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Sequence 12liked and felt that he was good at-and was feeling very optimistic about his future. Like Elena, Lin sustained his early… |
Sequence 13classes, he said he worked hardest and felt most challenged in his math and science courses, which were his favorite subjects… |
Sequence 14When we spoke to Steve three years later, his goals had changed. After spending five years in an engineering program, he said… |
Sequence 15that adolescents have very few opportunities to gain experiences that might translate into future careers. By the end of high… |
Sequence 16Csikszentmihalyi, M., & I. S. Csikszentmihalyi. Optimal Experience: Studies of Flow in Consciousness. New York:… |
Sequence 1IN THE SERVICE OF CREATION by Renilde Montessori Renilde Montessori's evocative call to protect, nurture, and aid life… |
Sequence 2In a wider sense, Montessori pedagogy has been understood as an aid to the life of the human community. To contribute to the… |
Sequence 3others. Parenthood is a touchy subject. People still consider that they have the right to produce a child whenever they choose… |
Sequence 4Implicit in love of the environment are the awe and wonder of discovering the world. Another element inherent in love of the… |
Sequence 5language and have this language elicited from them, they will acquire emotional, physical, and intellectual independence.… |
Sequence 6Education as an aid to life requires the adults' willingness to revisit their own sense of awe and wonder. private, or… |
Sequence 7is under construction. Everything that has been absorbed uncon- sciously during the first three years we revisit repeatedly… |
Sequence 8anything; they give them the opportunity to consciously explore that which they have absorbed in the first two and a half… |
Sequence 1THE w ORK OF THE CHILD AND COSMIC EDUCATION by Peter Gebhardt-Seele Projecting a utopian world free from developmental… |
Sequence 2But when because of favorable circumstances work flows naturally from an inner impulse, it assumes an entirely different… |
Sequence 3under the guise of rights, establishes the results of human deviations as social. principles. In this way error triumphs and… |
Sequence 4the instruments of his personality and as an expression of his intellect and will helping him to dominate his environ- ment… |
Sequence 5shown that this is the most certain datum that we have in the field of psychology and education" (Secret 185-186).… |
Sequence 6tion is the educational plan for six- to twelve-year-olds. The Greek idea of cosmos refers to the totality of the universe,… |
Sequence 7shellfish and one-celled creatures, whose remains then cover the ocean floor and later are transformed into marble, limestone… |
Sequence 8So here is the call to the educator: Prepare human beings to deal with themselves so that they may be more successful in their… |
Sequence 9REFERENCES Montessori, Maria. Kosmische Erziehung [Cosmic Ed11ca- lio11J. Freiburg, Germany: Herder, 1988. German trans-… |
Sequence 1THE GREAT WORK OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM by Thomas Berry Thomas Berry explores the meaning of work from the standpoint of human… |
Sequence 2The earth venture, the life venture, is a single ven- ture. If the other living forms don't succeed we cannot succeed… |
Sequence 3Just as the child needs the older person, the older person needs the child. We have at least as much need for children, in… |
Sequence 4Emotions, to a world of intimacy. It takes a universe to make a child Both in outer form and inner spirit. It takes a… |
Sequence 5Wonder is especially important in our times, because our world has given up wonder for use as our primary experience of the… |
Sequence 6or the consequences it would bring about on the land, even though these consequences are so obvious. The automobile has made… |
Sequence 7with the soul-space in the surrounding world. Knowledge is a pres- ence of two beings in a single psychic space. One of the… |
Sequence 8its high moment of wonder and beauty and intimacy. Flowers had come into being. We couldn't exist without flowers for two… |
Sequence 9I was born in the year 1914, the beginning of the First World War. General Motors and the other automobile corporations had… |
Sequence 10But in an organic economy, the child learns how to interact with things so as to promote an ever-renewing world of beauty and… |
Sequence 11RESOURCES FOR SUSTAINABILITY Ecocity Builders 1678 Shattuck Ave., #66 Berkeley, CA 94709 ecocity@apc.org www .preservenet.… |
Sequence 12Another way of thinking about this relationship is to consider the individual self as the small self, related to the Earth or… |
Sequence 1168 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 26, No. 1 • Winter 200/ |
Sequence 2FOLLOWING THE HAND: THE FIRST THREE YEARS OF LIFE by Judi Orion Delineating the steps of development of the human hand from… |
Sequence 3hers that neuroscience in particular is now validating. In respect to her understanding of the importance of the hand, she was… |
Sequence 4ration of the visual system and the myelination of the nerve fibers controlling the muscles of the arm and hand, the child… |
Sequence 5Perhaps we should make little cue cards and put them around somewhere: "Have you changed your baby's… |
Sequence 6thumb sticking straight up. Sometimes the thumb just lies against the hand. But they are very effective with scooping, in… |
Sequence 7---------------------------------- --- appropriate use for many of those rattles, because most of them are just not designed… |
Sequence 8day caretaking. I think it is very he.lpful to have a peer group with whom you can share information. There is also nothing as… |
Sequence 9of the hand is that babies instinctively will reach out and right themselves with the hand. You even see babies sitting in… |
Sequence 10fall asleep while playing without your knowing about it for half an hour. You are right there. If you are not, you have the… |
Sequence 11one or both arms onto something so they can use their hands to manipulate. Once they are standing, they do not want to sit… |
Sequence 12So of course you can do these things at twelve months. I looked at that and thought, it is simply a mindset we have to change… |
Sequence 13This is when they are fascinated in taking keys and putting them into little holes. Those are the kinds of things these… |
Sequence 14REFERENCES Eliot, Lise. What's Going On in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life. New… |
Sequence 1©wOOJMa Preventing Exclusion in the W}m~., 00@,r "llff ~ Early Elementary Classroom ~ ~'tlfflir ~ 182 The… |
