1. The Colonial Period (1607-1775)
Kylie, Brittani, Chantell

2. The Roots The American Education started in Jamestown colony.
Formal education was reserved for wealthy white males, and ignored females, people of color, and less wealthy.
Parents thought that the most important thing for their children was to learn christianity so they would learn to read the bible.

3. Southern Colonies
Georgia, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina were all about agriculture
If you weren’t wealthy you wouldn’t go to school at all (no public school).

4. Importance of Education in the Colonies
By learning to read and write, people gained access to God’s word through the bible. Education was important because it made people more righteous, industrious, resourceful and thrifty.

5. Middle Colonies
New York, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania
Middle Colonies are more diverse than Southern Colonies
Schools for every religion, culture, and language.
They had more religions, cultures,

6. The New England Colonies
Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire
Religion played a large part in this time in schools

7. Uniforms
Girls would wear dresses and skirts with an apron. Boys had to wear
dresses until they were 7,
which meant they
were growing up and
then would wear pants.

8. How the children were taught
By hands on reading and writing. Girls were taught how to cook and clean. Boys were taught how to read and write.

9. Education for Girls and Boys
Mostly upper class people would actually receive and education, and they would learn reading, writing, simple math, poems and prayers. They didn’t have a lot of paper or textbooks so they would recite their lessons until they memorized them. (

10. Teaching in Colonial Schools
Religion influenced the curriculum and the instruction
Focus on the 4 R’s
Reading
Writing
Arithmetic
Religion

11. Teaching in Colonial Schools (Cont)
Students were not allowed to ask questions or express opinions
The students must sit in their seat for long periods of time, quietly
Almost all teachers were men

12. Old Deluder Satan Act (1647)
Required every town 50+ to hire a teacher of reading and writing.
This influenced public education to begin.
Why was it made for real?
Produce citizens who understood the Bible and could thwart Satan’s Trickery.

13. The Influences of Europe
Humane
Child-centered
Practical view of education
Philosophers planted the seed of educational change that would change education forever.

14. European Philosophers
John Amos Comenuis ( )
Questions the effectiveness of memorization and recitation.
John Locke ( )
Emphasized the importance of firsthand experiences
Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( )
Opportunities for exploration and experimentation
Jobann Pestalozzi ( )
Criticized authoritarian educational practices

15. Why is Colonial Period awesome?
Shaped today education
Source of inequality in American schools (with exceptions)
Laid foundation for public education
Helps why religion continues to be important in education today

16. Works Cited www.socialstudiesforkids.com
Introduction to teaching by Don Kauchak and Paul Eggen.