# Foundations and Assessment of Education/Edition 1/Foundations Table of Contents/Chapter 3/Chapter Review

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## Learning Targets

1. The reader will be able to describe the different interpretations of the history of education.
2. The student will also be able to identify the similarities and differences between the classroom of today and the classroom of the past.
3. To learn about the roots of the U.S. education system.
4. Identify the two major institutions founded by Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Froebel that are still in use today.
5. Be able to name the major methods or practices invented by Sir Francis Bacon, René Descartes and Thomas Jefferson.
6. Be able to identify early education practices and their purposes. I.e. Hands on or object centered learning and learning through play.
7. Name the common theory held by many 17th and 18th century philosophers and apply it to teaching in today's classroom.
8. Students should be able to identify the Common School Period and its goals.
9. Students should be able to identify two of the major innovators of education in the 19th century.
10. Students should be able to understand the beginnings of teacher education, starting in the ancient times.
11. Students should understand the progression from few requirements to many requirements to teach.

## Review Questions

1. If Johnny is in a classroom full of thirty people ranging from age six to age eighteen, what time period would he have been in school?
2. According to Charles Webster why is it important to study the history of education
3. What did Edward Powers identify as the most important factor in studying the history of education?
4. What are the reasons that it's important to continue studying the current "history of education?"
5. In 1731, Benjamin Franklin established what institution that allows the public to freely borrow books and have free access to the internet and other resources
6. This institution was created and established by Frederick Froebel in 1837 in Blackenburg, Germany.
7. When a student, usually in science class, does an experiment and records the details of that experiment along with his/her predictions and findings what longstanding method should they use and who created it?
8. René Descartes developed Cartesian geometry and how we plot these on graphs...
9. A student performing well in high school should apply for one of these, if he gets one he could possibly get a free ride to college, and if he does he has Thomas Jefferson to thank for the invention.
10. You are teaching a class of very young students, you might have them do this to learn the similarities and differences between shapes. Pestalozzi would recommend it.
11. Pestalozzi believed that a good teacher could create a lesson from any experience. The children in your class are playing with a pretend kitchen set. What type of lesson could be taught in this situation?
12. Locke, Bacon, Froebel, Pestalozzi, Komensky and Rousseau all believed in this basic principle.
13. What was the 19th century called in reference to educational reform?
14. Who was considered the "Father of the Common School"?
15. Who wrote one of the first textbooks or readers ever used in public schools?
16. Education reformers such as Horace Mann wanted to make school_____________.
17. One of the three goals of reformers who supported common schools was____________.
18. In 1956, what type of education might most African Americans in the Deep South likely have received?
19. After 1975, in what kind of learning environment are handicapped children found?
20. In 1970, womenâs education most likely included what class?
21. After World War II, which belief supported the passage of the G.I. Bill?
22. What type of classes would most likely appeal to the returning WWII veterans?
23. Is learning technology skills enough for teachers to be successful in the classroom?
24. What is a basic technology that almost every school has?
25. What is an advanced technology that only few schools have?
26. Which President enacted the No Child Left Behind Act?
27. Which of the following is NOT an example of learning WITH technology?
28. Who is considered the first private teacher?
29. Where was the first graduate school for education established?
30. What is a reason behind the monitorial system being effective?
31. What describes the western style of teacher education?

## Answer Key

1.B 2.A 3.C 4.B 5.A 6.B 7.C 8.D 9.B 10.A 11.D 12.A 13.C 14.A 15.C 16.C 17.B 18.B 19.B 20.D 21.A 22.C 23.B 24.C 25.D 26.C 27.A 28.D 29.B 30.C 31.C