Lives of Important Educational Figures

Life

born into slavery

rose into leader of African American intelligence

views conflicted with other black leaders

Completely self educated

advocated for equality in schools

Created Tuskegee Institute

Leader in teaching education

Swiss Psychologist

First to make systematic study of children's understanding

Had 3 children

used them for his psychological studies

Educational influence

major contributions on how children learn

teachers can learn from how children
react to their own errors

Grew up in poverty

Did not receive a good education
so wanted better for other kids

Was elected to House of Representatives at age 31

Father of the Common School

Wanted to fund schools with public dollars

Allowed schools to be specialized to
certain areas (cities/states)

Progressive movement

Born in Great Britain

Orphaned at age of 16

Children during her time were educated based on social class
so she wanted to give people a chance of at home education

Advocate for homeschooling

Used "living books" instead of textbooks

Asks students to retell the lesson instead
of answer questions in back of book

Emphasized a broad education
and respecting the child

Grew up in Philadelphia

Recognized that people with learning
disabilities should receive education too

Had biggest school of mentally deficient named
after her in 1904

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Created first private boarding school for
children with learning delays

Believed children with special needs needed
separate schools than other kids

Required special, patient teachers to help these students

Dewey received good education growing up

Mother died when he was young

Began teaching 1984

Started his own experimental elementary school in 1984

Progressive Education

Children should be able to think and not just
but told knowledge to memorize

Concerned for teachers rights

Children learn in different ways

Song of Nazi refugees from Holocaust

Worked his way up to Harvard Professor

Used his knowledge obtained from both his parents
experience with holocaust and personal experience
to perceive how students learn differently

Wrote of 30 books informing on the way
students learn

Redefined view of how students learn

Greater influence on performance testing

Help show educators there is an importance
to teach in different ways because kids learn in
different ways

Showed there are different ways for
students to learn besides just lecturing