A focused look at how Kansas high schools can reorganize normal teacher training for real-world impact.
In this nonfiction study, Garnet Isal Hill examines ways to improve high school normal training in Kansas. The work discusses practical options for structuring practice teaching, rural and grade-school experiences, and a new approach to preparing teachers that fits current needs. It draws on historical context, survey data, and policy considerations to explore how training programs could better prepare future educators.
- Understand proposed models for reorganizing normal training in high schools
- See how practice teaching and rural experiences could be integrated into the curriculum
- Learn about the author’s analysis of examinations, certificates, and text choices
- Explore early 20th‑century discussions that influenced teacher preparation
Ideal for readers of education history and policy, this edition grounds its discussion in the classroom realities of Kansas and the goals of preparing capable, adaptable teachers.