Lives of Important Educational Figures

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Howard Gardner

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

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

John Dewey

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

Dewey received good education growing up

Mother died when he was young

Began teaching 1984

Started his own experimental elementary school in 1984

Margaret Bancroft

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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

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

Charlotte Mason

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

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

Horace Mann

Father of the Common School

Wanted to fund schools with public dollars

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

Progressive movement

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

Jean Piget

Educational influence

major contributions on how children learn

teachers can learn from how children react to their own errors

Had 3 children

used them for his psychological studies

Swiss Psychologist

First to make systematic study of children's understanding

Booker T Washington

Leader in teaching education

advocated for equality in schools

Created Tuskegee Institute

Life

born into slavery

Completely self educated

rose into leader of African American intelligence

views conflicted with other black leaders