Siegfried Engelmann

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Siegfried (Zig) Engelmann (born November 26, 1931 in Chicago , Illinois - † February 15, 2019 ) was an American educator and the founder of direct instruction .

Life

Engelmann studied at the University of Illinois at Champaign and graduated in 1954 with an Honors BA in Philosophy. From 1955 to 1960 he worked as an independent investment advisor. From 1960 he worked for four years as creative director, vice-president and in other positions in advertising agencies. In researching psychological literature for his clients, he discovered that the way children learn was poorly understood. He founded child-centered groups for market tests with his twins, neighborhood children and children of work colleagues in preschool age. With that, his interest shifted from advertising to education. After teaching his twins math for six months, their skills were documented in a film. He hoped the film would help him get a job in education.

From 1964 to 1966 he conducted research at the Institute for Research on Exceptional Children at the University of Illinois at Champaign and was project leader for the Bereiter-Engelmann preschool program for disadvantaged children between the ages of four and six and an investigation into how intelligence is acquired and can be taught.

After a summer semester at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in Toronto , he returned to the University of Illinois, where he was involved in various projects as a senior educational scientist at the Institute on Exceptional Children and Bureau of Educational Research from 1966 to 1970 . He investigated how specific teaching methods would improve the learning ability of children and young adults. These programs included high school students from poor backgrounds, preschoolers with Down syndrome, and disadvantaged youth from the Bereiter-Engelmann program . During this time he developed logic and methods for the Direct Instruction System for Teaching Arithmetic and Reading, DISTAR.

In 1970 Engelmann became an assistant professor of special needs education at the University of Oregon and in 1974 he was promoted to full professor. From 1969 to 1972 Engelmann was involved in the Head Start project of the US Office of Education and then until 1993 in the follow-up project Project Follow Through of the US Office of Education and Office of Economic Opportunity , the largest study in education worldwide to date. Engelmann retired in 2004.

The Engelmann Foundation is committed to continuing the legacy of the late Siegfried "Zig" Engelmann by supporting, promoting and further training educators around the world who implement direct lessons with their students.

As part of his No Child Left Behind Act school reform campaign , George W. Bush attended Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota , Florida on the morning of September 11, 2001 . There he took part in a direct instruction lesson that demonstrated the reading exercise ( Reading makes a country great ) The Pet Goat from Engelmann's book Reading Mastery 2 . The video scene during which Bush was informed of the terrorist attacks became known internationally and was the subject of Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11 .

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Engelmann's most important work was the development of the Direct Instruction (DISTAR) teaching method , a special form of class teaching , and its successful use and practical test in the Follow Through project from 1969 to 1993. The aim of this US government project was to create effective teaching models for disadvantaged preschoolers to be evaluated in a practical test in order to then be able to use them in the “war on poverty”. The children of the three Engelmann-Becker schools were compared with other teaching methods. The Engelmann-Becker model was used in twenty school districts for children in the first to third primary grades. Teacher training and research were geared towards finding the specific variables that made the difference in student progress.

His work has included participation in numerous subsidized research programs, 18 books, numerous articles and educational programs, tests, games and videos for reading, spelling, math, language and writing.

“ We won't drop you. We will not disadvantage or give up on you, no matter how unprepared you are by traditional standards. We will not label you like dyslexic or brain-damaged and shirk the responsibility of teaching you. We will not punish you by asking you to do things that you cannot. We will not talk about your difficulties in learning. Rather, we will pick you up where you are and teach you. And the extent to which you fail is our failure, not yours. We're not going to back down and say, 'He can't learn'. Rather, we will say, 'I failed to teach him. So I better take a look at what I've done and try to find a better way. ' "

- Siegfried Engelmann: Teaching needy kids in our backward system: 42 years of trying, 2007.

Fonts (selection)

  • Siegfried and Therese Engelmann: Children's school from zero to five years. A guide for parents. Hyperion-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 1969/1984, ISBN 3778603140
  • Siegfried Engelmann: War Against the Schools' Academic Child Abuse . Halcyon House, Portland 1992
  • Gary L. Adams, Siegfried Engelmann: Research on Direct Instruction: 25 Years Beyond DISTAR . Educational Achievement System Publisher, Seattle WA 1996
  • Siegfried Engelmann: Teaching needy kids in our backward system: 42 years of trying . Association for Direct Instruction ADI Press, Eugene (Oregon) 2007.
  • Siegfried Engelmann: Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons . Simon & Schuster Verlag, New York 1986. ISBN 978-0-671-63198-7
  • Siegfried Engelmann, Elaine C. Bruner: Reading Mastery - Level 2 Storybook 1 . Reading Mastery Rainbow Edition series, Sra 1997, ISBN 978-0026863551

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary accessed on February 26, 2019
  2. ↑ [1] NIFDI obituary for Siegfried "Zig" Engelmann
  3. ^ Siegfried Engelmann Homepage: Kurt and Owen learn mathematics
  4. ^ [2] Demonstration of the Bereiter Engelmann Preschool Program at the Colonel Wolf School, 1965
  5. ↑ Disadvantaged kindergarten children practice mathematics with Zig Engelmann, video from 1966
  6. ↑ [3] The Reflective Educator: a teaching lesson with Siegfried Engelmann
  7. ↑ Homepage of the Engelmann Foundation
  8. ^ The New York Times, Nov. 10, 2002: No Child Left Behind; Does it work
  9. ^ Siegfried Engelmann, Elaine C. Bruner: Reading Mastery - Level 2 Storybook 1
  10. ↑ Konstantin Kirsch Blog: The Unusual Short Film: The Pet Goat
  11. ^ The New Yorker of July 26, 2004: The Pet Goat Approach
  12. ^ [4] Psychology Learning Resources: Engelmann's Theory of Instruction
  13. ↑ National Institute for Direct Instruction NIFDI: Research on Direct Instruction: 25 Years Beyond DISTAR (Engelmann & Adams, 1996)
personal data
SURNAME Engelmann, Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engelmann, Zig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American educator and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH 15th February 2019