Influential Educators

He is considered the Father of Kindergarten.

• Johann Pestalozzi

• Fredrich Froebel

• Horace Mann

• Booker T. Washington

This New Zealand educator and researcher synthesized meta-analyses of quantitative measures of the effect of different factors on educational outcomes. From this he created a list of what educational interventions are most and least effective.

• Horace Mann

• Robert Marzano

• Benjamin Bloom

• John Hattie

This researcher expanded the idea of intelligence to include eight types of intelligence including logical-mathematical, kinesthetic, musical, and others.

• Maria Montessori

• Howard Gardner

• Grant Wiggins

• Charlotte Danielson

This educator developed the idea that we learn through the processes of assimilation and accommodation to develop schema, or mental frameworks, of how things work.

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Marie Clay

• Jean Piaget

• Johann Pestalozzi

This psychologist developed the idea of the Zone of Proximal Development which is the developmental area where a student can learn independently and with the help of a more knowledgeable other.

• Lev Vygotsky

• John Dewey

• Booker T. Washington

• Robert Marzano

This educator developed the Reading Recovery program.

• Linda Darling-Hammond

• Benjamin Bloom

• Abraham Maslow

• Marie Clay

This psychologist developed behavioral analysis and outlined how to used behaviorism in schools.

• B. F. Skinner

• Jay McTighe

• Paulo Freire

• Howard Gardner

This Brazilian educator wanted to help lift the poor by educating them.

• Howard Gardner

• Marie Clay

• Jean Piaget

• Paulo Freire

This researcher was the lead author of the SOLO taxonomy

• Jay Wiggins

• Linda Darling-Hammond

• John Biggs

• Paulo Freire

This educator worked on teacher effectiveness developing the Framework for Teaching.

• Marie Clay

• Charlotte Danielson

• Benjamin Bloom

• Abraham Maslow