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John Comenius
John believed learning visually would help children learn and remember better. He was one of the first authors to introduce pictorial textbooks. Mainly for the poor children and women. -
Erik Erikson
Erik believed children's personalities and social skills were based upon society . Society meaning expectations , values , families school and child care programs . -
Maria Montessori
Maria was first women to open up a child care center . She created a classroom which would give children a desire to learn. -
Urie Bronfenbrenner
Urie labeled different aspects that influenced children's development .Including Microsystem, Mesosystem , Exosystem , and Macrosystem . -
National Association for the Education of Young Children
NAEYC is an organization which helps children birth until the age of 8 for high quality learning. It is also the top program across the country early childhood providers use .This program has 7 core values and 5 core beliefs they hold up to . -
Howard Gardner
Howard helped educators believe any child can be smart in 9 different ways . Which include verbal linguistic, musical/rhythmic, mathematical/logical ,visual , bodily kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalist, and existentialist. -
John Dewey
John's concept of education was hands on appoarch . Real-life tasks for example math could be taught in cooking or figuring out the distance for one place to another. -
Head Start
Head Start is a program that is currently still very active it helps children from low income families through education,health, social and many great services .