Let the children teach. JOSEPH LANCASTER Lancaster School “Monitorial Model” 1778 -1838 Presented by Anna Hoffman
BACKGROUND • Born in London • Son of a shopkeeper • Lived a poor life • Quaker
HISTORICAL RELEVANCE • Monitorial System of Education • Education for millions of Poor children th • 19 century • Students as teachers • Taught by a teacher • King George III
PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATION • Corporal Punishment wasn’t the answer • Memorization was at the heart of learning • Correlated curriculum
REPUTATION • Not an advocate for corporal punishment • Poor • Strict • Educator of the Poor
DRAWBACKS • Quality of the teachers • Severe economies of scale • Board of Education • Military-Precision in Classroom • Little Creative thinking allowed • Disruption of the social classes
BENEFITS • Student : Mentor Ratio • Monitors excelled • Educated Lower Class
BENEFITS CONT. • Education for the Masses • 100 Groups • 1 Mentor per 10 Students • 1000 Students
CONCLUSION • Joseph Lancaster • Early Innovator of today’s free Public Education • Believed in Education for the poorest of the poor