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Sequence 7the widening gulf between affluent and improverished people, and the diversion of societal resources to military expenditures… |
Sequence 8approach and blame the victims of poverty for their own problems. The discredited concepts of the "poverty culture… |
Sequence 9Environmental deprivation is another factor. Families without proper food, clothing, and shelter are hindered from offering… |
Sequence 10Orthodox: A Study to Determine the Relative Improvement of the Preschool Child with Brain Damage Trained By One of Two Meth-… |
Sequence 11These concepts involve the order and structure of the prepared learning environment, the non-competitive social organization… |
Sequence 12A final aspect which deserves mention is the view of the child's potential for development taken by Montessori. In many… |
Sequence 13condescend, we mutter hurried excuses and flee because we do not understand. There are millions of people who have difficulty… |
Sequence 14already prepared. Perhaps we are the ones in greater need of help than the poor or the disabled. Montessori helped us… |
Sequence 16I had the firsthand experience of seeing how the chil.d's pof£n- ti.al for deuelopme~ can blossom despif£ the most… |
Sequence 17A MONTESSORI MULTICULTURAL ENVIRONMENT WITH SOUTHEAST ASIAN REFUGEE CHILDREN by Mw-iel W Adcock Ms. Adcock's… |
Sequence 18this experiment with children so impoverished that two of them did not even have homes, but slept at night with their mother… |
Sequence 19years of age. The thousands of older children are bussed to schools many miles away. The need for local community-based… |
Sequence 20While looking for a larger space for the food store more and more requests were being made by local residents for child care.… |
Sequence 21Another issue of particular importance was language. Within the classroom the children spoke Vietnamese, Laotian, Chinese,… |
Sequence 22multicultural activities itself, contains these three distinct Asian communities. The children seemed to have a cultural… |
Sequence 23hundred children on the waiting list. In September, 1985 the center opened its doors to fifty disadvantaged children, 80… |
Sequence 24The adults soon realized that the children's response was indeed substantial; concentration and independence began to… |
Sequence 25The importance of language was always in our thoughts. The majority of the children spoke no English, and there were seven… |
Sequence 26disadvantaged children responded to the materials with unusual enthusiasm and respect. The order and beauty of the prepared… |
Sequence 27year the school is continuing to grow. Construction is now underway to provide an additional smaller classroom and kitchen.… |
Sequence 28LOW INCOME FAMILIES: A REALITY OF URBAN EDUCATION by Carol Hicks Ms. Hicks portrays a realistic picture of struggle and… |
Sequence 29With the move into the low income populations Montesserians will be able to address an oft voiced criticism of our work. Many… |
Sequence 30with or play with their children. Many families do not go out to muse- ums, zoos or on trips. Some students have never been on… |
Sequence 31tive to the diversity. A parent audience at our school may include parents who are concerned about the Hurried Child Syndrome… |
Sequence 32beginning. I believe that such a system of networking could lead to a strenthening of our work in all schools and to painting… |
Sequence 33AN OVERVIEW OF THE HARVARD FAMILY RESEARCH PROJECT by Heather Weiss Important to urban education are family support and… |
Sequence 34such a way as to support and respect the family's role and prerogatives. Preliminary evaluation evidence suggests that… |
Sequence 35kinds of evidence of effectiveness required for school personnel, community spokespersons, and parents. 4. A series of case… |
Sequence 36School Profiles: A series of brief portrayals of Montessori urban programs viewed from a personal as well as institutional… |
Sequence 37offer to all the children of Milwaukee. MacDowell is today joined by a second public Montessori program - Greenfield… |
Sequence 38Milwaukee is prominent, along with several other cities which have fostered the growth of public Montessori schools. It is… |
Sequence 39• Children's House classes have full-time assistants. • Elementary classes have half-time assistants. • An art… |
Sequence 40Just as the understanding of the growth and development of the child in our complex society continues to build in the… |
