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Sequence 6Orthodox: A Study to Determine the Relative Improvement of the Preschool Child with Brain Damage Trained By One of Two Meth-… |
Sequence 2With the move into the low income populations Montesserians will be able to address an oft voiced criticism of our work. Many… |
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 8"Found Sheep," which is not scolded by the Good Shepherd but car- ried happily on his shoulders. With great… |
Sequence 2help her adapt to the conditions of the present. 1n describing a particu- lar civilization or culture, she understood well… |
Sequence 86 Montessori, Bducationfor a New World, 16•17. 7 Montessori, Rcamstn«:tion in EducnLum, 6. 8 Paulo Freire, Pedagogy qf the… |
Sequence 11fifteen years earlier, as King knew, when Henry David Thoreau was in jail for. refusing to pay a poll tax because he believed… |
Sequence 7We begin, as always, with the preparation of the adults: by deepening our cross-cultural perspective we can expand our… |
Sequence 8looking at him that he's not going to make it." This child had an excellent grasp of country life and a good… |
Sequence 12developmental bilingualism, community outreach, and neighborhood redevelopment. In Mexico, Montessori environments have been… |
Sequence 2third of all American children. Several states already have school populations where minority children are in the majority.… |
Sequence 7First A.M.I. Assistants to Infancy Course - Rome Assistants to Infancy staff: Silvana Montanaro, Director of Training, Gianna… |
Sequence 2At the birth to three level the Montessori movement has years of experience to draw from though not experience in our own… |
Sequence 2participating in job training programs. A large number of our children come from homes where one or more adults abuse drugs or… |
Sequence 1DISCOVERY OF THE CHILD by HiJdegard Solzbacher D,: Montessori, who was a scientist and physician and not a trained educa-… |
Sequence 2Don't call it Montessori. If it works along Montessori lines, that is good. But there is no Montessori method for the… |
Sequence 1THE IMPORTANCE OF MONTESSORI 2000 New American Schools Development Corporation (NASDC) was founded in 199 l by Lamar… |
Sequence 2MONTESSORI 2000 MISSION T he United States of America is thirsting for bold, new education designs. The exponential knowledge… |
Sequence 89MONTESSORI 2000 MISSION T he United States of America is thirsting for bold, new education designs. The exponential knowledge… |
Sequence 93THE IMPORTANCE OF MONTESSORI 2000 New American Schools Development Corporation (NASDC) was founded in 199 l by Lamar… |
Sequence 1EDITORIAL REINVENTING MONTESSORI: PERILS AND POSSIBILITIES by David Kahn To what degree is the fundamental test of… |
Sequence 2WHOLE LANGUAGE IN nm MONTESSORI CLASSROOM: CONTINUING THE STORY by Margaret Loeffler, Ph.D. In this talk presented to… |
Sequence 3Montessori talked a good deal about the "spiritual preparation" of the teacher(1936, pp. 115-123), and it… |
Sequence 183. Economic Development-How have societies organized themselves economically? What conditions have caused changes in the ways… |
Sequence 15Zigler, PhD, Sterling Psychology Professor at Yale University and one of the founders of Head Start. This conference will… |
Sequence 1THE DEVELOPMENTAL CRISES OF THE FIRST THREE YEARS by Silvana Quattrocchi Montanaro, M.D. Introduction In our growth… |
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 50Among the Poor (10) • adopt a needy family • deli,·er ChrisLmas food baskeLS, serve Thanksg1nng meals, food for the needy,… |
Sequence 60• At the same time, we need Lo decide as a group of Montessori schools \, hat our target is in the clevcloprnenl of adolescent… |
Sequence 2concrete, real, and relevant to the lives of young children; (5) provid- ing experiences for children that are outside of the… |
Sequence 2fact accounts for the spread of this approach to 49 of the 50 states and to other English-speaking countries, in both public… |
Sequence 128fact accounts for the spread of this approach to 49 of the 50 states and to other English-speaking countries, in both public… |
Sequence 184concrete, real, and relevant to the lives of young children; (5) provid- ing experiences for children that are outside of the… |
