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Sequence 8A final aspect which deserves mention is the view of the child's potential for development taken by Montessori. In many… |
Sequence 17Boehnlein, Mary. (1984). A study of college/uruversity accredited Montessori teacher training programs. NAMTA Quarterly, 9, 49… |
Sequence 18McCormick, C. & Schnobich, J. (1969). IES Arrow-Dot performance in two Montessori preschools. Perceptual Motor Skills… |
Sequence 1ONE WORLD, ONE DRUM by Tom Sipes My first teaching assignment was in a Catholic seminary in East Africa, in the town of… |
Sequence 2Dwye1·: Well, yes of course it does relate to being able to decode; some call that reading, although it is only a small part… |
Sequence 5misunderstood by non-professionals who view evolution as a simple ladder of progress, and therefore expect a linear array of… |
Sequence 22children's behavior and less on teacher's behavior. They suggested that the particular Montessori teaching… |
Sequence 3Gitter, Lena L. (1968). Interpretation and Summary of Montessori Modulaties. ~ American Mon- tea,ori Society Bulletin, 1(4), 1… |
Sequence 4CHAPTER6 RESEARCH OF COGNITIVE/ INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT Introduction One of the earliest studies of intellectual… |
Sequence 3example, discusses the propensity of the four year old to view a picture as a static picture. The child cannot make inferences… |
Sequence 5Table 2 Summary of Findings: Do Low Socioeconomic Children Benefit from Less Than Three Years of Preschool? YES NON-… |
Sequence 1The Humanities MONTESSORI: THE HUMANITIES CONNECTION Minneapolis, March 2, 3, 4, 1989 by David Kahn Minneapolis marks a… |
Sequence 3The Montessorian, in reading Socrates' Theaet,et:us, may begin to describe the Montessori vision with new vocabulary and… |
Sequence 2society. "Rituals are considered to represent only a negative dead- weight from the past." Margaret Mead… |
Sequence 3implementation and teacher training approaches. Lastly, this Journal introduces still another problem of Montessori… |
Sequence 14passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it." She was deceived by very little; she was… |
Sequence 1Research PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS OF A MONTESSORI SCHOOL IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR by Tim Duax Dr.… |
Sequence 3the widest range of principles and doctrines put forth by various psychologists and educators. Every philosophical education… |
Sequence 8will be able to connect information to what is uniquely human, reconcil- ing cultural differences with what is universal. The… |
Sequence 4personal behavior decisions are social decisions. There is an adult who helps us come to generous understanding, not by… |
Sequence 9behavior by males is absolutely unknown in the animal kingdom except in chimps and humans. So if one is interested in the… |
Sequence 4builds from the concrete to the abstract. Suzuki method teachers paral- lel this approach in their ordering of the pieces… |
Sequence 2"soup" to a "salad bowl" concept in which each ingredient maintains its separate flavor,… |
Sequence 6can see it - North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia." As she named the continents her hand… |
Sequence 4mth regard w hominid evolution, apparently tlie sequential lineage of hominids i.s cmnpletely wrong; f<YUr very… |
Sequence 1mth regard w hominid evolution, apparently tlie sequential lineage of hominids i.s cmnpletely wrong; f<YUr very… |
Sequence 7the theory of the Montessori method, and practical instruction in the technique of the method. The classes last for six months… |
Sequence 6Last, the hand should not be forgotten or banished when the intel- ligence starts building its very own construction - culture… |
Sequence 4where he sees only the sky. This is the difference between Montessori and normal education. I don't think Montessori will… |
Sequence 7with Montessori. As you made what Montessori calls the levels of ascent as you go and work through the years, what discovery… |
Sequence 2the common experience for fashioning questions in the right way to reveal what they know, rather than just revealing… |
Sequence 10of President Wilson. Montessori lectured in cities in South America, and, of course, conducted many courses in India during… |
Sequence 8new point of view, he can easily verify it by observing his own child. As Csikszentmihalyi points out, "The rapt c.… |