Sequence 41CINCINNATI: DEVELOPING THE MONTESSORI MAGNET SCHOOL by Phyllis J. Williams Building and Grounds Crew North Avondale… |
Sequence 42is through our children. Peace through education in an environment that allows for mixed human experiences, facilitates the… |
Sequence 43• Montessori trained and certified teachers and administrators representing both the Association Montessori Internationale… |
Sequence 4440 nation's first attempt to involve parents in the education deci- sion-making process. • Preschool Parents… |
Sequence 45computer training for the staff, makes available its plush conference room which is fully equipped for small workshops, and… |
Sequence 465. Page and Paragraph - The teacher writes questions regarding the story and the child writes the page a:Q.d para- graph… |
Sequence 47THE MAROTTA MONTESSORI SCHOOL: A CONCEPT DEDICATED TO URBAN RENEWAL by Alcillia Jones Clifford There is an urgent calling… |
Sequence 48• Elementary age: better scholastic placement, improved achievement • Adolescent age: lower rate of delinquency, higher rate… |
Sequence 49a time are scheduled to visit the mini-environment to work on areas that will help them adjust or normalize in their classroom… |
Sequence 50Future Focus The inner city has its own set of pressing problems which can only be solved through education. The alarming… |
Sequence 51RED CLOUD INDIAN SCHOOUS MONTESSORI PROGRAM by Joseph A. Fairbanks Red Cloud Indian School is located on the Pine Ridge… |
Sequence 52recommend it to the school and community on the Pine Ridge Reser- vation, and even to the state of South Dakota. The location… |
Sequence 53which gives me the ability to discern what is universal to learning and children. C I 49 |
Sequence 54STARTING AT BIRTH AND TEACHING NEW MOTHERS by J. Mc Vicker Hunt Dr. Hunt's presentation here is really two essays.… |
Sequence 55below). In cases where the food and care that infants receive is uncon- tingent with their strivings, as is the case in many… |
Sequence 56enrichment contingent with infant acts, but it was abortive because the person, then resident director, failed to keep the… |
Sequence 57with a two-month old" and used video-tapes to demonstrate that once an infant has repeatedly experienced a cooing… |
Sequence 58with familiar ones at first, but the proportion of unfamiliar patterns was to be increased until the child could imitate… |
Sequence 59on Piagetian tasks correlate + .87 with measures from standard IQ tests, this may well be a relatively accurate estimate of… |
Sequence 60THE MONTESSORI RESEARCH: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE by Mary Maher Boehnlein, Ph.D Introduction Leonardo da Vinci said,… |
Sequence 61with or opposed to the philosophy and beliefs of Montessori. This evidence, however, must be gathered according to the… |
Sequence 62literature. The most striking result of this review ofliterature is that even when the results were positive, the essence of… |
Sequence 634. A classroom not fully equipped with the full range of commercial and handmade materials, or a classroom in which the… |
Sequence 64mathematical achievement on the Standard school tests. Kimmins asked that he be allowed to administer a series of individual… |
Sequence 65lems, an interesting result occurred. Montessori children did not score higher than the other children until later in… |
Sequence 66Dame in 1969, tested the children at the conclusion of their Montes- sori preschool and found them superior on measures of… |
Sequence 67accelerated as a consequence of using the Montessori materials. Subjects were in their second year in three different… |
Sequence 68acquire more "school-type" behaviors. Most of these studies were done in the 1960's and were in Head… |
Sequence 69Montessori casa curriculum. The list was then equated with each age task on the Stanford-Binet intelligence scale. Children… |
Sequence 70seems to be a result of developmental influences alone or direct instruction. O'Hern's study in 1932 examined the… |
Sequence 71refute the early and continuing criticism that because Montessori preschool children work individually they are not developing… |
Sequence 72early diagnosis and therapy and early socialization. He states that the use of the Montessori method has helped handicapped… |
Sequence 73public school students. Public school children were more dependent upon the teacher. Baldridge (1981) studied two ways of… |
Sequence 74tions differed depending upon whether or not she was present when the behavior ocurred. Turner (1978) designed a test for… |
