The Role of the Teacher and Learner
Major Contributions
Who's that Girl
View of Curriculum
Continent
100
The teacher is "The Master"-a transmitter of knowledge-and the student is an active learner who takes the initiative in learning
Who is Confucius?
100
Promoted mass literacy by advocating education for all teaching in the vernacular. First compulsory education law in Germany.
Who is Martin Luther?
100
First to advocate liberal education for all women in a school for women
Who is Christine De Pizan?
100
Integration of curriculum for practical and utilitarian purposes; the mind is an empty slate that learns through experiences.
Who is Locke?
100
Socrates
What is Europe?
200
The teacher draws the knowledge out of the student.
Who is Socrates
200
The Common School idea with graded classrooms, lesson plans, education for all financed by local taxes, first teacher training schools.
Who is Horace Mann?
200
Women are particularly suited for teaching; schools are needed for all children in the country, including immigrants and farmers
Who is Catharine Beecher?
200
The curriculum centered on the child's needs not on the subject matter; learning freely from nature.
Who is Rousseau?
200
Pestalozzi
What is Europe?
300
The teacher is the expert who teaches students how to think and act virtuously.
Who is Artistotle?
300
Taught deaf children to their fullest ability using "total communication", women are especially suited for teaching.
Who is Thomas Gallaudet?
300
Founded the first American parochial school.
Who is Elizabeth Seton?
300
Special method-teach from the concrete to the abstract using the actual objects; teaching a whole group with simultaneous instruction.
Who is Pestalozzi?
300
Booker T. Washington
What is North America?
400
The teacher is a moral mentor who lectures and disputes, or debates, with the students in order to help them discover true knowledge on their own.
Who is Thomas Aquinas?
400
Founded the NAACP; encouraged blacks to become professionals and leaders; doctors, lawyers and businessmen.
Who is W.E.B. Dubois?
400
Problem solving, activity based education in a community of learners; the Five-Step Process of Problem Solving.
Who is Dewey?
400
A child centered curriculum taught by play,self-activity, physical activity, music and the "gifts and occupations".
Who is Froebel?
400
Elizabeth Seton
What is North America?
500
Teach according to the developmental level of the child, taking learning styles into consideration, relating content to the child's daily life.
Who is Comenius?
500
Founded the first school for girls, first feminist who inspired many later women educators.
Who is Sappho?
500
Founded a college for black women with a distinctive education to prepare leaders.
Who is Bethune?
500
Common elementary school curriculum; no sectarian teaching of religion, only general teaching of Christianity.
Who is Mann?
500
Paulo Freire
What is South America?