WGU C272 Notebook Activities (2022/2023) Graded A+
Jerome Bruner ✔✔Believes children encounter a series of developmental stages as they mature
Ella Flagg Young ✔✔First female president of the National Education Association
Jean Piaget ✔✔Four stage theory of cognitive development: 1. sensorimotor, 2. preoperational,
- concrete operational, and 4. formal operational
Booker T. Washington ✔✔African american educator who founded Tuskegee institute
B.F. Skinner ✔✔behavioral theory
Robert Havighurst ✔✔Believes children must master specific developmental tasks to develop normally
Benjamin Bloom ✔✔Predict Learning Outcomes
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Frederick Douglass ✔✔Improved vocational education
Maria Montessori ✔✔Developed theory and methods for educating young children. independent work. child size furniture
Lev Vygotsky ✔✔social development theory (of child cognitive development)
John Dewey ✔✔Progressive educator. Educational philosophy of progressivism
Explain the education system in the Northern colony ✔✔*Started with Dame schools to teach the 3 "R's", then primary schools, then Latin grammar schools for the wealthy that did well in school, then some went on to college (first college was Harvard) *Started with Dame School, often in a woman's kitchen to teach the 3 R's *Then Latin Grammar schools (for boys) for the wealthy, classic curriculum with classic languages & literature. Mostly Latin and some Greek *The ones that did well in school went on to college. The first college that opened was Harvard in 1636 *Benjamin Franklin purposed academies in 1751 and the first one was opened later that year.English Schools that covered a broader, practiccal curriculum. 2 / 4
Explain the impact of the Old Deluder Satan Act law ✔✔*Passed in 1647 *Its name refers to the importance of being able to read and write so that children would not be deluded by Satan, but have a strong understanding of their religion.*It required towns of 50 or more families to employ a paid teacher and towns with 100 families or more had to have an established school
The Troy Academy ✔✔a school for women, established in 1821 by Emma Willard
Oberlin College ✔✔first institution to offer co-education with both men and women
The "Eight-Year Study" ✔✔conducted in the US in 1930 determined that the progressive approach produced more intellectual curiosity and higher levels of critical thinking
Horace Mann ✔✔*Secretary of Massachusetts Commission to Improve Education *Big participant in the Common School Movement *Father of American education
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How are Horace Mann and Henry Barnard similar? ✔✔Common School Movement-the movement to provide universal education and schools that would serve all children at public expense First FREE secondary school was established in 1827
Henry Barnard ✔✔believed in common school movement from Connecticut
Four specific areas of philosophy that influenced the work of teachers ✔✔Aesthetics, Ethics, Logic, Epistemology
Philosophy raises questions instead of solving them ✔✔
The Dynamic Relationship between Philosophy and Education ✔✔*Applying philosophy to the classroom *Use philosophy to develop ideas and govern decisions about teaching and learning *Clarify how curriculum, instruction, and assessment work *Build on the philosophies of others
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