Sequence 2THIRTY YEARS IN THE MONTESSORI CLASSROOM by Donna Bryant Goertz Donna Bryant Goertz makes a plea for an inclusive classroom… |
Sequence 3The Montessori classroom functions on the general principle that each child has an innate passion to learn, is indeed driven… |
Sequence 4scheduling practice, and assessing levels of achievement, as a teacher usually does, the guide, based on his or her knowledge… |
Sequence 5The Montessori classroom functions on the general principle that each child has an innate passion to learn, is indeed driven… |
Sequence 6work on flow corroborates Montessori' s discoveries of concentration exhibited by young children in her prepared… |
Sequence 7tion, even if only sporadically at first, their achievement level will develop over the years along with their concentration.… |
Sequence 8working with children, I have found it to be not only possible but also practical and, yes, even sublimely essential to… |
Sequence 9inely wanted, loved, and supported by children and adults, does life become simple and easy ever after? No. Are all of the… |
Sequence 10children is "unmanageable." None of the children "has a problem" or is a "… |
Sequence 11offenders, and protect the victims? Why shouldn't the adults give assignments, dole out rewards and punishments, require… |
Sequence 12interest in and aptitude for ethical development. Maria Montessori wrote extensively about this aspect of the child's… |
Sequence 13burden for a child to be "bad" or "good." We must relieve every child of that burden and… |
Sequence 1LANGUAGE ACQUISITION by Silvana Montanaro Dr. Montanaro' s concise presentation of language development in children… |
Sequence 2At around three to four months, a new form of expression emerges in which vowels are reproduced very clearly and are almost… |
Sequence 3At five to six months, the sounds of certain consonants become distinctly apparent, e.g., m, n, and d. These consonants are… |
Sequence 4the course of a day to name objects clearly for the child. Itis important just to say the name of the object and not to give… |
Sequence 5desire to communicate. It is advisable to check hearing soon after birth. Any defect will disturb or impede the absorption of… |
Sequence 6acquisition-children who speak clearly and correctly at the age of two, instead of children who still speak in an"… |
Sequence 7In the light of scientific information, we realize that often the best years for learning one or several languages go by… |
Sequence 1LANGUAGE AND THE DEVELOPING BRAIN by Lise Eliot Acknowledging the universal nature of language as a unique part of human… |
Sequence 2are on the same footing about what a synapse is, what myelination is, and the physical, chemical, basis of brain development… |
Sequence 3are not able to grow up and sing it properly, and if they can't sing properly they can't mate and reproduce, so… |
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Sequence 5entire nervous system, and all of these are produced within the first five months of prenatal gestation. We start already with… |
Sequence 6dendrites synapse axon Figure 2. Synapse: a connection between two neurons. dendrite and out through the axon, but the… |
Sequence 7Most sensitive phase 0 4.0 C: .Q 3.5 ·;:: - en Q) en Q. ffl C ~ 0 .... Q) .c E ::::, z 3.0 2.5 2.0 1.5… |
Sequence 8Different parts of the brain overproduce and prune their synapses at slightly different phases of development. Figure 3 shows… |
Sequence 9cellular and molecular mechanisms by which this plasticity occurs. This plasticity is said to be activity dependent, and by… |
Sequence 10ment, because that is probably the most potent form of inter- action we have in early life. This kind of environment re-… |
Sequence 11There are other reasons as well with preemies-they're sort of being bombarded by stimuli they're not ready for-but… |
Sequence 12brain development. One way that we as a society could make a huge impact on children's abilities is to prevent premature… |
Sequence 13carbon monoxide. All of those things actually lead to about a half pound reduction in birth weight. Brain size is proportional… |
Sequence 14cmnmunica tion. It's infinitely creative, and that of course is due to the magic of grammar and syntax, where we can take… |
Sequence 15social. We wouldn't have any need for language without a social group. And of course it can't be learned in… |
Sequence 16that-all in one word, which we don't do in English. We tend to depend much more on syntax or word order or stringing… |
Sequence 17that they're not capable of producing the full range of speech sounds that we adults are capable of. The vocal tract is… |
Sequence 18This language impairment is know as aphasia, specific loss of language that's not related to a hearing problem or to a… |
Sequence 19side of the brain as on the right side of the brain. And interestingly, this difference appears even prenatally, as early as… |
Sequence 20slowly. Their speech tends to be domi- nated by nouns and maybe verbs. They drop all the little con- nection words and… |
Sequence 21know my four-year-old still hasn't quite figured out the difference between a week and a month-it's all kind of the… |
Sequence 22overall melody and intonation. It's just like perceiving music. Chil- dren really are quite good at perceiving music.… |
Sequence 23a child's language experience. What we think happens is that in a baby's brain we have this initial bias; we have… |
Sequence 24responding with more activity than the right hemisphere even in these very young babies. The left hemisphere is biased for… |
Sequence 25Not every aspect of language is subject to a critical period. Grammar and pronunciation, which are two abilities that are… |
Sequence 26exposed to verbal language for the first time-she'd never been ex- posed to sign language, of course, because nobody knew… |
Sequence 27Virtually the same picture appears when we look at second lan- guage acquisition. In this case, researchers studied Korean and… |
Sequence 28seem to shut down at puberty, which is quite useful, since most of our professional development happens we! l after puberty.… |
Sequence 29The other thing we know, and this is primarily from work at the University of Chicago, is that language is irrepressible, that… |
Sequence 30They're not really refined, fine motor movements; they're more coarse things with the hands. These are easier… |
Sequence 31everybody that all of the research on the advantages of babies signing has come from these two authors, so I'm just… |
Sequence 32screens. They were played this one sentence, "Cookie Monster is tickling Elmo," and, lo and behold, the… |