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Sequence 5instructional activities that will help children develop the learning-to- learn skills and behaviors associated with school… |
Sequence 18was from 8:30 A.M. to 1:30 P.M. There were 25 children in a class with a teacher, an aide, and two parent-aides who alternated… |
Sequence 7Time duration of interactions was significantly different between the two schools. Montessori children interacted longer times… |
Sequence 3forward to a big future at Syracuse University. ot to mention along the way I've found a great boyfriend and earned… |
Sequence 5helping students to be total human beings is a more important aim of education. Too many specialists can have only minimal… |
Sequence 7are to be expected and even desired for they contain information essential for further learning. For students to discover and… |
Sequence 1The Humanities MONTESSORI: THE HUMANITIES CONNECTION Minneapolis, March 2, 3, 4, 1989 by David Kahn Minneapolis marks a… |
Sequence 8who must get well - grow in health. The farmer does many things for his plants or animals, but in the final analysis it is… |
Sequence 13Lupus is an exhausting disease, but Flannery O'Connor was none- theless to make herself into one of the great writers of… |
Sequence 10Elements of the Definition of Class Discussion I. An interchange between students, not primarily between stu- dents and… |
Sequence 7verbal; memory of mere opinions adopted on the naked authority assumed by indoctrinating teachers. The conception of the… |
Sequence 2There is a broad spectrum of interest in the six year old, and Mont- essori suggests accordingly that we must sow as many… |
Sequence 2Method of Instrumentation The sample consisted of 96 Montessori students and 48 school stu- dents, their parents and teachers… |
Sequence 2this sense to accomplish his ends in a natural way, instead of having to keep intervening to add new things. In the 17th… |
Sequence 1INTRODUCING LUCIANO MAZZETTI Luciano Mazzetti Dr. uuciano Mazzetti is the president of the International Montes- sori Center… |
Sequence 2from one learning stage to the next, the first must be completely mastered. But Bruner implies that the conceptualization… |
Sequence 9The Montessori idea is unfinished by design. Some complain that the curriculum presented in Montessori training is incomplete… |
Sequence 3takes place without any voluntary effort on the part of the child. It is a time when children project themselves, by activity… |
Sequence 4sensorially, they are simultaneously absorbing the world into them- selves. Children build their conception of self and… |
Sequence 6comparison, and choice, and since their interest is held by the movement provided by the apparatus, they are motivated to act… |
Sequence 10complex civilizations that the Mexican philosopher and educator Jose Vasconcelos dubbed them "the cosmic race.&… |
Sequence 6...... The Montessori Birth Center served as a referral service, matching Assistants to Infancy with families desiring their… |
Sequence 1THE MFANING OF EDUCATIONAL REFORM by Jerome Bruner Jerome Bruner has the ability to view curriculum with its foll interactive… |
Sequence 5community members are viewed as resources and are involved in curricular planning and the evaluation of their children.… |
Sequence 5oversee. I became daddy for 15 kids, something that also is built into the structure of the school. But within that advisory… |
Sequence 2outside the school, directives from supervisors, and advice from others in similar roles. They accepted the status qua and… |
Sequence 131. Much greater range of students' instructional materials (books, tapes, films, programmed in- struction, simulations… |
Sequence 9What causes us co distinguish between species is always their differences, never their likeness. What constitutes another… |
Sequence 11cioned above, Bruner and Coghill, have now accepted that face chat the creative process comes into play in growth and learning… |
Sequence 1610. Jerome S. Bruner, Toward a Theory of Instruction (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Universiry Press, 1966). I l. Alexis Carrel,… |
Sequence 12casks in terms of the adaptive actitudes and skills chat he believes every person should master, including industry, identity… |
Sequence 16must hold students to real academic standards to be ready for college and life. College faculty chink high school teachers… |
Sequence 3implementation of the Montessori model but will provide a wealth of more general information about children's school… |
