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Sequence 70social sciences would include anthropology, sociology, psychology, moral philosophy, aesthetics and art history, comparative… |
Sequence 71Project 0: Induction Programming (Implementation Assistance) Objectives Teacher induction has been defined as a transition… |
Sequence 72Project M: Middle School Objectives The Montessori Middle School Task Force will consist of seven Montessori practitioners.… |
Sequence 75Project ff: Humanities/Great Civilizations Objectives Upper Elementary and Middle School Development A special curriculum,… |
Sequence 78meetings, sleeping, and meals. The premise of a farm is that one can best study and understand the role of technology in the… |
Sequence 79informed by their child's process of learning, early intervention is real, and Montessori principles are actualized in… |
Sequence 812. To better connect teacher-directed and child-directed work; to investigate ways to maximize self-directed activities; to… |
Sequence 86Christopher Harris, (Office of Chief State School Officers), and Rexford Brown (Education Commission of the States) will… |
Sequence 87While augmenting the design, Montessori 2000 will also unjfy the national Montessori infrastructure and expand this network to… |
Sequence 88thousand Montessori private schools and one hundred public schools in seventy school districts. Montessori schools are… |
Sequence 89MONTESSORI 2000 MISSION T he United States of America is thirsting for bold, new education designs. The exponential knowledge… |
Sequence 91Montessori 2000 A Proposal Submitted to the New American Schools Development Corporation Submitted by David Kahn… |
Sequence 92in the United States. With all educational levels currently operating in America, the year 2000 calls for the first… |
Sequence 93THE IMPORTANCE OF MONTESSORI 2000 New American Schools Development Corporation (NASDC) was founded in 199 l by Lamar… |
Sequence 1APPENDIX I HERSHEY MONTESSORI ERDKINDER PROJECT A Preliminary Proposal by Michael Bagiackas Hershey Montessori School has… |
Sequence 3Utilizing the fanning community fonnat provides opportunities for hands-on activities which offer immediate feedback as well… |
Sequence 10Laboratory at Hershey Montessori School has become a mini-nature preserve among an increasing number of family dwellings.… |
Sequence 2one 12 to 14); an art room; music/aftercare room; conference rooms; additional library space; and a full-size kitchen. This… |
Sequence 3implementation of the Montessori model but will provide a wealth of more general information about children's school… |
Sequence 1EDITORIAL THE MONTESSORI LEGACY- CONNECTING THE INDOOR AND OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTS T ilian Katz, a prominent early childhood… |
Sequence 2Lake now supports a thriving fishing and recreation industry. Locally neighborhoods are adopting measures for recycling and… |
Sequence 3Action suggested by this journal will take time and careful application of Montessori theory and practice. Outlined here is… |
Sequence 7Direct application of ideas conceived through observations and interpre- tation of the work of children is curriculum… |
Sequence 9Hershey staff applied con- scientious effort to attain its degree of unity. Most signi fi- cant was an approximately six-… |
Sequence 11Fine arts generalist, Kathleen Poole, Montessori trained in elementary, worked with her troop of girl scouts to begin clearing… |
Sequence 13Steps of the process have closely united the staff of Hershey Montessori School in this outdoor work. Adults who work with… |
Sequence 6will know the pleasure of watching, petting, or providing for the needs of animals. They will learn how animals live and how… |
Sequence 2day by deciding which projects need to be accomplished, overseeing the gathering of tools, and purchasing of materials,… |
Sequence 4strong, and working wilh the hands and body is still joyful. Although these children are capable of high levels of abstraction… |
Sequence 1strong, and working wilh the hands and body is still joyful. Although these children are capable of high levels of abstraction… |
Sequence 3THE CHILDREN'S GARDEN by Carrie Driver-Johnson, Mark Johnson, and Lori Butler The idea for the MacDowell Montessori… |
Sequence 5The Montessori environment is a perfect one in which to facilitate a cosmic gardening experience. Children need a safe place… |
Sequence 1EDITORIAL REINVENTING MONTESSORI: PERILS AND POSSIBILITIES by David Kahn To what degree is the fundamental test of… |
