FCS School of the Day #7 - Austin Peay

[dbackjon]

Austin Peay State University Governors
Founded1927
Undergraduate Enrollment: 8,650
Graduate Enrollment: 542
Clarksville, TN
Ohio Valley Conference
Governors Stadium (10,000)
2008 Record: 2-9, 2-6

Founded as the Austin Peay State Normal School for Rural White Teachers


Notable Alumni:

Trenton Hassell
Bubba Wells
James "Fly" Williams

[OL FU]

Founded as the Austin Peay State Normal School for Rural White Teachers

Only in my beloved south

Anybody know the meaning of Normal school. Never been curious enough to look it up.

[dbackjon]

Founded as the Austin Peay State Normal School for Rural White Teachers

Only in my beloved south

Anybody know the meaning of Normal school. Never been curious enough to look it up.

Normal schools were teaching colleges.

App St, NAU, UNI, etc were all Normal schools. As was Illinois State, in NORMAL, Illinois.

[OL FU]

Only in my beloved south

Anybody know the meaning of Normal school. Never been curious enough to look it up.

Normal schools were teaching colleges.

App St, NAU, UNI, etc were all Normal schools. As was Illinois State, in NORMAL, Illinois.

That I knew. I just wondered how the term originated.

[CatMom]

is actually not for average students. A normal school, also known as a teachers’ college, is a school that trains teacher, generally for the primary, or elementary, grades. The name was developed from French (École Normale Supérieure (“Normal Superior School”)), to indicate that a normal school was intended to be a model. Most likely it developed from a lesser known definition of the word normal: conforming with, adhering to, or constituting a norm, standard, pattern, level, or type. One of the first normal schools was founded in Paris in the late 1600s.

By the early 1800s, the concept of normal schools moved to the U.S. Vermont opened a normal school in Concord in the 1820s. In 1839, Massachusetts opened the first state-funded school for training teachers in Lexington. Prior to this period, U.S. colleges existed for education in other fields such as law or medicine but not for teacher education. Before the establishment of normal schools, no formal teacher training existed. Most teachers were male because women did not have the same educational opportunities.

The Normal School in Massachusetts was considered an experimental plan. Women were allowed to enroll in these teacher training programs. James G. Carter, a state legislator, was significant in the formation of the first Board of Education in Massachusetts. The first secretary of the Board of Education was Horace Mann.

Prior to the formation of the normal school, strict memorization was the primary teaching method used in the U.S. The normal schools encouraged a process of critical thinking and guidance as preferable teaching methods. Another normal school in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, graduated a class of 26 who went on to lead normal schools in other states, including Illinois and Michigan.

As the concept of the normal school spread to other states, the idea of teacher education expanded to incorporate model classrooms and a learning laboratory environment. Typically, the normal school program was two years in length. Many normal schools, promoting the art and science of teaching, were established in the U.S. during 1870-90. To supplement the normal schools, county-level teacher institutes were also held.

By the 1920s, the term “normal school” lost ground to the preferable term “teachers’ college.” At this time, most such educational institutions were also restructured into four year programs that granted degrees in teacher education.

Texas State and SHSU were also normal schools

[dbackjon]

Normal schools were teaching colleges.

App St, NAU, UNI, etc were all Normal schools. As was Illinois State, in NORMAL, Illinois.

That I knew. I just wondered how the term originated.

A normal school was a school created to train high school graduates to be teachers. Its purpose was to establish teaching standards or norms, hence its name. Most such schools are now called teachers colleges; however, in some places, the term normal school is still used.

[danefan]

Albany was a normal school also.

Founded as the New York Normal School of Teachers in 1844

[OL FU]

That I knew. I just wondered how the term originated.

A normal school was a school created to train high school graduates to be teachers. Its purpose was to establish teaching standards or norms, hence its name. Most such schools are now called teachers colleges; however, in some places, the term normal school is still used.

Aaaaah, thanks.