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The 1st Public School in America
The school was first held in the home of the Master, Philemon Portmort -
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One Room School Houses
One room school houses were used through the 1800's as a gathering place for students in grades 1-8. Early versions were made like a log cabin. Later versions would be made of brick. Today, many Amish communities still use the one room school house as a means of teaching their children. -
The Committee of Ten
The National Education Association appoints a committee of 10 representatives to create a plan to standardize the cirrculum. -
My Pedagogic Creed by John Dewey
In this writing, John Dewey discussed his educational beliefs. -
The School and Society by John Dewey
John Dewey focused on "hands on" education and students learning by doing in this book -
Child and the Cirriculum John Dewey
John Dewey describes his child and community centered ideas about the method of cirrculum -
Edward Thorndike
Edward Thorndike was a psychologist that believed the pathway to education was through psychology. -
The Elimination of Waste in Education by John Franklin Bobbit
Franklin called for a change in the education cirriculum -
• Democracy and Domocracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey
John Dewey speaks out against the philosophies of Plato and Rousseau -
The Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education
The Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education created the seven Cardinal Principles after 3 years of meeting together. These seven principles included: Health, Command of Fundamental Processess, Worthy Home Membership, Vocation, Civic Education, Worthy Use of Leisure, and Ethical Character -
The Cirriculum by John Franklin Bobbit
John Franklin Bobbit discusses the importance of a cirriculum and ways to develop one -
How to Make a Cirriculum by John Franklin Bobbit
John Franklin Bobbit describes his theory on how to create a cirriculum -
• How We Think: A Restatement of the Relation of Reflective Thinking to the Educative Process by John Dewey
John Dewey discussed the process of thinking and how it relates to education -
Experience and Education by John Dewey
John Dewey wrote this book in response to the criticism his past work had received -
Basic Principles of Cirriculum and Instruction by Ralph W. Tyler
He submitted that four fundamental questions must be answered in developing any curriculum and plan of instruction. The four questions are:1. What educational purposes should the school seek to attain?2. What educational experiences can be provided that are likely to attain these purposes?3. How can these educational experiences be effectively organized?4. How can we determine whether these purposes are being attained? -
Benjamin Bloom wrote Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Handbook I: The Cognitive Domain
Bloom and a group of educational psychologists identified six levels within the cognitive domain, from the simple recall or recognition of facts, as the lowest level, through increasingly more complex and abstract mental levels, to the highest order which is classified as evaluation -
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Fenwick W. English
Fenwick English was the first educator to introduce the concept of curriculum mapping. In the mid-1970’s, English developed the Curriculum Audit. This process is currently used in schools around the world by English at Phi Delta Kappa (PDK). -
Howard Gardners Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner broke down the idea of intelligence into multiple parts instead of just a single theory -
Publication of A Nation at Risk
A report released by the Reagan administration that was full of strong language and disturbing findings on the state of education in the United States. -
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) publishes Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics
This was the first set of national standards. Other content areas followed this example/model. -
Educate America Act
President Bill Clinton signed the Goals 2000: Educate America Act, creating a special council to certify national and state content and performance standards, opportunity-to-learn standards, and state assessments -
Heidi Hayes Jacobs
Curriculum: Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum and Assessment K–12" -
Richard DuFour
Professional Learning Communities -
Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe
Understanding by design -
Carol Ann Tomlinson
The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners -
No Child Left Behind
The federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) is revised and signed into law by President George W. Bush. Re-christened the No Child Left Behind (NCLB).The legislation calls for extensive implementation of state educational standards addressing national criteria tied to federal funding. -
H. Lynn Erickson
Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction
