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The training of teachers in the United States of America

Chapter 3: NOTE BY THE AUTHORS
By Amy Blanche Bramwell
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A pair of scholars tour United States schools and colleges to investigate teacher preparation, reporting on state normal schools, city normal and training schools, and local training classes. They contrast academic and professional emphases, describing curricula that combine classical study with laboratory science, manual training, and library resources. The account examines pedagogical instruction such as psychology, history of education, methods courses, and practice teaching in model schools, together with systems of examination and certification. Observations also consider the supply of teachers, effects of local management, and illustrative materials and experiments seen at higher institutions and educational exhibitions.

NOTE BY THE AUTHORS

In publishing the following reports, which we are enabled to do through the courtesy and generosity of the Gilchrist Trustees, it may not be altogether out of place to submit a few prefatory remarks. When the five Scholars were appointed to visit American Schools and Colleges in the summer of 1893, it was found advisable, in view of the magnitude of the task, to somewhat divide the responsibility. Three of the number undertook to visit and report upon institutions offering the means of general education, while we desired to especially investigate the provision made in the United States for the Training of Teachers.

As our interests thus lay in one direction, the Trustees further approved of our suggestion that we should travel and work together, and this plan we found most helpful and satisfactory. It will be seen that we have covered exactly the same field, but we have thought it desirable to write separate reports, without mutual consultation, rather than to embody the results of our work in a joint account.

AMY B. BRAMWELL.      
H. MILLICENT HUGHES.