Thursday, Jan. 8, in Hedges Conference Room, The Commons, at Cornell.
Admission is free.
He founded the Laboratory School at the University of Chicago in the 1890s. He believed a good teacher should always relate classroom content to sociological experiences of students and to the individual interests of each student. Peters' lecture will address elements of Dewey's Pedagogical Creed and will relate his message of 100 years ago to modern school reform and teaching in the K-12 classroom. Peters was named Iowa High School Teacher of the Year in 1987, the year before he joined Cornell's department of education.