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The term normal school originated in the early 17th century from the French école normale. [4] 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, and thereby to set the norm for the profession of teaching. [5]
Normal schools in the United States in the 19th century were developed and built primarily to train elementary-level teachers for the public schools. The term “normal school” is based on the French école normale, a sixteenth-century model school with model classrooms where model teaching practices were taught to teacher candidates.
Became the Normal School when taken over by the Commonwealth of Virginia. Later the State Normal School for Women at Farmville, State Teachers College at Farmville, and Longwood College. University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia – Founded as The State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Fredericksburg.
Normal School for Colored Girls (now known as University of the District of Columbia) was established in Washington, D.C. in 1851 as an institution of learning and training for young African-American women, especially to train teachers. [2] [3] As Miner Normal School, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Burrell Normal School (1903 – 1969), was a private school for African American students established in 1903 in Florence, Alabama, U.S.. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The school was for grades 1 to 12, and served as a normal school .
The school was subsequently reestablished as pensionnat normal from 1808 to 1822, before being recreated in 1826 and taking the name of École normale in 1830. When institutes for primary teachers training called écoles normales were created in 1845, the word supérieure (meaning upper) was added to form the current name.
The Heritage Building is today part of Ottawa City Hall.It was originally built in 1874 as Ottawa Normal School and served as a teacher's college.The Gothic Revival building stands at Elgin Street and Lisgar and several extensions were added to the rear of the building.
The Toronto Normal School was a teachers college in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.Opened in 1847, the normal school was located at Church and Gould streets in central Toronto (after 1852), and was a predecessor to the current Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.