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Sequence 1THE FARM EXPERIENCE: ITS IMPORTANCE IN A CHILD'S LIFE by Richard Barker Richard Barker's perceptive correlations… |
Sequence 5housing, feeding, reproduction and marketing management of poultry. This effort has immersed Dan, for an extended period, in… |
Sequence 1AN OVERVIEW OF ADOLESCENCE by Phil Gang The Origins of Adolescence Adolescence is viewed today as a period between puberty… |
Sequence 14Montessori explains that, "The teacher must have the greatest respect for the personality of the adolescent,… |
Sequence 8prepared environment throughout all the hours that they spend in the Children's House. Surely we cannot ignore Dr.… |
Sequence 3the widening gulf between affluent and improverished people, and the diversion of societal resources to military expenditures… |
Sequence 2With the move into the low income populations Montesserians will be able to address an oft voiced criticism of our work. Many… |
Sequence 16development, and the disadvantaged child; second, teacher training and teacher and teaching differences; and third, the… |
Sequence 2country's and state's histories. American leaders of the 19th century believed that no nation could survive, let… |
Sequence 1THE NATURE AND THEORY OF SILENCE ACTIVITIES IN THE CHILDREN'S HOUSE by Mary Black Verschuur Ph.D With the incisiveness… |
Sequence 2Culturally too, silence has many interpretations. Within our society silence can be construed as inferring compliance or… |
Sequence 4Montessori did, however, write extensively on the will and the development of will in young children. Later interpreters of… |
Sequence 5ordinary noises consequent thereon. "9 The effort is made by each indi- vidual in the collective to suspend and… |
Sequence 6consciousness of the command he/she has over the control of his/her own body. When this conscious awareness is arrived at and… |
Sequence 7could make the children silent and yet claim freedom. The age-old misconceptions of freedom and discipline surfaced for… |
Sequence 8is expanded and we have the opportunity to reach out towards things which are normally beyond ow· reach, widening our horizons… |
Sequence 9requires participation. And finally, but importantly, silence should only be initiated at normal times when the room and those… |
Sequence 2is to develop the interest of the child, and the pedagogical basis of the whole school is the developmental needs of the child… |
Sequence 1EDITORIAL: AMI MONTESSORI: BACK TO THE FUTURE By David Kahn We are in the turmoil of becoming. And as one undergoes the… |
Sequence 8MATIIEMMICS - Average Percentile Ranks California Achievement Test Grade3 Grade4 Grade6 TotalGrouJJ Montessori Group 58.… |
Sequence 1l\flTCHELLELEMENTARYSCHOOL:A PROFILE SKETCH by Paula Biwer Paula Biwer chroni,cles the cwvelopment of Mitchell Montessori… |
Sequence 1New Montessori Scholarship__; THE ACQUISITION OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE THE NEBULA HYPOTHESIS by Annette Haines ThefoUowi:ng two… |
Sequence 3implementation and teacher training approaches. Lastly, this Journal introduces still another problem of Montessori… |
Sequence 8government should be constituted-as seriously as anyone I have read or met. His many volumes of correspondence are laced with… |
Sequence 3wruch he is already a part. Then, by grasping that his interest in the events of home is akin to their own interests, they can… |
Sequence 6each of us might have something to learn. Often, those who proclaim themselves fit to make ethical pronouncements for the… |
Sequence 3progress had become very impo1tant in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Prior to that time people had thought more or… |
Sequence 6are able to visualize any given lrnowledge. By 18 you have envisioned the whole universe. Then at 18 you decide what your… |
Sequence 2the Urban Education Goals, and the national Education Goals, all as hooks for our own efforts to put children first on the… |
Sequence 8salary and facility improvements; transition projects providing suppor- tive services to elementary school children and their… |
Sequence 3media acclaim, but was subsequently suppressed by American educators until Montessori schools all but disappeared by 1923.… |
Sequence 4tions of the social deficits education ought somehow co repair. Before then, cognitive issues had been in the foreground for a… |
Sequence 7alienated and the poor in our culture. All we can cite as success is the fact that a black middle class has moved out of the… |
