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.lifecirclesinc.com/Learningtheories/behaviorism/Thorndike.html
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-18781958.html
John Dewey – Social Constructivism
http://www.pragmatism.org/genealogy/columbia.htm
http://www.johndewey.org/Welcome.html
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
1930 - 1940
Ralph W. Tyler, Eight Year Plan – 1933
http://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/2517/Tyler-Ralph-W1902-1994.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
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/briansclass-famous-people/edgar-dale
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
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
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
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
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
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/