PRET Unit 1 Vocab History of Education Vocabulary

Someone who learns a skilled trade by watching and helping someone in that trade in early America

• Journeyman

• Apprentice

• Tutor

• Student

Required by law.

• Compulsory

• Voluntary

• Negotiable

The quality of being fair and impartial.

• Objective

• True

• Honesty

• Equity

A relationship between an individual and a government in which the individual participates in systems and processes and the government provides services.

• Declaration of Independence

• Advocacy

• Citizenship

• Democracy

The teaching of adults

• Andragogy

• Pedagogy

The teaching of children.

• Pedagogy

• Andragogy

The first widely used textbooks published during the American Common School Period that included moral lessons along with science, grammar, and other subjects. Was written by Reverend William Holmes McGuffey. Their wide use contributed to standardization of American education

• Hornbook

• Dictionary

• McGuffey Reader

• Bible

A teacher training school in early America

• Common School

• Normal School

• Dame School

• Teacher College

This was the first public state supported schools available to children from all levels of society.

• College

• Private School

• Normal School

• Common School

This early textbook contained the letters of the alphabet, numbers and a prayer. It was used in early colonial America.

• Slate

• Bible

• Hornbook

• McGuffey Readers