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attracted Woods as its new head. This was the first college to train women teachers and it had just had new buildings. The college was in the same grounds as a high school. The college and high school were erected in 1892, designed by architect J. Osborne Smith, at a cost of £11,500
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on 6 August 1849 and she was brought up as a Quaker. Her parents were Emma (born King) and Samuel Woods. Her cousin Mary Woods was a headmistress. Woods went to
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in 1884 to lead the preparatory department of Chiswick High School. Alice became her lifelong friend - even after she left in 1893 to work with
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Woods was recognised as an expert on teaching and she was invited to speak abroad. She also served on leading committees to improve education.
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She was not a great administrator but she focused on raising the quality of the student's work. The students hoping to teach in
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Her first headship was at a school in Bedford Park, Chiswick. She head hunted Kindergarten expert
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and every other student was taught by teachers who all had their own degrees.
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George Meredith as Champion of Women and of Progressive Education (1937)
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George Meredith as Champion of Women and of Progressive Education
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before joining teaching herself in Scotland for two years at
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Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004).
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Index

Alice Woods (footballer)

Annie Swynnerton
Walthamstow
Radlett
Walthamstow
Girton College
St Leonards School
Esther Lawrence
Emilie Michaelis
Maria Grey Training College
Kindergartens
Maria Montessori
Froebel
Radlett
"Woods, Alice Augusta (1849–1941), educationist and college head"
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/48574
ISBN
978-0-19-861412-8
UK public library membership




"Woods, Alice Augusta (1849â€"1941), educationist and college head"
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/48574

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