Catalogue of the State Female Normal School at Farmville, Virginia (Classic Reprint): Tenth Session, 1893-'94 - Couverture souple

Virginia, State Female Normal School Of Farmville

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1332808832 ISBN 13 : 9781332808830

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Historic catalog of a VirginiaNormal School: a detailed glimpse into 1890s teacher education
This nonfiction Volume documents admissions, admission tests, and the roadmap for training Virginia’s future public school teachers. It presents the structure, courses, and progression from junior to senior professional work, offering a clear window into how teacher preparation was organized over a full academic year.

The book outlines admission rules, age and health requirements, and the pledge for state students to teach in Virginia public schools after graduation. It details the balance between academic work and practical training, including observation and practice in a model school, and discusses licensing expectations for teachers.

What you’ll encounter includes a complete course of study by year and class, course-by-course descriptions, and the methods used to teach subjects from grammar and arithmetic to geography, history, and foreign languages. It also covers the department of industrial arts, physical culture, music, drawing, shorthand, typewriting, and dressmaking, all woven into a comprehensive teacher-preparation program of the era.

- A full breakdown of Junior, Middle, and Senior years, including professional coursework in pedagogy, school management, and education law
- Specimens of entrance exam questions and the standards for entrance, language, mathematics, and geography
- Practical details about practice teaching, observation requirements, and how graduates entered Virginia’s public schools

Ideal for readers of education history, women’s history, and classroom practice in the late 19th century, this volume serves as a documentary lens on training the next generation of teachers in Virginia.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

State Female Normal School. State Female Normal School IT was not until about thirty years ago that the public mind in Virginia came to connect the stableness of free institutions with the intelligence of the people, and to see that general education is the basis of general thrift. The first Legislature to assemble after the adoption of the post-bellum Constitution established (J uly 11, 1870,) a system of public free schools. For a dozen years or more the conduct of these schools was entrusted to such teaching force as was found ready at hand. In this experimental period nothing was more fully demonstrated than that if the returns were to be in any wise commensurate with the cost and the high mission of the system, some provision must be made for a reliable source of supply for teachers fitted by education and training for their work. To meet this demand the Legislature, in March, 1884, passed an act establishing the State Female Normal School. In October of the same year the work of the school was begun, buildings long in use for school purposes having been procured in the town of Farmville. One hundred and ten students were enrolled the first session. From the outset the school has steadily grown, making necessary, from time to time, the enlargement of its accommodations. The school is supported by funds from the following sources: (1) The State A ppropriation, (2) the Peahody Fund (used in extending and strengthening the normal work), and (3) Tuition Fees, paid by Virginia students in excess of the number to receive free tuition, and by students from other States. It has thus been enabled, from time to time, to extend the course of study, to erect laboratories for the work in physics, chemistry, and biology, with adequate apparatus, and to make the beginning of a good library. During the fourteen years of its existence the school has sent out 359 graduat
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1332808832
• ISBN 13: 9781332808830
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 43
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