Sequence 3Montessori views personal autonomy as interconnected with social re- sponsibility and the evolution of human societies. The… |
Sequence 9Each observation period required approximately two hours; at the comple- tion of each session the observer tallied the checks… |
Sequence 18The study supports the findings of Bruner, DeCharms, and others that self- motivation is part of a complex process In… |
Sequence 19The analysis of behaviors characterizing autonomy in this study implies the cyclical nature of its development, involving the… |
Sequence 20Bruner, Jerome S. ( 1971 ). The relevance of education. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company. Chadwick, Bruce A; Bahr… |
Sequence 19The best response to the objections is to insist on telling the truth. Administrators must have the courage to face the public… |
Sequence 10creation of a public space; Dewey talked consistently about an "articulate public" bringing a public sphere… |
Sequence 5opment guarantees the unfolding of basic "experience expectant" systems. Refinements of language, such as… |
Sequence 14the teachers do not already know tJ1e answer. Even when tJ1e form of the question seems to invite a variety of answers, tJ1ere… |
Sequence 16as models and guides at every stage of devel- opment. Jerome Bruner calls this "loaning chil- dren our conscious… |
Sequence 20fail to instill in developing minds the fundamental skills of attention and reasoning. Increasing numbers of children today… |
Sequence 134fail to instill in developing minds the fundamental skills of attention and reasoning. Increasing numbers of children today… |
Sequence 138as models and guides at every stage of devel- opment. Jerome Bruner calls this "loaning chil- dren our conscious… |
Sequence 9exception was in one of the Montessori classrooms, where a student, described by her teacher to have a mother addicted to… |
Sequence 22Ceci, S.J., & Liker, J. (1987). IQ and reasoning complexity: The role of experience.Journal of Experimental Psychology… |
Sequence 9with her husband. She was also a vet. The students who worked with her went early in the morning to help her with the hard,… |
Sequence 1MONTESSORI: A CARING PEDAGOGY by Elizabeth Hall In this Montessori manifesto of caring, Ms. Hall puts forward the impor-… |
Sequence 9was one of the most wonderful experiences of my Ufe. I really felt as though I was living with nature, without worrying about… |
Sequence 8attention most naturally? How can I capitalize on the natural interests of the student to draw her or him ever more deeply… |
Sequence 9students the opportunity to apply ideas to their per- sonal lives first. Thus, a Socratic Practice group may be studying… |
Sequence 6school operation as a whole, maintained by a young family. Thus the Erdkinder is teeming with so many opportunities for work… |
Sequence 32University of Vermont, where they held 750 high school Latin stu- dents spellbound in a gym during a presentation at Vermont… |
Sequence 5solutions. Quality of instruction declines accordingly, and with it goes the quality of learning opportunities for students.… |
Sequence 11for the needs of reading teachers, mathematics teachers are trying to reform mathematics instruction independently of science… |
Sequence 2to leave the setting of their school behind for an experience on a farm. Set on a mountain top and a tract of forest land, the… |
Sequence 15Open up to nature And enter Yet another world THE FUTURE CHALLENGE: FORMING A NEW CONSCIOUSNESS There needs to be a &… |
Sequence 4words of Bob Samples, Sir Isaac Newton, and Jerome Bruner as cited in Samples' The Metaphoric Mind: The inventive… |
Sequence 5Yourn: But why say it's a green dragon when obviously it isn't? THOMAS: For several reasons. I call the universe a… |
Sequence 7Reeve), the distance between actual development and the potential level of development possible with guidance or help (… |
Sequence 8learner goes from one step to the next. Once mastered in that appropri- ate form, the learner can go on to more powerful, more… |
Sequence 9initially shown spontaneous interest, quickly lose that interest. They now realize that rewards reduce a child's desire… |
Sequence 13when first announced. Even after accepting the theory, the scientific community of chemists still had to "beat nature… |
Sequence 14when first announced. Even after accepting the theory, the scientific community of chemists still had to "beat nature… |
