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Comenius wrote the first child picture book. He believed that education should follow the natural order way of teaching, and that children should be able to learn at their own pace. He thought teachers needed to work with kids individually and in the natural order. He said that the growing reform would educate the poor and the rich. He wanted children of the same ages to play together in ways that parents need to let them
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Founder of a modern educational philosophy. His theory was of education on the scientific method and the study of the mind and learning. He approached a child as a doctor would examine a patient. John was one of the first European educators to discuss ideas of individual differences by observing a child rather then teaching a group. John thought that teaching kids in a more playful way was more efficient. So children were taught basic skills.
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He was a swiss writer that believed that children were not inherited evil but are naturally good. He is best known for his books in which he raised child to adulthood. He says education should reflect goodness and would allow spontaneous interests and activities for the children. His concern for children leaning led him to thinking children learn from firsthand information.
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German was the first country to have kindergarten. Kindergarten has gone through many social changes throughout the years. At first it was for poor students and then it went to be led by churches. The kindergarten we know today is the first grade that students enter when they go to school to help them become more independent and prepared for the following grades.
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Johann was a swiss educator that had many ideas on ways to teach for Early Childhood education. It included the basics of how to teach them the basic skills and the ways and ideas of caring also as you still educate the child. Rousseau thought that teaching children in groups was better than having one person with one individual tutor was better while Pestalozzi thought he could give good practices and ideas for mothers to use at home with there children
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He is known as the father of kindergarten. He is contributed to early childhood education and he believed that children should start having early education and play with toys and have trained teachers. Friedrich focused on self activity self esteem and self confidence in each child. He developed educational toys and he believed that both men and woman should be bale to teach the young children.
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Robert was a industrialist and follower of pestalozzi, Owen extended his concerns for the families of workers, and advocating for better labor practices and schooling for the children. He focuses on integrating the curriculum and group teaching, and focusing on learning through the senses. Robert beloved in all goodness of people and worked to create ideal communities, things like New lanark and New harmony, Based on his ideas and thoughts of social reform and experimentation.
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This expect that schools for younger children held lead towards a social change and improvement. A bunch of other programs tried to improve children's healthy and physical aspect by trending to be the first to the physical and social aspects of the kids life's.
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Rudolph Steiner gave lectures for the German factories of waldorf-astoria that then led to the establishment of schools that are known as the Waldorf education. Steiner believed that different areas of development and learning were connected into a kind of unity.
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Maria was the first woman to get gifted a medical degree in Italy. She first was studying children diseases and through the work with children with intellectual disabilities she found that education was more what she liked.
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A Soviet satellite and the world's first successful exploration of space, caused an upheaval in educational circles.
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This is first education program for children ever created. This began as a social action in the country in the war on poverty. For over 50 years head start has had over 37 million children and families with them.
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Alexander was the most famous proponent of the free/natural school movement. Neill thought and believed most education was defective because it arose from the original sin. He assumed children were inherited evil and this caused educators to force children into doing what was considered there nature.
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There is starting to become more concerns to childhood in ways that children are getting pushed toward adulthood so quickly and get pulled away from childhood to fast. They wanted kids to be able to be taught with technology but not in a way technology would take over everything.
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Made to address the effects of poverty on children's development and to focus attention on cognitive aspects of learning.
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In United States the leave no child behind law was passed. This required all public schools that receive federal funds to administer a statewide standardized test to every student also meaning a annual standardized report card detailing there progress. Calling for teachers with qualifications for students.
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Common Core state Standards for grades K-12 in english language arts and mathematics
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DAP gives the context of what environment, tasks and abilities are matched to the things they need to learn. And what they need to know about how children learn. There are 6 different practices. these strategies are what is applied to each decision that is made for the program.