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Sequence 26SLIDE SHOW TO INTRODUCE WHAT Is MONTESSORI PRESCHOOL? Maria Montessori was, in many ways, ahead of her time. Born in Italy… |
Sequence 27Maria Montessori died in 1952, but her work continues. Today there are close to five thousand private and approximately two… |
Sequence 33In the Montessori tradition, there is little separation between the indoors and the out- doors. Sometimes nature is a part of… |
Sequence 35SLIDE SHOW TO INTRODUCE WHAT Is MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY? Montessori education does not end with the preschool experience. It… |
Sequence 7THE THEORY OF MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES: IN SUPPORT OF MONTESSORI by David Kahn The November 1995 NAMTA conference entitled… |
Sequence 56They are preoccupied with the mechanical side of teaching the children to read and write and do not take the intelligent… |
Sequence 82personality. It supports all the traits needed for the child's adaptation to a society that is in continuous change, so… |
Sequence 107gence. The abstraction of the essence of objects and ideas and the subsequent formation of an image allied to the essence set… |
Sequence 132WHAT IT MEANS TO FOLLOW THE CHILD by Martha McDermott Martha McDermott makes an evocative plea for accepting children where… |
Sequence 145WHY NoT CONSIDER ERDKINDER? by Peter Gebhardt-Seele Answering possible objections and citing his own personal experiences,… |
Sequence 146The word is obviously German. Literally it would translate into English as "earth children." It is a plural… |
Sequence 147to revolt. If self-construction is obstructed, deviation may occur, which can lead to an inferiority complex, maladjustment,… |
Sequence 150Greek, ·French, Latin, science, history. High school ends with the toughest exam in one's life. Without passing it, one… |
Sequence 151and some of them will be constructed by the students. A traditional high school in an urban setting may need a smaller place,… |
Sequence 153visitors. One engaged us in Latin readings, another showed me how to play the guitar. When the refugees came from eastern… |
Sequence 156gether. If they could function so beautifully in an environment de- signed for their psychological characteristics, could the… |
Sequence 171THE NORMALIZED SCHOOL: MONTESSORI AS A WAY OF LIFE by Mary Zeman Mary Zeman offers a definition of the "nonnalized… |
Sequence 173occasionally, after warming up with a few easy questions-why is the program five days a week, what do you do about discipline… |
Sequence 178have a bell but more surprised by the way it is used-and by what the bell isn't. The occasional use of the bell in a… |
Sequence 182When something is amiss in our classroom, in our school, among the parents, or within ourselves, why not take Montessori'… |
Sequence 185EVOLVING THROUGH TRANSITIONS: MITIGATING ANXIETIES by Sharon L. Dubble Sharon Dubble evolves a new vision of the school… |
Sequence 186through adolescence), Montessori schools are seeking to understand how best to proceed. Where can schools look for guidance?… |
Sequence 209MONTESSORI TODAY: A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO EDUCATION FROM BIRTH TO ADULTHOOD, BY p AULA POLK LILLARD by David Kahn… |
Sequence 211Chapter Two, "An Overview of the Primary Years," is an expert portrait of the prepared environment for the… |
Sequence 214THE FOUR PLANES OF DEVELOPMENT by Camillo Grazzini Camillo Grazzini presents two charts designed by Maria Montessori to… |
Sequence 216What I propose to do today is not to repeat, or even to summarize, what has already been said by Montessorians preceding me,… |
Sequence 228century, no scientist or philosopher any longer believed in the idea of linear development during the prenatal period, in the… |
Sequence 229Chart 2 I THE 4 PLANES OF DEVELOPMENT! I THE <BULB> I ,~~;;;,a ~ ~ ~&El □oc::9 the product of… |
Sequence 239MARIA MONTESSORI ANO PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION During the two decades between the first publication of The Montessori Method 18 (… |
Sequence 240John Dewey's American pedagogy and William Heard Kilpatrick's realization of this (Project-Method, 1918); Carleton… |
Sequence 241The Italian government did not join the IBE and thereby indirectly favored the dominating influence of the Geneva group of… |
Sequence 10Furthermore, in a natural, homelike all-day setting, children's capacity for work is given more time and more… |