Sequence 18initially shown spontaneous interest, quickly lose that interest. They now realize that rewards reduce a child's desire… |
Sequence 19learner goes from one step to the next. Once mastered in that appropri- ate form, the learner can go on to more powerful, more… |
Sequence 20Reeve), the distance between actual development and the potential level of development possible with guidance or help (… |
Sequence 9Because, even with all the glory and the grandeur of those furnish- ings, the world would have been an unfilled promise, this… |
Sequence 9· "My first day of Middle School ... " • "Elementary school was the ... " · "My… |
Sequence 3National Erdkinder Consortium, a clearing house for Erdkinder devel- opment founded by Gang. Three previously unpublished… |
Sequence 7cultural history when "bigger" was "better." The tradeoff was that bigness meant… |
Sequence 4The crucial point of the whole question is the manner in which he considers the child, and this cannot depend on external… |
Sequence 1During the ride back from the hunger center, I reflected upon my encounter with poverty. When I arrived home my mother stood… |
Sequence 5The teacher takes responsibility for thirty-one percent in eighth the child's reaching each level of grade. 1 Depth is… |
Sequence 8The how it is to be done remains constant: verbalization, materials for development, point of arrival, the three-period lesson… |
Sequence 1212. We must provide concrete materials and manipulative tasks. Many students cannot master certain ideas without them. We… |
Sequence 8Everything about the children ment clearly urges middle schools to has a history, and if the stu- transform the fundamental… |
Sequence 10The ideal is that as young people are learning about the cultural diversity of their city, they will begin to define their own… |
Sequence 4Fuu-TJME STAFF David Kahn: program director, administrator, admissjons direc- tor, recruiter, publications director,… |
Sequence 8munities like Montes- sori communities are sometimes criticized for not providing enough peer choices for stu- dents to… |
Sequence 1Search for Meaning and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's Elements of Enjoy- ment, which describes the conditions of optimal… |
Sequence 8Teachers like McMillin, who combine passion for their work with genuine concern for their stu- dents, possess the rare power… |
Sequence 10A CHALLENGE TO THE TEACHER I have spent the majority of my life as a student or teacher in some ea paci ty. Yet I have… |
Sequence 11This work became a book, In the First Country of Places: Nature, Poetry and Childhood Memory. What I found was that it was… |
Sequence 3I began with origins. I enjoyed the etymology of the word education (from Latin educare, "to draw out"). I… |
Sequence 25detailed classroom signals, percentage variables were calculated for each student and for the Montessori and traditional… |
Sequence 26Figure 4. Students' Perceptions ofTheir Teachers and Schools • Montessori o 1hditional 2.7 Teacher Support..… |
Sequence 33Why are these results important for the Montessori middle school students? Many skeptics will look at these results and say… |
Sequence 4experience (flow) theory, but I know they had studied the thought of Maria Montessori. What I saw at each of the schools were… |
Sequence 4to this further exploration are not set by the number of different fields of learning or knowledge, but by the psychology of… |
Sequence 158to this further exploration are not set by the number of different fields of learning or knowledge, but by the psychology of… |
Sequence 3ties that directly sustain him, but in the symbolic activities which give significance both to the processes of work and… |
Sequence 14Bruner, Jerome. "Man: A Course of Study." Toward a Theory of Instruction. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1966… |
Sequence 7We had a record number of managers this year, our sixth year of operation, which is a situation we are pleased with; the… |
Sequence 5neighbors, and they often had little in common with us other than physical proximity. If a child was seen by a neighbor doing… |
Sequence 6What we as Montessorians have not had as much opportunity to observe is how young adolescents are transformed when they are… |
Sequence 10adolescents wanted (loud rap music during supervised room clean- ing) and what the houseparent wanted (just about anything… |
Sequence 7(Grazzini 7). By looking to these patterns of development we can see that it is vital to understand the whole of the… |