One-room Schoolhouse

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Our world today is fast-paced and all about technology, sometimes we need to remember our past. Not saying that technology and the future is to be rejected our society can consider the experiences and practices of our ancestors (Smith). More particular the one-room schoolhouse and how it can be applied to the teaching of students today. The one-room schoolhouse is an iconic symbol of schooling as pioneers started settling the west. One-room schooling has a different but specific educational setting than today’s classroom does not have. Not saying go back to the past, it is “better” but see if the setting of the one-room schoolhouse can be applied to the teaching of students today.
To see one-room schoolhouses as an iconic symbol some history of the one-room schools is needed. One-room schools, for nearly 150 years, were the key of American Education. The schools were made for practical skills of the three R’s; reading, writing, and arithmetic, along with values of moral and spiritual. The early teacher started as men in the 1800s then moved to single women since the belief during this time was women raise our children they would be good teachers in late 1800s, by the 1900s women teachers were greater than men (Sanders). The school day back then was much different than today’s school day looks like. The teachers were also the nurse, janitor, umpire of recess games, and got water and fire wood (Sanders).

“The pyramid framework of The One Room Schoolhouse is as follows:
• The top consists of the fundamental goals, or end results desired.
• Next are the principles, or the intellectual framework that is necessary to promote the goals.
• The third level is the structure needed to carry out the principles in order to meet the goals.
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Sanders, M. S. Retrieved from http://oneroomschoolhouse.edublogs.org/about/
Smith, K. J. The One-Room Schoolhouse Today Living History, Looking Forward.
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