ABOUT US

• About the College of Teacher Education
• CTE Administrators
• CTE Brief History
• CTE Goals
• CTE Program Accreditation Level

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE

The College of Teacher Education (CTE) started as Ilocos Norte Normal School (INNS) in June 1917 offering a four-year curriculum on the secondary level until 1936. Upon the request of the Provincial Board of Ilocos Norte, it was reopened with the offering of the elementary education program.

Republic Act No. 3115 converted the INNS into the Northern Luzon Teachers College (NLTC) in June 1963, when the Master of Arts in Education started to be offered. In 1971, the college offered a second bachelor’s degree, Bachelor of Science in Education.

The Regional Science Teaching Center (RSTC) was established in 1973 just as the Regional Staff Development Center (RSDC) was put up in 1975 with the assistance from the Educational Development Projects Implementing Task Force (EDITAF) of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports (MECS) and the National Science Development Board (NSDB). The center was entrusted with the task of providing in-service training to teachers of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, English, and social studies, besides playing a leadership role in various programs sponsored by CHED, DepEd and DOST.

On June 14, 1976, NLTC was converted into the Northern Luzon State College (NLSC). It finally became the College of Education of the Mariano Marcos State University on January 6, 1978 by virtue of Presidential Decree 1279. In 2004, it was renamed College of Teacher Education. Since 1996, CTE has been one of the CHEd Centers of Excellence in Teacher Education in Teacher Education.