The credit for giving birth to the teachers training system also goes to individual or private institutions. First of all Dr. More opened a Normal School at Srirampur for the training of teachers for primary schools.
In 1819 Calcutta a local school committee opened a teachers’ training centre. Sir Thomas Munroe started a central school at Madras for teachers’ training.
In the same year the Bombay Deshi Shiksha Mandal trained 28 teachers for primary schools and entrusted them with the responsibility of inspecting various primary schools. The Women’s Education Committee, Calcutta, started a training centre for training women teachers.
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Besides the private institutions, the .Government also made some efforts in this direction. In his Despatch of 1854, Wood clearly emphasised the need of teachers’ training. This need was again emphasised in 1859 when it was felt that sufficient progress was not being made in this sphere.
It was also decided to keep a sum apart from the school grant for trained teachers’ pay. Besides, Normal Schools were opened at Bombay, Calcutta, Poona, Surat, Agra, Meerut and Banaras (now Varanasi). Three more Normal Schools were opened in the Blengal province in addition to that of Calcutta.
So far as the question of the training of secondary teachers is concerned, proper arrangements were not yet made. Training colleges were opened at Madras and Lahore in 1856 and 1881 respectively.
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In these colleges both graduates and undergraduates were imparted training side by side. In their training emphasis was laid on extra-curricular subjects while stress was laid on prescribed subjects in the training at Normal Schools.