Teachers College

Teachers College (or Teachers' College or Teacher's College) refers to a normal school, ie. a college intended for teacher education. The term was most common in the 1920s and 1930s; most of these academic institutions have since been renamed.

Teachers College may refer to any of the following academic institutions:

• Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City
• Fuling Teachers College, Chongqing, China
• Guangxi Teachers College, Nanning, China
• Nova Scotia Teachers College
• Montessori Teachers College
• The David Yellin Teachers College
• Beit Berl Teachers College
• Levinsky Teachers College - Tel Aviv

Historical names

A weathered historic marker commemorating Florence State Teachers College, now the University of North Alabama, the oldest state-supported teachers college south of the Ohio River. Many U.S. teachers colleges, which often began as two-year normal schools, eventually developed into comprehensive state universities like the University of North Alabama.

These academic institutions have been previously known as Teachers College:

United States

• Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana; formerly Ball State Teacher's College.
• Bemidji State University, Bemidji, Minnesota; formerly Bemidji State Teachers College.
• Black Hills State University, Spearfish, South Dakota; formerly Black Hills Teachers College.
• Bowie State University, Bowie, Maryland; formerly Maryland State Teachers College at Bowie.
• Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, Cheyney, Pennsylvania; formerly Cheyney State Teachers College.
• Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois; formerly Chicago Teachers College and Illinois Teachers College: Chicago South.
• Concordia University Chicago, Illinois; formerly Concordia Teachers' College.
• Coppin State University, Baltimore, Maryland; formerly Coppin State Teachers College.
• East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina; formerly East Carolina Teachers College.
• Fairmont State University, Fairmont, West Virginia; formerly Fairmont State Teachers College.
• Frostburg State University, Frostburg, Maryland; formerly State Teachers' College at Frostburg.
• Kean University, New Jersey; formerly Newark State Teachers College.
• Mansfield University of Pennsylvania; formerly Mansfield State Teachers' College.
• Minnesota State University, Mankato, Minnesota; formerly Mankato State Teachers College.
• Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri; formerly Southwest Missouri State Teachers College.
• New Jersey City University, Jersey City, New Jersey; formerly New Jersey State Teachers College.
• Northeastern Illinois University, North Park, Illinois; formerly Chicago Teachers College (North Side).
• Peabody College, Nashville, Tennessee; formerly George Peabody College for Teachers.
• Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky; formerly Eastern Kentucky State Normal School and Teachers College.
• Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey; formerly Glassboro State Teachers College.
• Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland; formerly Maryland State Teachers College.
• Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas; formerly Sam Houston State Teachers College.
• Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania; formerly State Teachers College at Shippensburg.
• State University of New York at Cortland; formerly Cortland State Teachers College.
• State University of New York at New Paltz; formerly State Teachers College at New Paltz.
• Texas State University-San Marcos; formerly Southwest Texas State Teachers College.
• Towson University, Towson, Maryland; formerly Maryland State Teachers College at Towson.
• University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma; formerly Central State Teachers College.
• University of the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C.; formerly District of Columbia Teachers College.
• University of North Alabama, Florence, Alabama; formerly Florence State Teachers College.
• University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado
• University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa.
• Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina; formerly Western Carolina Teachers College.
• Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, Connecticut; formerly Western Connecticut State Teachers College.
• Winona State University, Winona, Minnesota; formerly Winona State Teachers' College.

World

• Adama University, Ethiopia; formerly Adama Technical Teachers College.
• Auckland College of Education, New Zealand; formerly Auckland Teacher Training College.
• Busan National University of Education, South Korea; formerly Busan Teachers' College.
• Charles Sturt University, New South Wales; formerly Wagga Teachers College.
• College of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas; formerly Bahamas Teachers' College.
• Dunedin College of Education, New Zealand; formerly Dunedin Teachers' College.
• Hebei North University, China; formerly Zhangjiakou Teachers College.
• Hong Kong Institute of Education; formerly Northcote College of Education, Grantham College of Education, Sir Robert Black College of Education, Hong Kong Technical Teachers' College and Institute of Languages in Education;
• Jimei University, China; formerly Jimei Teachers College.
• Kumamoto University, Japan; formerly Kumamoto Teachers College.
• Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Ontario; formerly
• Potchefstroom College of Education, South Africa, formerly Potchefstroom Teachers' College.
• Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Education, New Zealand; formerly Wellington Teachers' College.
• Rajabhat Universities, a teachers college system in Thailand; formerly Rajabhat Institutes.

See also

• Normal school

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