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Sequence 1INTRODUCING OUR BOOK: THE DAYCARE DECISION by William and Wendy Dreskin The Day Care Deciswn with an introduction by Burton… |
Sequence 1MONTESSORI, POVERTY, AND THE SPECIAL CHILD by Jon R. Osterkorn, Ph.D. With wit and substance, Dr. Osterkorn exposes the… |
Sequence 9The importance of language was always in our thoughts. The majority of the children spoke no English, and there were seven… |
Sequence 2recommend it to the school and community on the Pine Ridge Reser- vation, and even to the state of South Dakota. The location… |
Sequence 8accelerated as a consequence of using the Montessori materials. Subjects were in their second year in three different… |
Sequence 2credits include the percussion soundtrack to the movie Apocalypse Now and percussion consultant to the Smithsonian Institution… |
Sequence 5A Variety of Interesting Readers for Primary and Early Elementary I Can Read Se1'ies: Harper & Row, New York.… |
Sequence 2Culturally too, silence has many interpretations. Within our society silence can be construed as inferring compliance or… |
Sequence 3included as a mandatory part of our school curricula. On the other hand, Konstantil explained, "Here we give the… |
Sequence 1EDITORIAL: AMI MONTESSORI: BACK TO THE FUTURE By David Kahn We are in the turmoil of becoming. And as one undergoes the… |
Sequence 1COSMIC EDUCATION: SOWING LIFE, NOT THEORIES by David Kahn This is an attempt to clarify the role of Cosmic Education in… |
Sequence 2Jensen, J. & Kohlberg, L. (1966). Report of a ,-e,earch and denwnatrotion proj«t f01' culturolly duadvantaged… |
Sequence 4CHAPTER4 OTHER STUDIES OF CHILDREN OF LOW SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS The following studies show the great variety of attempts to… |
Sequence 5minutes of testing each month. Results showed that the cultural model consistently outperformed the Montessori model and the… |
Sequence 6The research took place in the Clavis Montessori Head Start centers staffed by Montessori teachers in Fullerton and Costa Mesa… |
Sequence 7provided sensitive guidance. She continued to add to the environment and provided materials which children could independently… |
Sequence 1THE MAINSTREAMING OF MONTESSORI IN AMERICA by David Kahn, Editor On April 17, 1989 Newsweek published a cover story entitled… |
Sequence 1Features WHAT'S WRONG WITH MY CLASS? by Polli Soholt Polli Scholt provides the primary teacher with practical… |
Sequence 1GENEROUS UNDERSTANDING: KNOWING OURSELVES AND EACH OTHER by Edwin Delattre Delattre's wide range of human experience,… |
Sequence 10complex civilizations that the Mexican philosopher and educator Jose Vasconcelos dubbed them "the cosmic race.&… |
Sequence 1MONTESSORI EDUCATION AND CHILDREN PLACED AT RISK OF SCHOOL FAILURE by Christopher Harris Mr. Harris' short but… |
Sequence 1CONSTRUCTING THE EQUILATERAL TRIANGLE: PARENTS, TEACHERS, AND CHILDREN by Antonia Lopez Th:is presenwt:ion on the school-… |
Sequence 2participating in job training programs. A large number of our children come from homes where one or more adults abuse drugs or… |
Sequence 3These families all have something in common - they are outside of the mainstream of their communities and have little, if any… |
Sequence 3• Thirteen million children in this country - one in five - live in poverty. (Almost one in four African American children are… |
Sequence 6• Department of Education • Department of Employment Services of the Cabinet for Human Resources (CHR) • Dep~ment for Health… |
Sequence 7• Children Now • California Tomorrow (Immigration law group) • Oakland Urban Strategies Council • Children's Lobby •… |
Sequence 6ethnic groups struggling for popular control over the schools. In the midst of ugly strike and turmoil, there appeared quiet… |
Sequence 3understood better through discussions of bonding, and attachment, and so forth. And so they began to see that here was another… |
Sequence 11we can teach them something. The whole parent issue is tied up because if we really care about parents, then we're going… |
Sequence 2strides they had touched che outer limits of che universe, they painted their timdines, collected fossils and rocks of… |
Sequence 3To use more familiar language, the divine arts are theology and related studies. The liberal arts (traditionally classified as… |