Sequence 2and refinement of the Montessori materials over time and in the persona implicit in the sentiment of Montessori's writing… |
Sequence 3educationalese all have a purpose. But in my estimation they represent exercises in minutiae-the kind of minutiae that… |
Sequence 4elementary and adolescent planes. The reflective discussions about the human faculties of abstraction and imagination-all this… |
Sequence 2approach? Look at the history of the psychoanalytic movement as an analogy to that of the Montessori movement. Sigmund Freud… |
Sequence 1THE DEVELOPMENT OF AUTONOMY IN CHILDREN: AN EXAMINATION OF THE MONTESSORI EDUCATIONAL MODEL by Sharon Dubble Kendall, Ph.D… |
Sequence 2Montessori views personal autonomy as intercon- nected with social respon- sibility and the evolution of human societies.… |
Sequence 4theories of Erikson, Piaget, and other constructivists, the central theme of this new paradigm is the assumption that the… |
Sequence 5elucidate those factors of the Montessori model which may affect the devel- opment of autonomy among students. Methods The… |
Sequence 6sample included only those third-year students who had a minimum of four years' experience in a Montessori program. To… |
Sequence 7elementary schools within the same geographic location to serve as a compari- son group. This group was composed of third-… |
Sequence 9Each observation period required approximately two hours; at the comple- tion of each session the observer tallied the checks… |
Sequence 10Among Montessori students, problem solving behavior was recorded a to- tal of 111 times, whereas among tra- d i tiona I… |
Sequence 12The same relationship held true when percentages were computed across both samples for each activity subgroup. Jn examining… |
Sequence 13groups based upon the total number of observations recorded for each group (see Table 3). By looking at the combined… |
Sequence 14Figure 2 Comparison of Problem Solving Behavior Within Samples 73.3% 43.2% 24.3% I I 20.7% 18.8% 11.7% ■ 13.3% Ill… |
Sequence 16categories of behavior observed, the Montessori students showed a signifi- cantly higher degree of those behaviors indicating… |
Sequence 17personal autonomy. For example, the greater incidence of independent activ- ity becomes a more significant indicator of… |
Sequence 18The study supports the findings of Bruner, DeCharms, and others that self- motivation is part of a complex process In… |
Sequence 19The analysis of behaviors characterizing autonomy in this study implies the cyclical nature of its development, involving the… |
Sequence 20Bruner, Jerome S. ( 1971 ). The relevance of education. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company. Chadwick, Bruce A; Bahr… |
Sequence 4to examine, I will have fulfilled my purpose tonight. Appreciation of oneself and commitment to continue the process of one… |
Sequence 5the analogy of "dropped stitches" for potentialities that are missed. We could say that human identity is a… |
Sequence 7dependent. We depend on what other people think and on "looking good." We sometimes feel used or possessed… |
Sequence 8sensitive periods. These givens are powered by a kind of life force energy that she called horme. With the powers infants and… |
Sequence 10ness. I suggest that one way to practice this art of living is to make this personal identity a teacher identity. What Does… |
Sequence 11that." The child creates another spark of identity in that moment. It is not imitation. It is creation. Dr.… |
Sequence 12movements at all times, not just at school. We learned to notice small details, and we learned to give great lessons. We… |
Sequence 13Dr. Montessori spoke about the child's relationship to the guide. The child seems to realize that the guide can do things… |
Sequence 2When she agreed to take responsibility for these children, however, it was not in order to police their actions or treat them… |
Sequence 3a prepared environment to act freely, Montessori came to a fundamental realization: "The child works for his own… |
Sequence 4The Prepared Environment: Building a Way of Life, Not Just a Curriculum To retain the emotional vigor which underlies… |
Sequence 5through the total prepared environment. And this, I hasten to add, is real work, the work of transforming the self, the work… |
Sequence 6are lo be transformed; instead of frustrating the learner's eager desire for work, as they so often do today, they are to… |