Sequence 14THE CHILDREN' s HOUSE by Lili E. Peller Lili Peller' s interest in creating the right environment as a decisive… |
Sequence 48THE CASA OF SEVRES, FRANCE by Margot Waltuch Margot Waltuch's pictorial documentation and personal description of her… |
Sequence 63a way any Montessorian would be pleased to observe and commend. This happened because the Montessori directress was there to… |
Sequence 72matters like eating and resting during the course of the day must be addressed. Should lunch be prepared by the children on… |
Sequence 82space is not very large, but it allows the children access to the outdoors at any time. We use this space all year long for… |
Sequence 102OUTDOOR SETTINGS FOR PLAYING AND LEARNING: DESIGNING SCHOOL GROUNDS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE WHOLE CHILD AND WHOLE… |
Sequence 145SOCRATIC PRACTICE: INTELLECTUAL ENGAGEMENT AS THE GOAL OF CLASSROOM CONVERSATION by Mike Strong Going beyond Paideia and… |
Sequence 5EDITORIAL: p ATHWAYS TO MATURITY by David Kahn As the new year is underway and we approach the twenty-first century with… |
Sequence 7America were developed to imitate the solidity of traditional schools. Although they included multi-age groups, prepared… |
Sequence 18EVALUATING EXPERIENCES IN ADOLESCENT PROGRAMS by Peter Gebhardt-Seele Dr. Gebhardt-Seele asserts that the development of… |
Sequence 19When Maria Montessori set up her first class environment in San Lorenzo in 1907, there were many educational scholars who… |
Sequence 20A most striking account of Maria Montessori's willingness to observe without prejudice is the episode of the child… |
Sequence 23We may summarize this list by speaking of the harmonizing of the child's personality. Any With the Erdkinder model we… |
Sequence 44COSMIC EDUCATION AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL AND THE ROLE OF THE MATERIALS by Carnillo Grazzini The first section of Mr.… |
Sequence 50is try or physics, and you cannot study life without its environ- ment, which brings us to geography. But then again, you… |
Sequence 56This cosmic fable begins something like this: I know of a marvelous nation, a marvelous country where the inhabitants are… |
Sequence 58"IN Mv SERVICE Is PERFECT FREEDOM!" Some advanced Montessori training courses do not include the sixth… |
Sequence 60answers or ideological solutions to the problems facing humanity. Furthermore, on the personal level, Montessori had no reason… |
Sequence 62The first is like a river which carries substances to all parts of the body. But it acts also as a collector. In fact, the… |
Sequence 63beings, the exploration of this aspect of human society, we usually identify as economic geography in our courses. Montessori… |
Sequence 64In this lecture, Montessori explores at great length her idea of the "union among the peoples," "… |
Sequence 154EVOLUTION AS PHILOSOPHY AND ACTION by Judith Cunningham-Scott Judith Cunningham-Scott's survey of the spiritual and… |
Sequence 155The story has been celebrated in elaborate rituals. It has provided moral and ethical guidance and sustained energy in… |
Sequence 158Thomas Berry hopes that the next geological era of evolution following the Cenozoic will be the Ecozoic Era (eco-, "… |
Sequence 159outer world we have altered our inner world. A barren Earth will be mirrored in the depths of the human soul (1992, p. 249).… |
Sequence 163GROWING SCHOOLS FOR HUMAN GROWTH by Sharon Dubble Sharon Dubble' s philosophy of developing schools incorporates a… |
Sequence 164Yet here we are, coming together to talk about schools-how to build whole schools. And we are drawn to learn together as a… |
Sequence 176part begins to compete for attention, resources, power. There is a climate of "us versus them": primary… |
Sequence 179PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT FOR THE NORTH AVONDALE MONTESSORI SCHOOL by the Cincinnati Public Schools Montessori Assessment… |
Sequence 182we introduce the children to the idea of respect of all of us for one another. (Stephenson, 1993, p. 26) A rich body of… |
Sequence 184• Self-Perfection and its close allies Repetition and Exactness (the tendency to become better human beings); and • Creation… |
Sequence 186"The concept is that the total environment design conveys the essential principles of all disciplines through… |
Sequence 232investment in the school culture. It is the relationship with the guide, however, that ultimately determines whether the… |
Sequence 235WHAT'S WRONG WITH TUTORING? Life is a search for meaning. Meaning is the key to a satisfying life. For us Montessorians… |
