The main task of general secondary normal education is to train primary school teachers. From 65438 to 0995, there were 829 ordinary middle schools with 800,000 students.
Ordinary secondary normal schools recruit junior high school graduates for 3 or 4 years. This course consists of compulsory courses, elective courses, educational practice and extracurricular activities. Compulsory courses mainly include ideological and political, Chinese (primary school Chinese textbooks and methods), mathematics (including primary school mathematics textbooks and methods), physics, chemistry, biology, history, geography, psychology, primary school education, teachers' oral English, audio-visual education, physical education, music, fine arts, labor technology, computer application and so on.
Elective courses offer courses that are conducive to broadening and deepening students' knowledge, developing students' extensive interests and specialties, and vocational and technical education courses that meet the needs of local economic development according to the needs of serving regional primary education; Educational practice includes visiting primary schools, educational investigation, educational probation and educational practice. Extracurricular activities mainly carry out education in science and technology, art and sports through lectures, interest groups and social surveys.
Ordinary secondary normal schools speed up the standardization of school-running conditions and strengthen standardized management, so that the campus environment has been purified, afforested and beautified, and the construction of campus culture embodies ideological, artistic, knowledgeable, practical and normal; According to the needs of primary education. Deepening the reform of education and teaching, strengthening the construction of teachers and training millions of qualified graduates have made historic contributions to popularizing primary education, especially in the vast rural areas.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-secondary normal school