The Evolution of the Education & Training Industry

A person who learns a skilled trade by watching and helping an expert in that trade.

• dame school

• apprentice

• career and technical education

• Hornbook

A Colonial school in which both boys and girls were taught by women in their own homes. Parents paid a fee for their children to attend.

• dame school

• career and technical education

• Montessori Method

• Normal School

A teacher-training school that prepared men and women with the necessary skills to become teachers.

• normal school

• Hornbook

• apprentice

• McGuffey's Reader

The first widely used textbook series published during the American Common School Period. The books included moral lessons along with science, grammar, and other subjects.

• McGuffey Reader

• Apprentice

• Montessori Method

• dame school

The first public state-supported schools that gave the same education to people from different levels of society and educational institutions which include students of all ages in one classroom with one teacher

• common school

• normal school

• Monstoressi Method

• apprentice

The teaching principles developed by Maria Montessori, an Italian doctor, emphasizing self-directed learning through sensory experiences; considers all of a child’s needs, not just intellectual needs.

• dame school

• Montessori Method

• hornbook

• apprentice

A type of education that prepared (and still prepares) students for many career opportunities in specific trades and occupations where skilled workers were needed; formerly called vocational education.

• common school

• tutoring

• Dame School

• Career and Technical Education

A flat wooden board with a handle on which a sheet of paper—usually containing the alphabet, a prayer or two, and Roman numerals—was pasted on the board.

• hornbook

• McGuffey's Reader

• textbook

• Notebook

Working one-on-one or in a small group with a teacher is?

• learning

• tutoring

• apprenticing

Unable to read and write.

• national standards

• Charter school

• educational standards

• illiterate