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John Amos Comenius
Wrote Orbis Picture, considered the first picture book for children. Sensory Education- learning experiences involving the 5 senses: seeing, touching, hearing, tasting, and smelling. -
John Locke
Locke was a doctor and philosopher. He believd that children were a blank slate (tabula rasa). The quality of early experiences including education, shapes the direction of the child's life. -
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Rousseau asserts that education begins at birth. Believed that children learned differently than adults. A proponent of hands on materials. -
Friedrich Froebel
Started the first Kindergarten. Also trained Kindergarten teachers. Two of us students were American women Susan Blow and Elizabeth Peabody started American Kindergartens,. -
Day Care Movement
The advent of WWII necessitated the Day Care Movement. Women were needed in the workforce, and they needed a place for their children to be cared for. -
John Dewey
Father of Progressive Education. Developed a child centered approach with an emphasis on play. -
First Public School Kindergarten
Susan Blow opened the first public school Kindergarten in St. Louis. She used Froebel's methods in her classroom. -
Montessori Method of Education
Montessori was the first woman doctor in Italy. She worked with children with disabilities and broke down lessons and tasks into small parts for children to be successful. -
Jean Piaget
Believed that children construct new knowledge through their environment, now known as constructivism. Believed that children are born with only a few schematam but they create new ones as they interact. -
National Association of Nursery Education
The National Association of Nursery Education was founded. It later became the National Association for the Education of Young Children. -
Works Progress Administration Preschool
The first federal child care was established in 1933, mostly to provide government-paid jobs for thousands of teachers, nurses, cooks, janitors, and carpenters who became unemployed due to the Depression. -
HeadStart
The War on Poverty created HeadStart to help low income families educate their children. -
EvenStart
Even Start works with low income families providing them with the four core components of family literacy: early childhood education; adult literacy, parenting education; and interactive literacy activities between parents and children. -
No Child Left Behind
Legislators believe that an early introduction to academics will reduce the gap in achievement between children from economically disadvantaged and more advantaged homes. Preschool teachers are accordingly being pressured to begin teaching children the basic academic skills that are assessed under NCLB.