Sequence 3viewed her educational principles from the very start as anything less than a contribution to the whole planet. Accordingly,… |
Sequence 1SLIDE SHOW TO INTRODUCE WHAT Is MONTESSORI PRESCHOOL? Maria Montessori was, in many ways, ahead of her time. Born in Italy… |
Sequence 2Maria Montessori died in 1952, but her work continues. Today there are close to five thousand private and approximately two… |
Sequence 2We might now continue our conversation with Montessori: "Now that you have returned to your studies, what are you… |
Sequence 9each plane, is where children have opportunities to engage in and implement their expanding humanness, this hierarchical… |
Sequence 3THE NORMALIZED SCHOOL: MONTESSORI AS A WAY OF LIFE by Mary Zeman Mary Zeman offers a definition of the "nonnalized… |
Sequence 1ALL-DAY MONTESSORI: NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF THE EXPERIMENT by David Kahn The catch phrase "all-day Montessori&… |
Sequence 11matters like eating and resting during the course of the day must be addressed. Should lunch be prepared by the children on… |
Sequence 2When Maria Montessori set up her first class environment in San Lorenzo in 1907, there were many educational scholars who… |
Sequence 29inclusive community, not one that divides them in order to conquer, but one that unifies them in order to set them free. I… |
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 1DISCOVERING THE HIDDEN PERSON by Rita Zener and Laura Noriega Ezcurdia Capturing the optimism of normalization theory, the… |
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 3He said, "This is just terrible." I said, "Yeah, democracy can be a terrible thing." He… |
Sequence 6told by the local EPA that he had some type of wild rat colony on his farm. The man was farming his land, and he had to cease… |
Sequence 7Prepare teachers through prolonged practice with observation of nature .... (Discovery 66-77) And when I talk about freedom… |
Sequence 2Why is that? Why is that-especially in the face of the importance that Dr. Montessori gave to normalization? Is it that we… |
Sequence 3NORMALIZATION AS OUR PRIMARY WORK Perhaps this conference marks the next step in our development of Montessori's ideas.… |
Sequence 2DISCOVERING THE REAL SPIRITUAL CHILD (PART 1) by Sofia Cavalletti Sofia Cavalletti cites Montessori's description of… |
Sequence 1Two TRIBUTES To SoFIA CAVALLETTI The following tributes were presented to Sofia c.avalletti at the NAMT A conference entitled… |
Sequence 10AN INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT Evidence of the suitability of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd for children of diverse cultures… |
Sequence 2THE TOTONACA PEOPLE AND THE CATECHESIS OF THE GooD SHEPHERD by Maria Christlieb Robles Illustrating the spread of the… |
Sequence 19ANTI-CONSUMERISM RESOURCES Consumer Alert 1001 Connecticut Ave. NW Suite 1128 Washington DC 20036 202-467-5809 fax 202-… |
Sequence 14If you can't look him straight in the eye. He's the fellow to please, never mind all the rest, For he's with… |
Sequence 1THE CASADEI BAMBINI: PRIMARY PERSPECTIVES THROUGH TIME AND SPACE by David Kahn The vision of San Lorenzo, the Casadei… |
Sequence 1Casa dei Bambini, San Lorenzo, Rome 4 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 25, No. 1 • Winter 2000 |
Sequence 2THE CASADEI BAMBINI: A CENTURY CONCEPT by Elizabeth Hall Elizabeth Hall walks readers through early Montessori history, from… |
Sequence 1THE CHILD AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT by Molly O'Shaughnessy Molly O'Shaughnessy has written a definitive article… |
Sequence 21Creativity is vital. It's easy to overlook. But it's easy and fun to use when you have the right spirit and the… |
Sequence 1OBITUARY MARIA CHRISTLIEB ROBLES Both the Montessori community and the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd lost a friend,… |
Sequence 28Creativity is vital. It's easy to overlook. But it's easy and fun to use when you have the right spirit and the… |
Sequence 123THE CHILD AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT by Molly O'Shaughnessy Molly O'Shaughnessy has written a definitive article… |
Sequence 237THE CASADEI BAMBINI: A CENTURY CONCEPT by Elizabeth Hall Elizabeth Hall walks readers through early Montessori history, from… |