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 12This will always stick in my mind: two men, talking about two black, disabled soldiers who had not been shot by the enemy but… |
Sequence 8hadn't got. So he retired and went back to Germany. That is the scale. Of course, it is very, very important from a… |
Sequence 8Around six, the child un- dergoes a greattransfor- mation. He is now no longer satisfied with the society of his family and… |
Sequence 2Existing Schools BuffaJo Dallas-Ft. Worth Minneapolis (Bennett Parkj /Daggettj !Sewardf Years In Operation or Projected… |
Sequence 2Reading, seminars, field experiences, journaling, interviewing, and expository and creative writing are integrated into this… |
Sequence 17disturbing the other's sleep and, more importanl, how to comfort each other when one awoke in the middle of the night out… |
Sequence 1Timeline of Montessori Adolescent Programs 1900 1910 1907: Casadei Bambini founded In Rome 1920 1930 early 1930s: first… |
Sequence 5Where are they located? One school is in Canada, one in Mexico, and 31 in the United States. Nine schools are east of the… |
Sequence 1Rist, R. (1970). Social class and teacher expectations: The self- fulfilling prophecy in ghetto education. Harvard Educational… |
Sequence 19Rist, R. (1970). Social class and teacher expectations: The self- fulfilling prophecy in ghetto education. Harvard Educational… |
Sequence 2for the most part, dependent upon the opinions and decisions of teachers and school administrators in determining the… |
Sequence 1GROUNDS FOR CHANGE: LEARNING THROUGH LANDSCAPES IN BRITAIN by Bill Lucas There are more than 30,000 schools in Britain.… |
Sequence 2need to return to Montessori's writing-particularly From Childhood to Adolescence and Education and Peace. But it was… |
Sequence 10Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education. Karnes, M. et al. (1978). Immediate,… |
Sequence 1MARIA MONTESSORI AND THE "GLASS HOUSE" by Alan Bonsteel, MD Dr. Bonstee/' s article not only conveys… |
Sequence 5and Montessori teaching in the U.S. fell on hard times. Some of the new "Montessori" schools in the U.S.… |
Sequence 1THE ORGANIZATION OF INTELLECTUAL WORK IN SCHOOL by Maria Montessori, MD Very closely related to the seminal writings o/The… |
Sequence 1THE MOTHER AND THE CHILD by Maria Montessori, MD This incredibly forceful article looks at the need for attention not only to… |
Sequence 1EDUCATION IN RELATION TO THE IMAGINATION OF THE LITTLE CHILD by Maria Montessori, MD Touching on the significance of… |
Sequence 13Let's take a brief look at someone else. Marian Dobbert and Betty Cooke (1987) at the University of Minnesota have taken… |
Sequence 17parison with this all-too-frequent condition, the total involvement of flow is experienced as rewarding. Our studies over the… |
Sequence 19THE CONSEQUENCES OF FLOW There are many reasons why experiencing flow is beneficial. Per- haps the most important is also the… |
Sequence 1THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION: A MODEL FOR EDUCATIONAL CHANGE by Rexford Brown Dr. Brown first highlights the ways in which a… |
Sequence 3designed to meet new needs, it becomes increasingly isolated from its clients or customers. Broken into tiny subunits where… |
Sequence 8Unfortunately, there are big differences in kids in terms of how autotelic they are. We have followed, for instance, just… |
Sequence 17attempt to converse with him on an adult-to-adult level, rather than as a child to a parent. On the flip side, I hold dear… |
Sequence 8extrasomatically, that is, outside the body. So what does it mean? Well, you can think of memes as being any kind of… |
Sequence 17Q: How do we make what we have to offer as teachers or as parents valued? As Montessori teachers or as Montessorians, how do… |
Sequence 6exploitation somewhat irrelevant. If it costs just $3 to rent a Pocahontas video, do you really care if Michael Eisner made $… |
Sequence 7What happened? What made this unique culture? I've argued, and I think I can make the argument very briefly this morning… |
Sequence 10want to use that word superiority, but Greek military prowess surely is a sign of cultural dynamism. In addition, diversified… |
