Training School kindergarten classroom, State Normal School at Bridgewater, Massachusetts

Title:: Training School kindergarten classroom, State Normal School at Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Description:: Kindergarten classroom used in the Training School of the State Normal School at Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
Date:: [ca. 1895]
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Photographic prints
Location:: Bridgewater State University, Maxwell Library
Archives & Special Collections
Collection (local):: Bridgewater State University Historical Photographs
Subjects:: Teachers colleges
Classrooms
State Normal School (Bridgewater, Mass.)
Places:: Massachusetts > Plymouth (county) > Bridgewater
Extent:: 1 photographic print on cardstock mount : b&w ; photograph 17 x 21 cm., mount 21 x 26 cm.
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Notes:: Students of the State Normal Schools would practice teach at the Training (or Model) Schools hosted on their campuses. The Training School at Bridgewater was housed in the Normal School Building and served students from kindergarten through grade 9. As the school catalog for 1895-96 described, "The purpose of the model school is to exemplify the mode of conducting a good public school. It is udner the general supervision of the principal of the normal school, the direct supervision of the vice-principal, and includes the ten grades - the kindergarten, four primary and five grammar - of the public school in the center of the town. The school has a principal, and a regular teacher for each room, and is an essential aid to the normal school. The normal students study individual children, under careful direction, with reports upon their study; observe all the details of school work; serve as assistants; teach a class in a subject, and have practice in departmental teaching."
Identifier:: VMC003-1060