3. 1900 - 1910 Maria Montessori- Montessori Method, sensory training, teaching the whole child - 1909 http://www.montessori.edu/maria.html http://www.montessori.edu/ Edward Lee Thorndike – Connectionism – 1910 http://neuron-ai.tuke.sk/NCS/VOL1/P3_html/node10.html http://www.lifecircles- inc.com/Learningtheories/behaviorism/Thorndike.html

4. 1919 - 1920 James Watson – Behaviorism – 1913 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dh13wa.html http://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/2543/Watson-John-B-1878- 1958.html John Dewey – Social Constructivism http://www.pragmatism.org/genealogy/columbia.htm http://www.johndewey.org/Welcome.html

5. 1920 - 1930 Sidney Pressey, teaching machine– 1924 http://www.coe.uh.edu/courses/cuin6373/idhistory/pressey.html http://newsroom-magazine.com/tag/sidney-pressey/ W. H. Kilpatrick, project method implemented, 1927 http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4954/ http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JITE/v34n3/Knoll.html

6. 1930 - 1940 Ralph W. Tyler, Eight Year Plan – 1933 http://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/2517/Tyler-Ralph-W- 1902-1994.htmlhttp://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/2517/Tyler-Ralph-W- 1902-1994.html http://wredu.com/~wriles/Tyler.html Lev Vygotsky, Zone of Proximal Development http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_proximal_development http://www.newfoundations.com/GALLERY/Vygotsky.html

7. 1940 - 1950 B. F. Skinner, Theory of Knowledge http://www.newfoundations.com/GALLERY/Skinner.html Edgar Dale, Cone of Experience http://rapidbi.com/created/Coneofexperience-dale.html http://itls.usu.edu/wiki/foundations-2008/brians- class-famous-people/edgar-dale

8. 1950 - 1960 Abraham Maslow, Humanism http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/maslow.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bhmasl.html Benjamin Bloom, Bloom’s Taxonomy –1956 http://oaks.nvg.org/taxonomy-bloom.html http://nwlink.com/~Donclark/hrd/bloom.html

9. 1960 - 1970 B.F. Skinner, Behaviorism, Operant Conditioning http://www.sntp.net/behaviorism/skinner.htm http://www.nndb.com/people/297/000022231/ Jerome Bruner, Discovery Learning – 1960 The Process of Education http://www.infed.org/thinkers/bruner.htm http://www.newfoundations.com/GALLERY/Bruner.html

10. 1970 - 1980 Robert Mager, Criterion Reference Instruction, 1975 http://my-ecoach.com/project.php?id=12152&project_step=28469 http://tip.psychology.org/mager.html Robert Gagne, Theory of Learning – Task Analysis http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/articles/gagnesevents/ http://www.jstor.org/pss/3345479

11. 1980 - 1990 David Kolb, Experiential Learning Model – http://www.infed.org/biblio/b-explrn.htm http://www.dkolb.org/ Howard Gardner – 1983 Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences http://my-ecoach.com/project.php?id=12152&project_step=28710 http://www.indiana.edu/~intell/gardner.shtml

12. 1990 - 2000 Marie Clay, Reading Recovery – 1992 http://www.readingrecovery.org/reading_recovery/facts/index.asp http://www.marieclaytrust.com/Marie_Clay_Trust/Biography.html Charles Reigeluth, Elaboration Theory – 1994 http://www.lifecircles-inc.com/Learningtheories/reigeluth.html

13. 2000 - 2010 Richard Allington, top reading researcher http://teachersread.net/About.htm http://www.learner.org/workshops/teachreading35/session2/index.html Patricia Cunningham, Four Block literacy program http://www.four-blocks.com/ http://www.wfu.edu/education/fourblocks/