Sequence 19The leader sets che paccern by scimulacing discussion, encouraging dialogue, and opening his or her own actions and decisions… |
Sequence 5... he showed me a picture of the night sky taken with the big telescope. There were tens of thousands of stars and… |
Sequence 3RUFFING MONTESSORI SCHOOL PEACE CURRICULUM: AN INFORMAL NARRATIVE by John Long In these excerpts from a talk presented at… |
Sequence 5The ways in which conflicts are resolved within a classroom are impor- tant, too; invariably conflicts come up. It's… |
Sequence 1ABSORBENT MIND UPDATE: REsEARCH SHEDS NEW UGHf ON MONTESSORI THEORY by Annette M. Haines Citing numerous emptrica/ studies… |
Sequence 11have been traced, and seventeen Robin Hoods. This snowballing happens because there are so few names. Even in England-… |
Sequence 1TIME FOR SIXES AND SEVENS by Rilla Spellman Startingfrom an analytical understanding of the developmental process that takes… |
Sequence 17servation and discovery, freedom and discipline. These are not things which are switched off and on for certain periods… |
Sequence 12being? What makes a culture a culture? What makes a story a story? The philosophical question can provide a basis for an… |
Sequence 11An exceptional example of vertical history was the Columbus Quincentennary Exhibit at the National Gallery of Art nearly two… |
Sequence 6Alexander the Great, another Greek, was also a great traveller, founding Alexandria in Egypt, and many other towns named… |
Sequence 2People came from the ends of the earth to live in Alexandria. Everyone entered through the Gate of the Sun and left through… |
Sequence 11unpaid, or at best low paid, productive activities are systematically exploited. As the United Nations State of the World… |
Sequence 1THE ECOLOGY OF TIIE MIND by Luciano Mazzetti The title of this lecture, "The Ecology of the Mind," comes… |
Sequence 10were in a Catholic country, so it can be ascribed to the Catholic religion. But it happens in India, it happens in Africa, it… |
Sequence 17• choose well; need normalized core group • limited to 15% of class • limited to 20% of class • only after extensive… |
Sequence 11Children can also keep an alphabetically filed dictionary of their known words on index cards in a small file box. They can… |
Sequence 31sciousness, activate their personal schema. Have you ever been taken somewhere you didn't want to go? (Gilly is being… |
Sequence 1In 1938, with the help of friends in India, she and her family managed to leave Austria before the War. She was to spend nine… |
Sequence 16In 1938, with the help of friends in India, she and her family managed to leave Austria before the War. She was to spend nine… |
Sequence 81sciousness, activate their personal schema. Have you ever been taken somewhere you didn't want to go? (Gilly is being… |
Sequence 119Children can also keep an alphabetically filed dictionary of their known words on index cards in a small file box. They can… |
Sequence 7faculty without increasing the number of students. I'm sure there are creative solutions which could reduce the number of… |
Sequence 2the Montessori educational community, yet he made most of his discov- eries in his own classroom working with a group of… |
Sequence 1MONTESSORI AND ASSESSMENT: SOME ISSUES OF ASSESSMENT AND CURRICULUM REFORM by Annette M. Haines INTRODUCTION This study… |
Sequence 8to make it all. And so I think that the focus ... is tohelp,asmuch as possible, as quickly as possible, and as early as can be… |
Sequence 3viewed her educational principles from the very start as anything less than a contribution to the whole planet. Accordingly,… |
Sequence 2The thought of so condemning greed and ambition seems alien for a society apparently rooted in greed and ambition, although… |
Sequence 3another of a Euro-American provincialism, as though a majority of the world's population and their historical… |
Sequence 7The materials for written language first introduce the child to the marvelous twenty- six letters of the alphabet and their… |
Sequence 6Because parents are treated as col- laborators in Montessori, they are often invited into the classroom to share and… |
Sequence 2THE MATHEMATICAL INTELLIGENCE SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF THE MONTESSORI THEORY OF THE HUMAN TENDENCIES Kay M. Baker Dr. Baker… |
Sequence 1MAINTAINING THE MONTESSORI METAPHOR: WHAT EVERY CHILD WANTS AND NEEDS by Asa G. Hilliard In straightfonvard terms, Dr.… |
Sequence 17and needs, then you have to create the environment. Even if it's not necessary to get a job at IBM, that's okay; if… |