Sequence 238Casa dei Bambini, San Lorenzo, Rome 4 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 25, No. 1 • Winter 2000 |
Sequence 241THE CASADEI BAMBINI: PRIMARY PERSPECTIVES THROUGH TIME AND SPACE by David Kahn The vision of San Lorenzo, the Casadei… |
Sequence 6selected fifteen from those who were nominated, and we spent a week in Mexico, in Akumal, a small resort on the Caribbean… |
Sequence 10Renilde Montessori then presented her vision of origins and innovation. Inspired by the Taliesin community, she began with a… |
Sequence 6A man whose mind is stored with the knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of nature and of the laws of her operations… |
Sequence 7varies from stage to stage because of the way a child learns at each period of his growth and development. The adult, instead… |
Sequence 3his time, place and culture." 1 Within all life the germinal cell is endowed with a plan to bring the particular life… |
Sequence 3impulse towards work." 1 She had noticed that impulse in the work of that first group of children she was asked to… |
Sequence 5revealed to the recipient in spite of his having taken the precaution, before eating, to hide the accompanying letter under a… |
Sequence 9you look at the long history of the West, that's the fight for the Western soul, and usually the period of the classical… |
Sequence 10start to see that Mexico developed in a way that did not completely embrace this Western paradigm. I can tell you that… |
Sequence 11was very well-meaning. But as soon as people got capital for them- selves, what did they do with it? Did they go out and buy… |
Sequence 18I said, "Yeah, democracy can be a terrible thing." He just stopped. He said, "What did you say?… |
Sequence 21and was put in jail and they confiscated his tractor-a big scandal in the southern San Joaquin Valley. About that same time in… |
Sequence 1THE DEVELOPMENT OF COORDINATED MOVEMENT by Silvana Quattrocchi Montanaro Dr. Montanaro discusses the stages of movement in… |
Sequence 1THE ASSISTANT TO INFANCY: A SPECIAL EDUCATOR by Silvana Quattrocchi Montanaro Dr. Montanaro introduces the origins of the… |
Sequence 11There are different ways to look at cosmic education and at the cosmic vision. One that Montessori talks about is how we… |
Sequence 14Figure 10. Figure 11. Figure 10 is done by a five- year-old child who never had the presentations of the cosmic cross, and… |
Sequence 3You will notice that I talk about contents. Cosmic education, among other things, is about what to put before the children.… |
Sequence 11better. So if I had been looking at birds instead of baseball .. .I Jove basebalJ and I want to goto the Mariners game tonight… |
Sequence 14as a model for the "Children's House" of San Lorenzo. Montessori gave the name "Erdkinder,… |
Sequence 11The fundamentals of freedom and responsibility are paramount in the healthy functioning of such a class. The two must be kept… |
Sequence 1A MONTESSORI LIFE AS A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY-PART 1 by Silvana Quattrocchi Montanaro Dr. Montanaro speaks of how Montessori… |
Sequence 4of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering!" Once this… |
Sequence 2Cavalletti and Gianna Gobbi jointly worked out a program that seemed to correspond to the needs of the various ages,… |
Sequence 4Of the many things that I have heard and read during the days following Gianna Gobbi's death, I particularly like what a… |
Sequence 5Of the many things that I have heard and read during the days following Gianna Gobbi's death, I particularly like what a… |
Sequence 7Cavalletti and Gianna Gobbi jointly worked out a program that seemed to correspond to the needs of the various ages,… |
Sequence 143. with large amounts of open, uninterrupted time for free choice. So even in the face of changing times we must hold to… |
Sequence 15taught by Spanish speakers and given to Spanish speakers in a Spanish-speaking country, so I decided I needed to learn Spanish… |
Sequence 3life, and I have had several opportunities throughout these years to work in this area. In one occasion, during the time that… |
Sequence 14on a collective basis. The farm's profits, if any, are, for the most part, sown back into the students' next group… |
Sequence 4premise: Socialization is central to who we are as human beings. It's the reason for our big brains. My second premise… |