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Sequence 2misleading if it leads someone to believe that cosmic education also applies, or can apply, to other planes of development-… |
Sequence 2misleading if it leads someone to believe that cosmic education also applies, or can apply, to other planes of development-… |
Sequence 7open for fewer hours and by being fully staffed at all times, we strive to provide the best possible environment for the… |
Sequence 3weeks befol"e I found out what was happening. They finally admitted to me that they were banging on the wall between… |
Sequence 1MURIEL DWYER: ON THE WAY TO THE AIRPORT by David Kahn Although Ms. Dwyer has written a short pamphlet entitled Key to… |
Sequence 4bedside table was a prayer book, and a new book by Luciano Mazzetti (speaking at the Summer Washington Conference) and a note… |
Sequence 6projects, ranging from elaborate drawings of Bronze Age armor to an animated cartoon, from epic poetry to a detailed… |
Sequence 1NORMALIZATION by Chulanganee Fernando Ms. Fernando J>resents an in-depth mew of the genesis of the i,dea of… |
Sequence 45. &8'pect for the child and tke aault and for the Casa (Children's House) is an im-portant part of life.… |
Sequence 6Fundamental to the hunter-gatherer adaptation is the belief that either we will all live together or we will die together.… |
Sequence 5Jan.23, 1883 1909 1935 1946 1947 1957 1961 HISTORY OF ASSISTANTS TO INFANCY Adele Costa Gnocchi was born in Montefalco… |
Sequence 6are able to visualize any given lrnowledge. By 18 you have envisioned the whole universe. Then at 18 you decide what your… |
Sequence 10Kahn: That's very interesting. Who are some of the people you tell stories about besides George Washington? Gunawardena… |
Sequence 2GL. How best do you see us helping children, especially the adolescents who are moving towards taking their place in the… |
Sequence 18Another activity for writing practice is ro search through all the sand- paper lerrei:s co find those char start with the same… |
Sequence 5names of fruits and vegetables he sees as he is being pushed along the aisle of the grocery store, or kinds of cars, or colors… |
Sequence 3receive free prenatal health check-ups and $ I 000 at the birch of their children. They also get six month's paid… |
Sequence 1THE IMPORTANCE OF MONTESSORI 2000 New American Schools Development Corporation (NASDC) was founded in 199 l by Lamar… |
Sequence 93THE IMPORTANCE OF MONTESSORI 2000 New American Schools Development Corporation (NASDC) was founded in 199 l by Lamar… |
Sequence 1SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT THE SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE TEACHER by Kay Baker Kay Baker's succinct speech (presented at the… |
Sequence 7So we read The Buuer Battle Book. It was Dr. Seuss' metaphor for the Cold War and the devel.opment of atomic weapons. Our… |
Sequence 5test tales in which you must listen and then repeat it exactly, never saying "a" when you should say &… |
Sequence 7around Germany among the people whose dialects still preserved some of the old forms, as some dialects do in many parts of… |
Sequence 9with them and know them. The dominant animals have, of course, changed a great deal. You get the dominance of the bear in the… |
Sequence 10Another one is "those youngest best," which means, historically, that iri a matriarchate, the youngest son… |
Sequence 11have been traced, and seventeen Robin Hoods. This snowballing happens because there are so few names. Even in England-… |
Sequence 3Montessori talked a good deal about the "spiritual preparation" of the teacher(1936, pp. 115-123), and it… |
Sequence 5were the first small children of the San Lorenzo Quarter experiment called "the new children"? It took Dr.… |
Sequence 7The sensorial material is a key to the environment, Dr. Montessori said, but only if we present it for the child to use in the… |
Sequence 13not want to make mistakes about the adolescent program, great care must be taken in implementing it. If Dr. Montessori was… |
Sequence 8the teacher must awaken the spirit of the child. They considered the moral preparation of the teacher to be the key to… |
Sequence 5BACKGROUND OF TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS Teacher Background The two teachers who were trained in Montessori methods, A and B at… |
