1. Past and Present Educators that have Shaped our Approach to Teaching
Susan Shrout, Lisel Pias ,Erin Sullivan, and Nick Coenraad
June 24, 2009
EDF 500

2. Benjamin Bloom Benjamin Bloom was born in 1913 in Lansford, PA.
Received a B.A. and M.S. from Penn State in 1935, and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1942.
He spent 30 years at the University of Chicago, and it was during this time, that he developed what we know today as Bloom’s Taxonomy.
As an American educational psychologist, Bloom published over 17 books, and numerous professional articles.
Although Bloom spent most of his professional life at the University of Chicago, where he held the Charles H. Swift Distinguished Service endowed chair, he was also a member of numerous educational associations, most notably the National Academy of Education and the American Educational Research Association before his death in 1999.

3. Major Accomplishments of Benjamin Bloom
Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Classification became the standard for describing objectives and the process to achieve them
Revolutionized the process of lesson planning for classroom
Nature of Intelligence
Nature vs. Nurture controversy
Mastery Learning
Provide higher quality and more appropriate instruction for students
Giftedness
Prolific research in this area

4. Bloom’s Taxonomy Explained

5. Linda Darling-Hammond
Linda Darling-Hammond received her B.A. from Yale University in 1973 and Ed.D., specializing in Urban Education, from Temple University in 1978.
She is arguably one of the most profound educational professors/researchers in the United States. In 2006, she was named one of the nation’s top ten most influential people affecting educational policy over the last decade.
She has written over 300 articles and books for publication, and has done extensive research on teacher quality and setting benchmarks for educational equity in the U.S. and abroad.
As the first educational advisor for then-Senator Barack Obama, she developed his educational benchmarks for his presidential campaign. She was also rumored to be President Obama’s top choice for U.S. Secretary of Education.
Since 1998, she has been an education professor and researcher at Stanford University.

6. Linda Darling-Hammond on:
Assessments and Instruction
Nation at Risk reaction
Assessment Mechanisms and Alternative Assessment
The Discrepancy
QUALITY, QUALIFIED TEACHERS
Initial Qualifications
Tests
Teach for America
INVEST in teachers vs. CONTROLLING teachers
A lack of trust
Professional Development, home and abroad
Need to retain good teachers

7. Teaching as a Profession
PREPARATION
Knowledge of Teaching -Teaching Subject Matter -Teaching Diverse Learners -Assessment -Classroom Management
Knowledge of Learners and the Development in Socials Contexts -Learning -Human development -Language
Knowledge of Subject and Curriculum Goals -Educational Goals and Purposes for Skills, content subject matter
Vision of Professional Practice

8. John Goodlad
John Goodlad was born in 1917 in North Vancouver, British Columbia.
The Great Depression shaped his childhood and his schooling as he attended a six-room school in a rural setting where higher education was not something he expected to pursue.
He was not a traditional university student. He attended summer and correspondence classes at the University of British Columbia and received both his B.A. and M.A. in this fashion. In 1949, he received a Ph.D. in one year from the University of Chicago.
He has authored and co-authored over 35 books and published over 200 educational articles.
He has held professorships at many universities, but most recently, Goodlad is professor emeritus and co-director of the Center for Educational Renewal at the University of Washington.

9. John Goodlad Significant contributions Early Period (1947- 1960)
Second Period ( )
Current Positions (1983-present)

10. Significant Publications
John Goodlad has been cited in numerous textbooks over the years. Some of his most cited books are:
A Place Called School: Prospects for the Future (1984)
Largest on-the-scene study of US schools ever undertaken
Results of research dealt with:
School culture, classroom culture, school climate
Educational aspects of the school and classroom
Attitude of students toward education in today’s schools
The Moral Dimensions of Teaching (1990)
Four moral dimensions are explained