Salle decided that he would take a further step and so he brought the teachers into his own home to live with him. De La Salle's relatives were deeply disturbed; his social peers were scandalized. A year later, when his family home was lost at auction because of a family lawsuit, De La Salle rented a house into which he and the handful of teachers moved. La Salle decided to resign his canonry to devote his full attention to
4623-435: Was opened in Vancouver . Classes commenced on 9 January 1901. In January 1909, the Provincial Normal school moved into a new facility and its own building located at 11th and Cambie (now part of City Square Mall). In 1915 a second Provincial Normal School opened in Victoria. Trainee teachers from greater Vancouver and the lower Mainland attended the Normal School in Vancouver. Students from Vancouver Island and students outside
4692-480: Was promulgated and the Higher Normal School (高等師範学校) was established in Tokyo to train secondary teachers. In 1929, Tokyo Arts and Sciences University ( Tsukuba University ) and Hiroshima Arts and Sciences University ( Hiroshima University ) were established for Normal School graduates. During the postwar educational reform, normal schools were reorganized into universities' education faculties, arts and sciences faculty or universities of education. In Malaysia ,
4761-417: Was unrelated to the subsequent trend of renaming education universities. Ten Taiwanese normal schools ( Chinese : 師範學院 ; pinyin : shīfàn xuéyuàn , abbreviated 師院; shīyuàn, "normal colleges") were established under Japanese rule and at the end of World War 2 , serving for primary school teacher's education. These were promoted as teachers' colleges and later granted university status in 2000s. It
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