Show Tran Tra inc pedagogue pedagogues gogue gues the first genuine effort tor for the professional fess ional training of teachers undertaken in the world was undoubtedly by jean baptiste de la salle at rheams in 1681 at the beginning of the nineteenth century the development of institutions to train teachers took on a new life and the prussian system of normal schools was firmly established six normal schools had been organized in that country it was about this time that the subject of preparing teachers for public schools began to receive attention in america |