The Teachers School, the oldest educational institution in primary teacher education in Mongolia, was founded in 1922 as “Teacher preparation course”. Currently it has grown to the School functioning within the composition of the University with 4 professional departments such as Department of Mongolian Language and Social Sciences (DMLSS), Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (DMNS), Department of Methodology of Primary Teaching (DMPT), and Department of Music Teaching (DMT). The School offers two bachelor degree programmes in primary teacher education and music teacher education to 1417 students.
“Teacher, Primary Education” BA degree programme was accredited two times (2009, 2018) at the national level by the MNCEA.
The overall teaching staff is 38, out of whom 92% of them has more than 10 years of working experience.
The School has been working in close partnership with a number of the foreign universities, namely with Tokyo Gakugei University (2007), Nagoya University, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, School of Education (2013), the University of Lapland (Finland, 2015), Columbia College (the USA, 2011). This collaboration contributes to the development of teacher and student exchange programmes, professional development of teaching staff, joint research, research conferences, and improvement of academic programmes. The TS Office of Academic Programmes, set up in 2014, takes a responsibility for overall coordination, implementation and monitoring of programmes.
There is a number of centres such as The Child Diagnosis and Development Centre (joint venture with Nagoya University, Japan), the Methodology Centre for PD, the experimental Centre “Reflection Incubator”, and the Centre for Ecological Education “ECO Experiences” have been serving for further development of primary teacher education programme.
Over a 100 years of rich history the TS prepared 85.000 teachers, which currently make up 51% of all primary teachers in the country. About 20 faculty members of the School are authors of 8 textbooks for primary grades and 5 of them are co-developers of the national core curriculum for primary education.