Model School

Displaying 1 - 20 of 20 in reverse chronological order
# Title Date Summary
1 Gestation and birth
A Century of Leadership and Service 1:0, p.7
General educational background in Iowa prior to the founding of the Normal School; description of General Assembly actions which resulted in the founding of the school; initial actions of Board of Directors; photo.
2 Student life
A Century of Leadership and Service 1:0, p.52
Account of student life, organizations, recreation, discipline, and curriculum in the first ten years of the Normal School; photo.
3 Administering the Normal School
A Century of Leadership and Service 1:0, p.71
Duties of the Principal and the Board with regard to appointments and curriculum; continuing difficulties with the Model School; salary controversies; photo.
4 Meeting educational needs, 1890-1902
A Century of Leadership and Service 1:0, p.141
Organization of academic departments, military studies, the Training School; expansion of the curriculum; photo.
5 The quest for adequate financial support
A Century of Leadership and Service 1:0, p.37
Early changes in faculty; General Assembly actions affecting the Normal School; the building of the second hall: South Hall, later Old Gilchrist Hall; photo.
6 The Model School, 1883-1886
First 75 Years 0:0, p.106
Difficulties in establishing and running the Model School.
7 Housing of the Model School and its successors
First 75 Years 0:0, p.114
Brief description of buildings in which the school was housed.
8 "Earmarks: of first training school discovered by reporter; little white school house once surrounded by prairie grass
College Eye 27:44, p.5
Outline of original training school building at corner of 27th and College Streets can still be seen.
9 No caps, no gowns, but smiles belied professor's frowns
Alumnus 18:4, p.8
George H. Olmsted recalls early days of school.
10 Training school
Fifty Years at the Teachers College 0:0, p.197
Brief history of the model, or training school.
11 The grammar and primary school
Normal Eyte 7:10, p.114
No class on afternoon before and Friday after Thanksgiving.
12 The attack made by some of the superintendents
Normal Eyte 1:14, p.105
Superintendents do not like changes in admission standards, student classification, and class organization; attempts to meet the objections.
13 At the meeting of the Board of Directors
Normal Eyte 1:12, p.94
Boarding Department will be discontinued and Central Hall fitted for classrooms; prep course to begin for those not ready for Normal classes; model school to start in North Hall; third level bridge may be built between Central and Old Gilchrist Halls.
14 The second years
Students' Offering 8:36, p.9
Spend part of each day in Model School.
15 They have some smart kids
Students' Offering 8:36, p.9
16 Iowa State Normal School
Students' Offering 8:33, p.10
Description of facilities and curriculum.
17 The eighth year's work
Students' Offering 8:32, p.7
New building ready for use at beginning of fall term; detailed description of facilities; Maude Gilchrist (sciences) and Ella Miller (model school) added to faculty.
18 Iowa State Normal School
Students' Offering 8:32, p.10
Promotion of the Normal School with a description of the facilities.
19 May Merrin
Students' Offering 2:7, p.7
Will teach Model School.
20 Maude Gilchrist
Students' Offering 1:4, p.7
Will teach in Model School at the Normal.