Chapter 3: The Real-Tiger School by Heather Branham

Characters from Previous Chapters

Dr. Peddiwell

Raymond Wayne

Chiefs of Tribe (establish the fish-eats credit system)

Professors

Professors of icththyology (idea that graduates entered college ignorant of fish-grabbing

Professors of equinology (more time for horse-clubbing)

Professors of defense engineering (demand more fish-eats for tiger-scaring but denied)

Professors of pedagogy ( more specialization and scientific research to make their work respectable)

Progressive Education Characters

Parents of the New-Fist type (rebel against the education for teachers created by the professors of pedagogy)

Teacher of the truant boy (decides to take class to the creek to fish grab and start a private school)

Fisherman (shows progressive teacher how to have students really grab fish by hitting the fish in the head to make them dazed and sluggish

Principal of the Real-Tiger School (wanted to compete with Creative fish-grabbing school so she let the alumnus catch the last two old tigers and cage them for the students)

Fish-eats credits

Raymond wants to know more about progressive education so Dr. Peddiwell tells him about The Real-Tiger School vs. The School of Creative Fish-Grabbing

Dissatisfaction with traditional school and methods of teaching

Establish fish-eats credit in pedagogy and in one or more of the standard cultural subjects

Elementary and Secondary teachers had different fish-eat credits requirement

Professor Philosophies

Since professors of ichthyologists came up with idea first they receive extra fish-eats than the equinologists and defense engineering do.

Professors of pedagogy require more specialization for courses, scientific research to measure success, hard to learn classes, and lecture method of teaching in order to become respectable.

Progressive Education

Teacher centered vs Learner centered

Authentic learning vs. situated/artificial learning in regards to fish grabbing in the creek and fish grabbing in the hole

Using old tigers in a cage as educational resources because the children “like” it and to compete against the Creative Fish-grabbing school

Alternative Certification vs. Education Degree Teacher

Constructivist Approach to teaching which requires student centered learning rather than teacher centered learning

Implementation of programs but do not stick with the same program long enough to see effects of program implementation

We eseentially follow the "latest and greatest" but do not actually research to see if these are research-based practices

Parents still influence education when they disagree about the way their children are taught

Include real world connections for children rather than "artificial" connections

Progressive education was a formal movement after World War I, which led to more attention to the interest of the learner

Instructional content was created for the needs of the learner

Recommended courses of study developed by subject specialists

Verbal-literary in content and book-centered approach

Critics wanted individual differences in aptitude and capacities

Johann Herbart advocated making education more scientific, which affected teacher education, certification, measurement of educational projects, on intelligence test and education of gifted children.