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Colonial America: Middle Colonies
Groups of different nationalities and religions made thrier own schools because their backgrounds and teaching stratagies were to different to combine into a public school. This is important because it shows how America segregated the education system not only by the skin color of the person but everything they believed in too. -
Colonial America
Teachers began some sort of training but nothing special. Teaching was not looked at as a serious job but as a job to pass the time. It usually was connected to a church. This is important because it shows that teaching, though very important, was not a big deal back then. It was not a priority like it is now. -
Colonial America
Housewives began to teach their own children in their own homes. This is importand because it shows how eduacation was only taught by the parents standards, -
Colonial America: Mass.
The wooden paddle Hornbook came to the states. It was a wood plank in a shape of a paddle that they would tack parchment paper to for lessons such as the a,b,c's and prayers. This was important because it showed the influences that education was having on "new and upcoming" ways to learn. -
Colonial America: Mass.
The Boston Latin Grammar School was founded which was a secondary school/college prep for boys that taught them Latin, writing, and other useful subjects. This was important because it began the outbranch of the schools. -
Colonial America: Mass.
The Law of 1642 made parents or "masters" responsible for making sure their children become educated. This was important because it showed that education was being taken more seriously now. -
Colonial America: Mass.
The Law of 1647 or "Old Deluder Satan Act" motivated towns with fifty or more people to have grammer schools and teach thier children thier religious beliefs. This is important because it started a curriculum of what was expected to be taught, -
Colonial America 1600-1700
New England Primer : alphabet, vowels, capital letters, lists of words 2-6 syllables long, verses, woodcut
pictures for each letter; religious overtones -
Colonial America late 1600/early 1700
William and Mary, Yale, Princeton, King's College, Brown, Dartmouth colleges cames about and also an emphasis on theology and the classics. This was important because it brought more opurtunities to the colonies for higher education. -
Colonial America
White indentured servants that were brought to America agreed become teachers to pay off thier debt and an apprenticeships came about which allowed a person to work under a schoolmaster for 10 years and then they c ould become teachers themselves. This was important because it made more teachers to teach students. -
Ohio: Rev. Samual Thomas
"Rev Samuel Thomas establishes a school enrolling 60 Black students" This was important because it gave the African American's a chance to become educated as well. -
Colonial America
William and Mary college was established by the Indian Student House. This was important because it gave the Indians equal oppurtunity in education as everyone else. -
Pennsylvania
BenjaminFranklin opend up American Academy which was the first academy in the US. It created skilled workers, taught kids who weren't being educated in college prep schools, private schools; admitted girls and trained teachers. -
Colonial America 1758-1843
Noah Webster introduced the dictionary. This was important because it gave an universal guidline of how words were spelt, pronounced, and the rythms it takes to say the word. -
France
Jean Jacques Rousseau influenced and began to teach hands on and teaching at the childs level. He believed everyone had a good soul. This was important because it gave a better way to teach a student how to do something and understand it at thier level. -
Early America 1785 &1787
Continental Congress Northwest Ordinance passed the buildings of schools in the Northwest Territory. Thought religion, morality, and knowledge to be a good government and bring happiness to mankind. This was important because it began the movement of school and education throughout America. -
USA
Congress Passed the Bill of Rights. Along with the First Amendment and the Tenth Amendment. This was important because it gave teachers and the education system the right to teach outside of religion and freely talk and experiment with other ideas and beliefs.
