normal school

noun, hist. (in Canada, the U.S, etc.), a school or college for training teachers (COD)

“Well she was five years in the convent and one year in normal school down in Ottawa.”

“Well teachers’ college now is what they used to call normal school.”

“You got a certificate as long as you agreed, when they gave it to you, that you’d go to what was called normal school in Toronto for two summers.”

“The next year you had to go back for a full year of normal school.”

“I went to normal school right out of grade twelve.”

“So when you decided to go teaching, you go to normal school?”
“No, they had what they called a completer year. And they were so desperate for teachers at that time.”