Sequence 2The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has undenaken a comprehensive, long-term initiative to… |
Sequence 3• Enables all Americans to panicipate fully and intelligently in making sound personal, social, and political decisions… |
Sequence 4ioral sciences; mathematics, and technology, and the interrelationships among these fields. • Cares about high-quality… |
Sequence 10her clinical experience--if he or she had one, and if it was done well. These are big ifi. The kind of literacy that we are… |
Sequence 5principal. Bue, they always say, regression co the mean-even if this happens, it won't lase. So they did regress co the… |
Sequence 4In a 1.946 lecture in London Montessori said, "Education today needs one reform. If it is to prepare man for the… |
Sequence 2in the United States. With all educational levels currently operating in America, the year 2000 calls for the first… |
Sequence 2MONTESSORI 2000 MISSION T he United States of America is thirsting for bold, new education designs. The exponential knowledge… |
Sequence 4in America and abroad. It was a favorite early childhood curriculum of the "War on Poverty" of the sixties… |
Sequence 31Middle School Community: Montessori 2000 Expected Outcomes Participation in Montessori education is a character-building… |
Sequence 36Middle School Community: Montessori 2000 Expected Outcomes Participation in Montessori education is a character-building… |
Sequence 63in America and abroad. It was a favorite early childhood curriculum of the "War on Poverty" of the sixties… |
Sequence 89MONTESSORI 2000 MISSION T he United States of America is thirsting for bold, new education designs. The exponential knowledge… |
Sequence 92in the United States. With all educational levels currently operating in America, the year 2000 calls for the first… |
Sequence 3educationalese all have a purpose. But in my estimation they represent exercises in minutiae-the kind of minutiae that… |
Sequence 17teachers to work with administrators on a plan for released time distribution and an in-service schedule for the system.… |
Sequence 7children from their earliest entrance into the educational community will be accli- mated to the developmental possibilities… |
Sequence 7of my ·career was washing dishes with Bernard Shaw after a very large social gathering. Bernard Shaw's share of the… |
Sequence 8kitchen. Adding section by section, piece by piece, they discovered the style pattern and saw that the repeats in Malory are… |
Sequence 13English. So, English literature dropped. When you had a German-speaking ruler and a German-speaking court, it affected what… |
Sequence 15Some of the Native American tales preserve the original animal marriage, and some of the Japanese do. There is nothing… |
Sequence 2Schools cannot start too early to encourage the refinement of taste in children, to present for their learning the fine… |
Sequence 4eve'fythlng' turns on the na- ture of the habits, Including ha&its of language, we Jorm by accident and… |
Sequence 1Plln.osoPHY AND PRAcnCE: PRIMARY CONSIDERATIONS FOR TIIE IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ALL-DAY MONI'ESSORI PROGRAM Mary B.… |
Sequence 5reversal in attitude of the children affected by the response to stimuli of the environment including the apparatus and the… |
Sequence 17servation and discovery, freedom and discipline. These are not things which are switched off and on for certain periods… |
Sequence 1THE AooLESCENT AND THE FUit.JRE by Margaret E. Stephenson Miss Stephenson presents adolescence in a definitive theorectl… |
Sequence 9The child still needs a prepared environment for his work and activities. Dr. Montessori warns us: "Education between… |
Sequence 19Early Years of Exploration and Settlement in America I. Ideas to Investigate for Reports a. Europeans who reached North… |
Sequence 32. To enable the students to trace their own ethnicity and ancestry and to grow in appreciation for the uniqueness and… |
Sequence 12the millennia, centuries, half-centuries, and even decades. We can also see the sequence of these frameworks. Second, there is… |
Sequence 5opment guarantees the unfolding of basic "experience expectant" systems. Refinements of language, such as… |
Sequence 15We must have a conversation that stretches out across this nation and creates an advocacy for children that rejects all nay-… |
Sequence 7teaching, which are now standard fixtures in the early education scene in America. Dr. Montessori was strongly influenced by… |