Sequence 75development, and the disadvantaged child; second, teacher training and teacher and teaching differences; and third, the… |
Sequence 76Boehnlein, Mary. (1984). A study of college/uruversity accredited Montessori teacher training programs. NAMTA Quarterly, 9, 49… |
Sequence 77McCormick, C. & Schnobich, J. (1969). IES Arrow-Dot performance in two Montessori preschools. Perceptual Motor Skills… |
Sequence 78Early childhood curricula have drawn to varying extents common early childhood tradition that equates early child- hood… |
Sequence 79CHILD-INITIATED ACTIVITY: HOW IMPORTANT IS IT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION? by Lawrence J. Schweinhart Child-initiated… |
Sequence 80As psychologists became involved in early childhood education in the 1960s, they developed early childhood curriculum models… |
Sequence 81the 1950s highly valued obedience and good manners in their chil- dren, while today's parents prefer their children to be… |
Sequence 82only 8% of the High/Scope and nursery school groups, as compared to 44% of the Direct-Instruction group. It is important to… |
Sequence 83research on teaching and childrearing has pointed to the superiority of an "authoritative" or "… |
Sequence 84child's entry level skills, then presents instruction along predeter- mined lines based on these skills. Interaction… |
Sequence 85Each of us has strengths and weaknesses, and "handicapping conditions" are simply a category of weaknesses.… |
Sequence 86five-year-olds are not ready for academic kindergartens and that developmental kindergartens should serve all children, not… |
Sequence 87variation in teacher backgrounds and interpretation of curriculum principles. Another problem is the dearth oflongitudinal… |
Sequence 888. For example, Diana Baumrind, "Current Patterns of Parental Authority:' Developmental Psychology Monograph,… |
Sequence 89BUILDING CORRELATIONS: COSMIC EDUCATION AND MORAL DEVELOPMENT Part One by David Kahn Looking at the classical Montessori… |
Sequence 90I be missed by one who polishes beads and hangs the children's art- but does not see beyond what the child is doing… |
Sequence 91But let us not diminish the prepared environment. The elemen- tary child has a kinship to the biological world which we bring… |
Sequence 92and discontinuity that renders such interventions incompatible with the more general aims of teachers and students. Even the… |
Sequence 93matter at that, whatever direction our imagination may take, it shall discover no empty place ... our imagination seems to be… |
Sequence 94Universe imparts, or perhaps evokes. a feeling orientation, an appre- ciation for life which is part training, and which… |
Sequence 95Then at last, God did make you. He gave you a body and a soul. He gave you an angel to look after you. He gave you a father… |
Sequence 96through his liturgy where the class composes songs, plays, artworks, etc. There is a culminating event-the children share… |
Sequence 97who is focused and aware of the child's need for personal uplift who is most able to touch the emotional life of the… |
Sequence 98MONTESSORI EDUCATION FOR MORAL DEVELOPMENT by John Bodi October, 1986 Spanning a hist,ory of both tra.ditional social… |
Sequence 99country's and state's histories. American leaders of the 19th century believed that no nation could survive, let… |
Sequence 100work that is being done, as servants help the master. Doing so, they will be witnesses to the unfolding of the human soul and… |
Sequence 101punishment or to obtain personal rewards. The moral judgments of a child this age are only related to the society's rules… |
Sequence 102reasons, those of importance to us (usually goal oriented). We make choices continually, have success or not, and go on to the… |
Sequence 103be able to operate successfully; these persons in conjunction with each other should form a coherent body of positive growth… |
Sequence 105ONE WORLD, ONE DRUM by Tom Sipes My first teaching assignment was in a Catholic seminary in East Africa, in the town of… |
Sequence 106credits include the percussion soundtrack to the movie Apocalypse Now and percussion consultant to the Smithsonian Institution… |
Sequence 107ent cultures. This experience can help to diminish prejudice and cultural stereotyping by establishing personal relationships… |
Sequence 108NAMTANEWS: NAMTAPLANSURBANSTUDY Fifty or so public school districts involved with Montessori must deal with Montessori… |