Sequence 1THE INTELLECTUAL LIVES OF TEACHERS by Edwin J. Delattre Edwin Delattre recommends 1hat professional in-service challenge the… |
Sequence 17teachers to work with administrators on a plan for released time distribution and an in-service schedule for the system.… |
Sequence 3EXPAND THE HEAD START PROGRAM-BY REVAMPING CHAPTER 1 by Edward Zigler and Susan Muenchow Head Start using Montessori methods… |
Sequence 9Montessori Provides an Answer It is in fact Montessori's uniqueness that makes it a strong answer to the critics of Head… |
Sequence 10have shown, for instance, that the gains recent Head Start graduates show in scores on intelligence and socio-emotional tests… |
Sequence 2AUTISM AND MONTESSORI: OLD WISDOM, NEW IDEAS by Toni Flowers Toni Flowers' personal account of her program for autistic… |
Sequence 8Maps of the world and of the United States are of special interest to Arron. One day I gave him a blank paper map of the… |
Sequence 3RUFFING MONTESSORI SCHOOL PEACE CURRICULUM: AN INFORMAL NARRATIVE by John Long In these excerpts from a talk presented at… |
Sequence 4At the same time, there's an emphasis on the children understanding their relationship to society. There is a respect for… |
Sequence 5The ways in which conflicts are resolved within a classroom are impor- tant, too; invariably conflicts come up. It's… |
Sequence 13I remember Margaret Stephenson talking in training about the idea of total reading. She defined it as understanding the… |
Sequence 4work first used this resource to record wars fought during the 1980s on a large world map (3' x 6') which had been… |
Sequence 5"Christmas in the Trenches" (Si Kahn): Students listened to and discussed this folksong which tells of an… |
Sequence 2THE MONTESSORI ERDKINDER: THREE ABSTRACTS The inventive, pioneering spirit of the Montessori movement advances toward an… |
Sequence 6but also because it listed Maria Montessori as one of the four visionary educators of the century whose work was instrumental… |
Sequence 7children from their earliest entrance into the educational community will be accli- mated to the developmental possibilities… |
Sequence 1ABSORBENT MIND UPDATE: REsEARCH SHEDS NEW UGHf ON MONTESSORI THEORY by Annette M. Haines Citing numerous emptrica/ studies… |
Sequence 2center of current theory. This, according to John Chattin-McNichols, author of TbeMontessori Con- troversy (1991), has… |
Sequence 5of supporting self-organization coward even more differentiated structures. (1990, p. 212) Thus, the brain of the young child… |
Sequence 12neuron's axon to another's dendrites. Since there are so many dendrites to choose from, impulses can jump in a… |
Sequence 13Much of the young child's learning is process learning, "how to" walk, talk, grasp an object, build a… |
Sequence 16increasing importance for theories of and research on the genesis of animal and human behavior (Hess, 1973, p. 61).… |
Sequence 20The study of African and American children mentioned earlier (Super, 1991) revealed changes in cognition proceeding at similar… |
Sequence 24Minsky, M. 0985). The Society of Mind. New York: Simon and Schuster. Montanero, S. Q. 0991). Understanding the Human Being:… |
Sequence 4known world, triggering the flight of the imagination. Emotion is evoked by the mention of father and mother; a sense of time… |
Sequence 7as if the thought of man had assumed a marvelous power; the power to create ... " (1965 (19171, p.241). Imagination… |
Sequence 14needs, to understand that individual needs differ and that therefore children receive different treatment based on different… |
Sequence 16References Egan, Kieran (1992). Imagination in Teaching and Learning. Chicago: U of Chicago. Montessori, Maria (1965; first… |
Sequence 9At each of the above stages, children should be encouraged to write from one to several sentences about the topic which are… |
Sequence 2WHOLE LANGUAGE IN nm MONTESSORI CLASSROOM: CONTINUING THE STORY by Margaret Loeffler, Ph.D. In this talk presented to… |
Sequence 4Vygotsky suggests that two developmental pathways grow out of gesture. One leads to pretend play, as we have mentioned, and… |
Sequence 5own observations regarding children in her schools writing words from her dictation or composing thank you notes to important… |
Sequence 9written language posses'sing su6- stantial linguistic knowledge imglicit in their spoken lan- guage. The major task… |
Sequence 12From these wntmgs of contemporary researchers, it is clear that Montessori was onto something when she suggested that writing… |