-
Johann Amos Comenius
He was mainly remembered for his innovations in education and around 1642 he revalutionalize that kids should have education and the importance of that -
John Locke
He was an advocate for how to motivate children, how all children were born equal, and that kids will have different needs -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
She believed in the values of childhood, weather it be social, religion, moral, or cultural -
Kindergarten
This allows kids to grow socially, physically, academically, and emotionally before they go into grades that may challenge them. -
Social Reform
Reshaping the culturally accepted laws and expectations in education, improving the school systems -
Maria Montessori
Her theory was strongly based on these 3 principles Independence, Observation, Following the Child, Correcting the Child, Prepared Environment and Absorbent Mind. -
Robert Owen
He believed that children would better succeed if they have respect and kindness in there school environment -
Johann Henrich Pestalozzi
He believed that children learn through experience. He would plan lessons for geology, natural science, and geography. He also introduced field trips. -
Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel
Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel was very similar to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, he was very adamant about values -
Rudolf Steiner
He created The Waldorf curriculum, the development of the child through hands, head, and heart. Based on the belief that young children learn primarily through observation, imitation, and experience. -
Nursery School
Nurseries are a place for care, physical needs, and intellectual learning and social aspects. The name comes from young children being nurtured -
Media and Technology
Digital and analog materials, including software programs, applications (apps), broadcast and streaming media, some children’s television programming, e-books, the Internet, and other forms of content designed to facilitate use by children and social engagement by them. -
Sputnik
The main purpose of sputnik was to encourage the importance of science in education -
A. S Neill
Neill felt that children were innately good, and that children naturally became good people when allowed to grow without adult imposition of morality. -
Head Start
It was a program started to break the cycle of poverty, to get young kids into schooling so that hopefully it would break that chain of poverty -
Standards
The degree or level of requirement, excellence, or attainment that is mandated by local or national government agencies that describe the learning outcomes for various age groups. -
DAP
Developmentally appropriate practices, making sure that the information and how they are being taught is appropriate for their age -
No Child Left Behind
This act requires schools to give every child education and it pushes for equality. a law for general education for everyone grake K-12 -
High Scope
Stresses active learning through a variety of learning centers with plenty of materials and developmentally appropriate activities.