Sequence 2these "deficient" children, in 1907 she took her new teaching prin- ciples to "normal"… |
Sequence 3In addition to help from her longtime assistants, Helen Parkhurst and Adelia Pyle, Montessori was accompanied by her son,… |
Sequence 4lecture extensively to wider audiences, including a combined session of the 53rd annual convention of the National Education… |
Sequence 9results in "teaching for intelligence." That puts the cart before the horse. If you want to put the cart and… |
Sequence 15If you're a Bell Curve thinker, you think that a quarter of the people don't even have intel- lect and most of… |
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 5234-235). In a Montessori elementary class, the children are allowed to form groups; most of their work is done in groups.… |
Sequence 1ALL-DAY MONTESSORI: NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF THE EXPERIMENT by David Kahn The catch phrase "all-day Montessori&… |
Sequence 1THE CASA OF SEVRES, FRANCE by Margot Waltuch Margot Waltuch's pictorial documentation and personal description of her… |
Sequence 2a way any Montessorian would be pleased to observe and commend. This happened because the Montessori directress was there to… |
Sequence 11matters like eating and resting during the course of the day must be addressed. Should lunch be prepared by the children on… |
Sequence 3As I attempt to share highlights of the students' observations with you, I am reminded of a chapter from Montessori'… |
Sequence 2misleading if it leads someone to believe that cosmic education also applies, or can apply, to other planes of development-… |
Sequence 32University of Vermont, where they held 750 high school Latin stu- dents spellbound in a gym during a presentation at Vermont… |
Sequence 15skills, then you would be bored. The flow experience seems to occur in that diagonal; in fact, it does occur in the diagonal… |
Sequence 1THE PREPARED ENVIRONMENT by Eduardo J. Cuevas In this summary of his workshop session, Eduardo Cuevas explores what really… |
Sequence 25you saturate a child in an environment of so-called logical conse- quences, that child, if he grows up and thinks he can get… |
Sequence 30There is one way to take a bad thing and make it much worse. You're going to have to bring me back sometime for me to… |
Sequence 32But the fact that young children are so hungry for our approval-are they not?-puts an enormous burden on our shoulders not to… |
Sequence 36a different direction, to teach you everything about motivation that I know on one overhead (see Figure 3). It took me a while… |
Sequence 48We do it with infant rooms. "Good clapping!" Please. Fortu- nately, at the infant level they're too… |
Sequence 49set foot in the classroom. And you can tell partly that it's fake because of tones of voice. Three-year-olds can smell a… |
Sequence 6little children, these little four-year-olds and five-year-olds, seven-, eight-, nine-year-olds. They sound like adults when… |
Sequence 7which caused Suzuki to place heavy emphasis on environment over intelligence, and that's why, to be a Suzuki student, he… |
Sequence 8requires it; it requires that we dialogue. If you dialogue, you've got to be culturally salient. I think you will hear in… |
Sequence 14'I don't want to do that anymore. I don't want to pay attention to that anymore.' That's what this is… |
Sequence 8corporate agriculture-farm owners don't want to live where they farm because it's boring, it's dirty; they… |
Sequence 21quite accurate analysis. I think we all have to realize that farms like mine are being destroyed in California. All of my… |
Sequence 2And I said, "What do you mean?" And he said, "Well, you've got this Wal-Mart." Well… |
Sequence 8I thought, "Oh, this is stupid." Then they said, "What are you going to do with these coyotes?… |
Sequence 13Oeconomicus-that one person can take a piece of ground and do something with it and another person simply can't. Believe… |
Sequence 27So you've created a hierarchy. You're judgmental. You have certain values that you think are better. Well, the same… |
Sequence 8THE INTERNATIONAL STUDY CENTRE Since Maria Montessori inaugurated the first Casa dei Bambini in 1907, Montessori schools have… |
Sequence 188. WHICH ADOLESCENTS? If it is true that Montessori education is based on planes of devel- opment which are quite distinct… |