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 2And I said, "What do you mean?" And he said, "Well, you've got this Wal-Mart." Well… |
Sequence 5var, and you mix the two and combine the best of human and natural possibilities. I'll give you an example of what I… |
Sequence 11After he died, I thought, "Well, you can fumigate. That will kill the gumnosis. You can get a new root stock. That… |
Sequence 15great co-ops: Sun-Maid raisin growers is a good example, though it is a cooperative that I think many years ago sold out its… |
Sequence 16the spectrum. On the small end-20- and 30- and 40-acre farms-we see a person who inherits a farm and finds out that if raisins… |
Sequence 5The adolescent is a social embryo, so your prepared environ• ment must be what society is all about, in the context of the… |
Sequence 21Anyone planning to involve children in a community participation project should be prepared to answer such questions as… |
Sequence 1MARIA MONTESSORI: A LEARNER TAUGHT BY CHILDREN by Robert G. Buckenmeyer In 1915, Maria Montessori traveled to San Francisco… |
Sequence 2phenomenon have more disas- trous effects than in education. Teachers have the best inten- tions, but best intentions kill… |
Sequence 10birth of new life. "The personality of the mother," she observes, "is characterized by this: with… |
Sequence 1SCIENCE AND FAITH: MARIA MONTESSORI' S PRINCIPLES OF EDUCATION by Robert G. Buckenmeyer Dr. Buckenmeyer' sarray of… |
Sequence 2Psychologists, on the other hand, were traditionally foot-bound, over- burdened with statistical evidence, viewing "… |
Sequence 3the child from scholastic slavery nor, even more, from annoy- ing results. The same Froebe I, whose education of children was… |
Sequence 7nation, she rejects Froebel's way of doing so on the basis of fantasy because, as she says, it forces the child to &… |
Sequence 11Kingdom of Heaven." Now let us picture among those to whom these words were spoken, an ardent, worshipping soul, who… |
Sequence 13the teacher and the scientist an Apostolic spirit. This Apostolic spirit sees not only the spirit of study about the child but… |
Sequence 14life, the first flowers of affection, of gentleness, of spontaneous love for righteousness which perfume the souls of such… |
Sequence 15in the child an epiphany of human nature, a Jerusalem as a city of God, as she states in the introduction to Education for a… |
Sequence 16this Ezekielian, Christlike, and" Apostolic" spirit while teaching chil- dren. 4 This, of course, means that… |
Sequence 17not yet fully formed: he has not yet gathered about him the last folds of his robe of flesh and of love which is made up of… |
Sequence 6Listening to poetry is art unto itself. Like listening to jazz or opera, it involves both a disciplined listening and a deep… |
Sequence 5Though the discovery of cosmic and terrestrial evolution has involved humans from a diversity of cultural backgrounds and can… |
Sequence 4This early discovery has continued to be a hallmark of the Montessori approach to child development. Dr. Montessori was… |
Sequence 8In 1915, Dr. Montessori traveled to California to attend the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. She… |
Sequence 11She "jumped off" into new territory without having a plan in place-and let her commitment to fighting for… |
Sequence 3And the adult human, says Bronowski, in The Ascent of Man, is "a singular creature. He has a set of gifts that make… |
Sequence 5It was Maria Montessori' s insight that the child had within an "inner teacher" that dictated a &… |
Sequence 9Some of you may remember those early days of WM! when the course and office were at 3000 Connecticut Avenue,opposite the Zoo… |
Sequence 10something like $3,000 between them that year. Later, in her own center in California, Stela helped to train as trainers such… |
Sequence 3First a little political and geographical orientation: Romania is an Eastern European country. It is surrounded by the Black… |
Sequence 176First a little political and geographical orientation: Romania is an Eastern European country. It is surrounded by the Black… |
Sequence 183something like $3,000 between them that year. Later, in her own center in California, Stela helped to train as trainers such… |
Sequence 184Some of you may remember those early days of WM! when the course and office were at 3000 Connecticut Avenue,opposite the Zoo… |