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Socratic method- student ask question and teacher answers
Plato- idea is formed, student is always learning and once an idea is created it can't be killed -
Promotes education for career preparation
Learn from failure
Learning should adapt to each students needs
Learning should start easy and work up to harder -
"Father of Modern Education"
Head, heart, hands
Hands on learning -
Pragmatism
-learning thru hands on is better than just visual
Stages of clarity -
Learning by doing
Curriculum should be relevant to students' lives
Had a method to solving problems: created hypothesis/ problem statement, develop potential solutions, and attempt to solve them
Wasn't just one way to solve a problem -
Education is not relevant to real life
Smith-Hughes act of 1917- bringing vocational education to American classrooms -
Experience- reflection- conceptual use- test >
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Students learn best if they are taught with the intelligence they are strongest with
Teacher's provide multiple learning styles