Sequence 1FOREWORD: FINDING FLOW IN MONTESSORI Imagine a river in time, a time span of one hundred years. On the one side there is… |
Sequence 3the trap-and when I say we, I mean psychologists who are studying children and learning-we fell into the trap of using the… |
Sequence 23probably do it quite well, from what I can see, and that's not a problem in your type of schooling. The other thing to… |
Sequence 33couple of different angles, one being parent education-that it's new language and a new way to talk about their child,… |
Sequence 21Q: Do you think it's actually possible to directly teach people to make the optimum choice when their skill levels and… |
Sequence 16QUESTIONS ANO ANSWERS Q: As Montessorians, how can we can get our work selected by the culture? A: Obviously, if I had a… |
Sequence 30are male characteristics. Creative men, on the other hand, besides being masculine, also have sensitivity, openness, empathy,… |
Sequence 52other. You need the autonomy, but, equally important, you need the community." And especially with young children,… |
Sequence 5the same elements that you see in Montessori and Sylvia Ashton Warner. For example, in all of these approaches is a deep… |
Sequence 8requires it; it requires that we dialogue. If you dialogue, you've got to be culturally salient. I think you will hear in… |
Sequence 16fixed in your mind. What is your place in the cosmos? What is the child's place in the cosmos? What is our purpose on the… |
Sequence 17to you is that the traditional paradigm of explaining Western culture to students, that is, the multicultural approach, I find… |
Sequence 20own culture. We're better people than that"-not to say, "Oh, don't do that. We've got to go… |
Sequence 4which evolves on its own terms. Like the child, as human culture grows with the passage of time, it becomes more conscious of… |
Sequence 1PAST, PRESENT, AND POSSIBLE: A MONTESSORI GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE by Muriel Dwyer Muriel Dwyer, whose sense of mission and single… |
Sequence 3The simplicity of his early years and his life with Dr. Montessori gave him a rare quality: the ability to mix and be"… |
Sequence 2THE INTEGRATION OF CULTURES: THE MONTESSORI CONTRIBUTION by Winfried Bohm translated by Devan Barker In this masterful… |
Sequence 1MONTESSORI IN SOUTH AFRICA: THE CHALLENGE, THE DREAM, AND THE PROMISE by Orcillia Oppenheimer The African challenge is… |
Sequence 2South Africa is the southern tip of the African continent. A country of contrasts-from the trees of the dinosaurs to the… |
Sequence 3TURMOIL Reality of Turmoil The argument whether the Sturm und Orang (storm and stress) of the teenage years is a natural and… |
Sequence 17A further argument for emphasizing local environmental research by children is that genuine ecological understanding involves… |
Sequence 25Orr, D. W. Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World. Albany: SUNY, 1992. Piaget,J. TheGtild… |
Sequence 9love." "With eternal love I love you" say the prophets of Israel (Isaiah 54:8,Jeremiah31:3). &… |
Sequence 2Our mother, 1 five years in America and fresh to the ways of Ameri- can Catholicism, was not daunted by being a woman. A lay… |
Sequence 1COSMOS, HISTORY, AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT by Gerard Leonard A rare weave of classroom examples, literary allusions, and… |
Sequence 4In a. very real sense the spiritual dimension permeated all of Montessori's work. I think that she never wrote a book… |
Sequence 8use real dishes and cloth towels rather than plastic and Styrofoam; we implement Cosmic Education in the elementary years; we… |
Sequence 9When they are in high school, are former Montessori students reaching out to others? Are they volunteer tutors? Are they… |
Sequence 13Whenever possible, music and poetry may be related to things children say. For example, once at the beginning of June, three… |
Sequence 6in the year 1000, we find a series of settlements around the planet with a smaller number of hunter-gatherer bands that are… |
Sequence 8father, space pilot, dog, when one does not yet know what it means to be one's self? Again, as Montessori is based on… |
Sequence 9furnish examples of these. "Excuse me," said a child to a visitor commenting in a classroom that this was… |
Sequence 15The child's mind between three and six can not only see by intelligence the relations between things, but it has the… |