Sequence 26What guarantee, after all, can the Erdkinder community offer parents? There are no existing Erdkinder com- munities (in the… |
Sequence 27tradition of sending adolescents to boarding school. Therefore parents might well ask why they should send their sons and… |
Sequence 31REFERENCES Buys Town. Dir. Norman Taurog. Perf. Spencer Tracy. MGM, 1938. Carroll-Abbing, John Patrick. A Chance to Live:… |
Sequence 13this child showing me?" and you ask the child what he or she likes to do. My nephew attends a Montessori preschool.… |
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 2THE CASADEI BAMBINI: A CENTURY CONCEPT by Elizabeth Hall Elizabeth Hall walks readers through early Montessori history, from… |
Sequence 4This early discovery has continued to be a hallmark of the Montessori approach to child development. Dr. Montessori was… |
Sequence 3The newspapers criticized; Dr. Maria Montessori was asked what she meant by her speech, and she writes that she scarcely knew… |
Sequence 13established in the mind. Our symbolic systems-most of language and all of mathematics-are ways of describing and managing… |
Sequence 2Our children have the right to experience the Casa as a sanctuary where being in the present moment is the perfect blissful… |
Sequence 5• lndirectly prepare for Inter academic work. Mathematical con- cepts are explored, such as estimation and calculation; geo-… |
Sequence 25REFERENCES Montessori, Maria." Advice to Teachers." Montessori Notes [publication ofThe Montessori Society… |
Sequence 5I'm going to suggest today that creative expression is as vital to a human being's development and learning as any… |
Sequence 16Here are a few general ways to make problem solving work for you. First of all, ask more, tell less. Ask more questions,… |
Sequence 33Here are a few general ways to make problem solving work for you. First of all, ask more, tell less. Ask more questions,… |
Sequence 44I'm going to suggest today that creative expression is as vital to a human being's development and learning as any… |
Sequence 50REFERENCES Montessori, Maria." Advice to Teachers." Montessori Notes [publication ofThe Montessori Society… |
Sequence 137• lndirectly prepare for Inter academic work. Mathematical con- cepts are explored, such as estimation and calculation; geo-… |
Sequence 140Our children have the right to experience the Casa as a sanctuary where being in the present moment is the perfect blissful… |
Sequence 200established in the mind. Our symbolic systems-most of language and all of mathematics-are ways of describing and managing… |
Sequence 224The newspapers criticized; Dr. Maria Montessori was asked what she meant by her speech, and she writes that she scarcely knew… |
Sequence 235This early discovery has continued to be a hallmark of the Montessori approach to child development. Dr. Montessori was… |
Sequence 237THE CASADEI BAMBINI: A CENTURY CONCEPT by Elizabeth Hall Elizabeth Hall walks readers through early Montessori history, from… |
Sequence 8activity, children seem refreshed and satisfied. They demonstrate "higher social impulses" (Montessori,… |
Sequence 3Presenters at the Innovation within Limits Seminar E. Thomas Casey, registered architect, came to the Taliesin Fellowship in… |
Sequence 3If we can find evidence in our study that there is a power in man which makes it possible for him to overcome all obstacles… |
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 9Because, even with all the glory and the grandeur of those furnish- ings, the world would have been an unfilled promise, this… |
Sequence 11ing led to the development oflanguages. In order, therefore, to have the world present to the child in his prepared… |
Sequence 11"Oh, well-you mean, don't give them any?" And I said, "Yes, don't give them any problems… |
Sequence 17being is the change agent with regard to the environment, that man has the urge not only to adapt himself to the environment… |
Sequence 8The sensorial material is a key to the environment, Dr. Montessori said, but only if we present it for the child to use in the… |
Sequence 21The level of education must be changed at this point. The adolescent's social formation must now begin, and the… |
Sequence 6Experiences that are fully engaging involve not only a combination of high challenge and high skill, but also opportunities… |