At the beginning of the reform and opening up, it was the choice of many excellent students to graduate from junior high school and go to the normal school. Only those with excellent grades can be admitted to the normal school. Students in normal schools study very solidly. "You can say' play and sing', anything will do." They shine brightly in the field of basic education.
1980 the Ministry of education issued the opinions on running secondary normal education well. 1988 The number of secondary normal schools in China reached 1065, and 1995 had 897 schools with more than 800,000 students.
Over the past 20 years of reform and opening up, normal colleges have trained millions of qualified graduates. In 2008, the number of secondary normal schools decreased to 192, and the number of normal colleges increased to 139. Secondary normal schools gradually withdrew from the stage of educational history in the transformation and reorganization of "merger and upgrading"
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The present situation of secondary normal schools;
Most secondary normal schools are merged into higher normal schools (normal universities, normal colleges) and other primary education majors or primary education majors and preschool education majors (also known as preschool education majors).
The general courses in secondary normal schools consist of compulsory courses, elective courses, educational practice and extracurricular activities.
Compulsory courses mainly include: pedagogy courses, psychology courses, teachers' oral English, calligraphy, primary school Chinese textbooks, primary school mathematics textbooks, primary school science textbooks, Chinese, mathematics, English, physics, chemistry, biology, ideology and politics, history and geography.
Sports, music, fine arts, technology (information technology computer application foundation, general technology, labor technology), audio-visual education foundation, etc. National normal schools also have national languages.
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 internship.
Extracurricular activities mainly carry out education in science and technology, art and sports through lectures, interest groups and social surveys.
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