Sequence 237inclusive community, not one that divides them in order to conquer, but one that unifies them in order to set them free. I… |
Sequence 256e The Montessori Training Center of St. Louis (est. 1972) • authentic • rigorous • in-depth a nine-month academic year… |
Sequence 270At Home with Montessori This booklet encourages rethinking the home from the perspective of how adults and children,… |
Sequence 1E'fObdlon 'lhaly Clik.rzentmihalyi and Cnathlty by Mihaly Csiksr.ernmihalyi A Montessori Journey of Self by… |
Sequence 4REDISCOVERING NORMALIZATION: DEEPENING THE MONTESSORI EXPERIENCE ...,,., FOREWORD… |
Sequence 5Freedom-a/low control over the activity. To give more control and freedom gives even more interesting options. We must set… |
Sequence 6FOREWORD: FINDING FLOW IN MONTESSORI Imagine a river in time, a time span of one hundred years. On the one side there is… |
Sequence 79son to follow in his footsteps, but the son decided to join the goldsmith's guild because suddenly being an artist was… |
Sequence 118feelings. Coles tells the story of an eight-year-old girl who refused to participate in a spelling bee, despite her teacher… |
Sequence 122INTEGRATING CSIKSZENTMIHALYI AND MONTESSORI by Chulanganee Fernando As a tribute to Dr. Csikszentmihalyi's work, Ms.… |
Sequence 127NORMALIZATION AND NORMALITY ACROSS THE PLANES OF DEVELOPMENT by David Kahn With the current emphasis on the four planes of… |
Sequence 134Montessorians say that chil- dren are "normalized," they usually mean that they find work without being… |
Sequence 137selves to concentration" (Montessori, 1948, p. 23). Normality de- pends on harnessing the deep synthesizing powers of… |
Sequence 141REFERENCES Gebhardt-Seele, P. (1997). Evaluating experiences in adolescent programs. The NAMTA Journal, 22(1), 14-21.… |
Sequence 144THE NORMALIZED CHILD by Kathleen H. Futrell Kit Futrell's classic, based on a parent talk she first delivered in 1966,… |
Sequence 164THE SPIRITUAL REGENERATION OF MAN by Maria Montessori This article recasts the role of normalization as "spiritual… |
Sequence 4PREFACE The Adolescent Colloquium was planned by the Montessori Teacher Education Collaborative about six months before it… |
Sequence 8FIRST PRACTITIONER: JOHN LONG In a subsistence-level, agricultural society, the 13- or 14- or 15- year-old is not quite an… |
Sequence 9as a member of a community. This is, according to Montessori, a sensitive period for finding one's place in society. As… |
Sequence 20Family is also important. In spite of conventional wisdom, ado- lescents need to be intimately tied to their families. They… |
Sequence 29don't think the cosmic plan can be fully explored at the second plane. It is too vast. That is why Montessori tells us to… |
Sequence 51urgent need to come up with a model and a training concept for that model. But if it is not carefully designed, we would be… |
Sequence 533. Age Level • The third plane is 12-18. I don't think Maria Montessori said there would be two different models for 12-… |
Sequence 55QUESTIONS David Kahn asked whether a decontextualized, component-by-compo- nent analysis is really how Montessorians operate… |
Sequence 59sori. Furthermore, all the new "mushroom" programs are looking to these distinguished programs for guidance… |
Sequence 64training, saying that his aim had been to do the former. His interpre- tation of what Montessori is saying could be integrated… |
Sequence 66Monte Kenison stated that we do not compromise our Primary and Elementary classrooms according to what parents are willing to… |
Sequence 73Renilde Montessori, granddaughter of Maria Montessori, is General Secretary of AMI. Orcillia Oppenheimer is founder of The… |
Sequence 10PART I UNDERSTANDING SELF-DISCIPLINE Like others I had believed that it was necessary to encourage a child by means of some… |
Sequence 118another more spiritual realm. Maria Montessori said, "creative work ... lifts man up from earth and transports him… |
Sequence 120creative flow and forget all else. There is a sustained drive toward perfection. Artists follow an inner voice that compels… |
Sequence 122But the mind must have something to express. Imagination rests on facts and on information which have accumulated in some… |
Sequence 144PART II THE EPIC OF EVOLUTION Since it has been seen to be necessary to give so much to the child, let us give him a vision… |
Sequence 168from the Great Community of the Universe. This Primordial Com- munity existed through the presence of the indwelling Spirit… |