Kindergarten
This person was the founder of Kindergarten......
Freidrich Froebel
Who created Nursery School?
Rachel and Margaret McMillan
The founder of Waldorf education is
Rudolf Steiner
The spokesperson and face of Progressive Education was
John Dewey
The philosophy for kindergarten was that children learn best _____________________________.
through play
The movement associated with the founders of nursery school.
Socialist Movement
The first Waldorf school was opened to help support the employees of this (type of) business.
Waldorf Astoria Cigarette Factory
Blocks are considered a great material because they are _____________-_____________.
open-ended
In the first kindergartne classrooms, yarn balls, blocks, geometric shapes, wooden tablets, natural objects were called ____________________.
Froebel's Gifts
Earth, Sun, Air, Sleep and Joy were considered to be __________________________________ and inspired much of the nursery school movement.
Great Healers
Toys in Waldorf education usually had less details to encourage ________________________.
imagination
Compared to a traditional classroom a Progressive education classroom encourages _________________.
movement/hands-on learning/ curiosity
The first Canadian Kindergarten was established in ________________________.
Toronto, Ontario in 1883.
It was believed that to learn, children needed to feel __________ in every limb.
life
Ideally, children enrolled in Waldorf education benefit from spending this much time with the same educator.
3 years
The original Laboratory School,run by John Dewey was at the University of ______________.
Chicago.
Froebel believed that _____________ were excellent nurturers and recruited many to be the first kindergarten teachers.
woman
In 1930 ____________ and _____________ began training at a college opened by Margaret McMillan.
nurses and teachers
According to Steiner’s philosophy there are the 3 stages of development that take place before adulthood, name a minimum of 1.
1.Early childhood
2.Middle childhood
3.Adolescence
The teacher in a progressive ed classroom spends a great deal of time ________________ so they can better understand each child's interests/ideas.
observing/documenting