Student teachers, Toronto Normal School, St. James Square, bounded by Gerrard, Church, Gould and Victoria Streets, 1898. Image: Archives of Ontario
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Resource ID
7896
Access
Open
Credit Line
Archives of Ontario
Date of Creation
1898
Keywords
Women's History, Education, women, activism
Program Category
Tours
Rights
Public Domain
Caption
Student teachers, Toronto Normal School, St. James Square, bounded by Gerrard, Church, Gould and Victoria Streets, 1898. Image: Archives of Ontario
Description
Student teachers practice teaching kindergarten at the Toronto Normal School in 1898. The Toronto Normal School was the first of its kind in Ontario. Opened in 1847, the school was meant to provide future teachers with a formal education - something not required prior to the school's founding. The Toronto Normal School set a precedent for other teaching schools in Ontario in terms of teachers' education.
Aside from being commonly known as the Toronto Normal School, the school was referred to by many other names over the years including the Provincial Normal School, the Normal School for Upper Canada, and the Normal School for Ontario, but it eventually evolved into the Toronto Teachers' College in 1953.