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From Luther to Today: Basic Concepts Essential to Good Education Practices

by G. R. Morrison
Source: Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall
Topics: Early Years (Birth-5), Education Methods Worldwide, more...

As They Relate to Children

  • Everyone needs to learn how to read and write.
  • Children learn best when they use all their senses.
  • All children are capable of being educated.
  • All children should be educated to the fullest extent of their abilities.
  • Education should begin early in life. Today especially there is an increased emphasis on beginning education at birth.
  • Children should be appropriately taught what they are ready to learn when they are ready to learn it and should be prepared for the next stage of learning.
  • Learning activities should be interesting and meaningful.
  • Social interactions with teachers and peers are a necessary part of development and learning.
  • All children have many ways of knowing, learning, and relating to the world.

As They Relate to Teachers

  • Teachers should love and respect all children, have high expectations for them, and teach them to their highest capacities.
  • Teachers should be dedicated to the teaching profession.
  • Good teaching is based on a theory, a philosophy, goals, and objectives.
  • Children’s learning is enhanced through the use of concrete materials.
  • Teaching should move from the concrete to the abstract.
  • Observation is a key way to determine children’s needs.
  • Teaching should be a planned, systematic process.
  • Teaching should be centered on children rather than adults or subjects.
  • Teaching should be based on children’s interests.
  • Teaching should collaborate with children as a means of promoting development.
  • Teachers should plan so they incorporate all types of intelligence in their planning and activities.

As They Relate to Parents

  • The family is the most important institution in children’s education and development. The family lays the foundation for all future education and learning.
  • Parents are their children’s primary educators; they are their children’s first teachers. However, parents need help, education, and support to achieve this goal.
  • Parents must guide and direct young children’s learning.
  • Parents should be involved in every educational program their children are involved in.
  • Everyone should have knowledge of and training for child rearing.
  • Parents and other family members are collaborators in children’s learning.
  • Parents must encourage and support their children’s many interests and their unique ways of learning.

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