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Sequence 1MONTESSORI, POVERTY, AND THE SPECIAL CHILD by Jon R. Osterkorn, Ph.D. With wit and substance, Dr. Osterkorn exposes the… |
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 4D(iys of U1e Mammoth Hunters, by Mary Elting and Franklin Folsom, and If Yo1.i Grew Up With Ge&rge Wash·ington by Ruth… |
Sequence 1ON BUBBLES AND SUCH by C. A. Claremont Dr. Clarernont's ability to personify aspects of physics, to isolate the… |
Sequence 1THE KODAIKANAL EXPERIENCE Kahn-Montessori Interveiw From late 1942 to March, 1944, Maria Montessori was interned against her… |
Sequence 2easy for him to make the bed each morning. A small Pinocchio hat rack held his pajamas and his outdoor coat. A large piece 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 3implementation and teacher training approaches. Lastly, this Journal introduces still another problem of Montessori… |
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 10history as (long after) bipedalism, and probably after tool use and enlargement of the brain, we had many different forms of… |
Sequence 7education to the sixth year, he formulates certain principles for the education of children at home by the mothers who ought… |
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 1ALBER!' M. JOOSTEN - A BIOGRAPHY Albert M. Joosten was born in the Nether lands on November 21, 1914. His formal… |
Sequence 5director (and occupied this charge until his deathi Branches are func- tioning in many European, Asian, and American countries… |
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 4teach students about the politics, sociology, and economics of the revolution- ary world changes that we' re living… |
Sequence 10can't that runle get there if he has to keep going another half? I have heard kids say there has to be something wrong… |
Sequence 6which is trying to become a self-sustaining community in relationship with the plants, the animals, the landscape, the humans… |
Sequence 8that it's satisfying. One of the difficulties with this and with fu.rms is that we have never developed a village culture… |
Sequence 6sicy of Rome Medical School. There are many stories of the "petty persecu- cions" she endured with good… |
Sequence 9process for the spirit of the child. The words of'Abdu'I-Baha come co mind in this regard: Therefore must th.e… |
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 4important way that we can help is to listen intently when the child tries to communicate thereby conveying the message that… |
Sequence 4perspective, education becomes a process of assisting human develop- ment, working coward full and whole construction. le… |
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 9Mover, itself unmoved. This Mover he called God. Aristotle's God was not the sort of being one would be inclined to… |
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 9at you!te show- • fs you're showing the child with this work is not only the ability to parse-to recognize the parts… |
Sequence 3exciting, I hearli/y recommend the following books to aid you in your studies: Baughman, Emest(1966). A TypeandMotif-Jnde.… |
Sequence 12danced. That is the one group of stories in which you should change your normal voice; tell them quickly and keep the rhythm.… |
Sequence 15Some of the Native American tales preserve the original animal marriage, and some of the Japanese do. There is nothing… |
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 3it probably is not necessary to show the whole process. For example, a Bring Me game usually assumes that the children can… |
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 1THE ECOLOGY OF TIIE MIND by Luciano Mazzetti The title of this lecture, "The Ecology of the Mind," comes… |
Sequence 17• choose well; need normalized core group • limited to 15% of class • limited to 20% of class • only after extensive… |
Sequence 8organization-as well as with managing their behavior. It is more sur- prising to discover, in the writings of Russian… |
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 146organization-as well as with managing their behavior. It is more sur- prising to discover, in the writings of Russian… |
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 153. Measuring the distance the cork was propelled is always popular. Observers should be assured that they will all have an… |
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 2these "deficient" children, in 1907 she took her new teaching prin- ciples to "normal"… |
Sequence 4lecture extensively to wider audiences, including a combined session of the 53rd annual convention of the National Education… |
Sequence 5and Montessori teaching in the U.S. fell on hard times. Some of the new "Montessori" schools in the U.S.… |
Sequence 2asserted without hesitation that no research study of peace even ofa rudimentary character has been undertaken. Stranger… |
Sequence 4This does not mean that there can be no such thing as a just war. No one could doubt that-things being as they were in Europe… |
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 7was a cognitive psychologist he was a biologist, so maybe there's something about watching growing things that makes you… |
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 7Decision-maki_ng by the students is important. Under the guid- ance of the resident adults, they decide what to plant, which… |
Sequence 8Greek, ·French, Latin, science, history. High school ends with the toughest exam in one's life. Without passing it, one… |
Sequence 33In The Absorbent Mind, Montessori writes, "The child is endowed with unknown powers which can guide us to a radiant… |
Sequence 23The design of seating and gathering areas can add playfulness to an educational site, creating an inviting, whimsical… |
Sequence 25chemicals is obviously an attempt to recapture some of the qualities of optimal experience by artificial means. Alcohol,… |
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 7But before we do that, let me talk a little bit about what these activities are like. After I did these original interviews,… |
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 15religion, etc. So the question is, to what extent is the field in your organization open to change? Sometimes a discipline or… |
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 24As they grew up in adolescence, almost all of these people felt, of course, marginal, because they did not conform to the… |
Sequence 30are male characteristics. Creative men, on the other hand, besides being masculine, also have sensitivity, openness, empathy,… |
Sequence 13the children applaud-they seem to be so delighted with this period of silence they impose on themselves. MUTUAL Am AND… |