Sequence 8the teacher must awaken the spirit of the child. They considered the moral preparation of the teacher to be the key to… |
Sequence 8organization-as well as with managing their behavior. It is more sur- prising to discover, in the writings of Russian… |
Sequence 27children will want to send their work out for publication. In our local newspaper, The St. Paul Pioneer Press, a segment of… |
Sequence 18a need for whole men. Every side of the human personality must function. A young person may have special aptitudes in some… |
Sequence 22a need for whole men. Every side of the human personality must function. A young person may have special aptitudes in some… |
Sequence 85children will want to send their work out for publication. In our local newspaper, The St. Paul Pioneer Press, a segment of… |
Sequence 146organization-as well as with managing their behavior. It is more sur- prising to discover, in the writings of Russian… |
Sequence 1LINKING THE FAMILY AND THE SCHOOL: THE IMPORTANCE OF p ARENTAL CHOICE IN ADMISSIONS by Sharon L. Dubble, PhD The Montessori… |
Sequence 14Assessment (1992, p. 7), and the future of testing in America depends on issues of equity and the improvement of opportunities… |
Sequence 2these "deficient" children, in 1907 she took her new teaching prin- ciples to "normal"… |
Sequence 12The idea Montessori is trying to get across is something so novel, so stupendous, that-as she herself says-she really needs a… |
Sequence 3another of a Euro-American provincialism, as though a majority of the world's population and their historical… |
Sequence 4that we are now faced with a crisis of global proportions. This situation takes the form of a crisis in energy, food, ecology… |
Sequence 9the abilities of children throughout the world. As early as 1910, she resigned her lectureship at the University of Rome,… |
Sequence 3The first reason has to do with scholarship based on the old model. Consider the recent book The Bell Curve (Herrnstein &… |
Sequence 2birth to 3 years of age, the child from 3 to 6 years, the child from 6 to 12, concerns a much more detailed look at individual… |
Sequence 8Montessori triangle? Surely the adult in the environment is indispens- able at any time of the day, and especially when the… |
Sequence 1MONTESSORI: A CARING PEDAGOGY by Elizabeth Hall In this Montessori manifesto of caring, Ms. Hall puts forward the impor-… |
Sequence 1EDITORIAL: p ATHWAYS TO MATURITY by David Kahn As the new year is underway and we approach the twenty-first century with… |
Sequence 13Practical Life One of the guide's greatest resources in offering the more restless and less easily focused child deeply… |
Sequence 17Children's House, except more loquaciously. Some children need more repetition, and all the children seem to enjoy the… |
Sequence 3To-day, however, I wish to speak of the adult and of man's psychological structure, as the child has revealed it to us.… |
Sequence 18that belief is there, all rewards and punishments could disappear and new ones would pop up like new Kleenexes in the box. I,… |
Sequence 15needs of each are different, it causes conflict and very often the needs of the adults will take precedence over the needs of… |
Sequence 20children, especially in the Children's House, we often look to the immediate situation at hand and try to figure out what… |
Sequence 25because an inner need or directive of the child is not being met. Balancing of freedom and discipline (or responsibility) is… |
Sequence 16digms of exclusion-not unlike modern America. The Hellenistic period is a wide-open period similar to our own, where money… |
Sequence 17to you is that the traditional paradigm of explaining Western culture to students, that is, the multicultural approach, I find… |
Sequence 19most ridiculed people in Greek literature because they smell, they're cranky, they have coarse language. But all… |
Sequence 21quite accurate analysis. I think we all have to realize that farms like mine are being destroyed in California. All of my… |
Sequence 17who is still farming, they eventually have to come to you to ship their fruit back east and you can charge them at each stage… |
Sequence 18have to go down to Chile to find that. The answer, then, that I am suggesting is again the material appetite-the reason why… |
Sequence 33The implicit value of farming is self- sufficiency, not "cash cropping: The value of giving soltlething back to the… |