Annie Sullivan Philosophy
A teacher’s role in the class room and values reflected modeling Anne Sullivan
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Rivier College
Abstract
Anne Sullivan became a teacher after facing learning difficulties, she was sent to the Perkins School for the blind, after finding out as a child she was forming blindness at the age of four. Anne was top of her class and was taught by the best teachers at that school. With their strict and disciplined way of teaching in the classroom she wanted to take that style and use it to help others. One of her students was a child born deaf and blind; Helen Keller’s family had a struggle finding answers, until they stumbled upon The Perkins School seeking help for Helen. Sullivan was appointed to teach her, deaf and blind with no past structure Anne had a lot of work to do. Annie’s philosophy of education was using social norms and strict discipline to show age appropriate social interactions relate to other philosophers theories in classrooms. These philosophers names being Lev Vygotsky and Jon Dewey, their method along with Anne’s are still used in today’s modern teaching philosophies.
Helen Keller was born and raised in Tuscumbia, Alabama during the 1880’s she is a very well-known figure throughout history because of the circumstances she face. Being born blind and deaf no one really believed that she would be able to learn, with such disabilities during that era it was not expectable the way Helen acted, no manners, un-lady like and uneducated. Though this was not her or her families’ fault something had to be done, out in the world somewhere there had to be a person that could teacher Helen. Anne Sullivan was contacted to be Helens teacher through The Perkins School for the Blind; she took the job with high expectations for Helen and had to be very strict with her. Anne’s belief and philosophy on education and the practices she had learned were similar and reflected upon two other educational
3843
Rivier College
Abstract
Anne Sullivan became a teacher after facing learning difficulties, she was sent to the Perkins School for the blind, after finding out as a child she was forming blindness at the age of four. Anne was top of her class and was taught by the best teachers at that school. With their strict and disciplined way of teaching in the classroom she wanted to take that style and use it to help others. One of her students was a child born deaf and blind; Helen Keller’s family had a struggle finding answers, until they stumbled upon The Perkins School seeking help for Helen. Sullivan was appointed to teach her, deaf and blind with no past structure Anne had a lot of work to do. Annie’s philosophy of education was using social norms and strict discipline to show age appropriate social interactions relate to other philosophers theories in classrooms. These philosophers names being Lev Vygotsky and Jon Dewey, their method along with Anne’s are still used in today’s modern teaching philosophies.
Helen Keller was born and raised in Tuscumbia, Alabama during the 1880’s she is a very well-known figure throughout history because of the circumstances she face. Being born blind and deaf no one really believed that she would be able to learn, with such disabilities during that era it was not expectable the way Helen acted, no manners, un-lady like and uneducated. Though this was not her or her families’ fault something had to be done, out in the world somewhere there had to be a person that could teacher Helen. Anne Sullivan was contacted to be Helens teacher through The Perkins School for the Blind; she took the job with high expectations for Helen and had to be very strict with her. Anne’s belief and philosophy on education and the practices she had learned were similar and reflected upon two other educational
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