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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 best response to the objections is to insist on telling the truth. Administrators must have the courage to face the public… |
Sequence 2FOLK TALES, FAIRY TALES, AND HISTORY USES AND CLASSIFICATION by Francesca Claremont 'Jbe article that follows is… |
Sequence 9exception was in one of the Montessori classrooms, where a student, described by her teacher to have a mother addicted to… |
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 4adult and the children, as these expressions of the spirit pour out of their daily experiences of togetherness-their oneness… |
Sequence 6of the intellect for its own sake. The reasoning mind has a much grander task: The work of humanity that always loves more,… |
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 17us listen to the words of Maria Montessori, for she is reminding us that if we can do what we have just been saying, We find… |
Sequence 15With that vision, however, Maria Montessori joins the ranks of the great educational philosophers of all time and gains the… |
Sequence 16Montessori, Maria. "Gott und das Kind." Trans. Helene Helm- ing. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Montessori-… |
Sequence 8REFERENCES Bly, Robert. The Sibling Society. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesely, 1996. Montessori, Maria. The Absorbent Mind. 1949… |
Sequence 16It is important for us not to change the vision of Dr. Montessori by creating a reductive attitude to what we do, by focusing… |
Sequence 31REFERENCES Buys Town. Dir. Norman Taurog. Perf. Spencer Tracy. MGM, 1938. Carroll-Abbing, John Patrick. A Chance to Live:… |
Sequence 15Open up to nature And enter Yet another world THE FUTURE CHALLENGE: FORMING A NEW CONSCIOUSNESS There needs to be a &… |
Sequence 16encode (write) multiple forms of representation creates opportunities for activating, developing, and refining our minds. We… |
Sequence 19Hakim, Joy. "Reading, Writing, and ... History." History Mat- ters! (May 1996): 19 pars. 1 Dec. 1998 <… |
Sequence 10birth of new life. "The personality of the mother," she observes, "is characterized by this: with… |
Sequence 6The current spiritual renaissance, even outside traditional reli- gious institutions, shows the necessity and the desire of… |
Sequence 17not yet fully formed: he has not yet gathered about him the last folds of his robe of flesh and of love which is made up of… |
Sequence 22Tire Earthworm. Haughley, Suffolk: The Soil Association, n.d. Fil kin, David. Stephen Hawking's Universe. New York: Basic… |
Sequence 16The human is a great collaborator. And nature welcomes a gentle intervention. The trees' wounds will heal, and the maple… |
Sequence 14jZr JIJ II e r ~ J ~ ~ J =i Hu - mu - hu - mu - nu - cu - nu - cu - a - pu - a. This, in turn, attracted the attention of… |
Sequence 11She "jumped off" into new territory without having a plan in place-and let her commitment to fighting for… |
Sequence 25Montessori, Maria. The Absorbent Mind. 1949. Madras, India: Kalakshetra, 1992. Montessori, Maria. The Child in the Family.… |
Sequence 9initially shown spontaneous interest, quickly lose that interest. They now realize that rewards reduce a child's desire… |
Sequence 18initially shown spontaneous interest, quickly lose that interest. They now realize that rewards reduce a child's desire… |
Sequence 99Montessori, Maria. The Absorbent Mind. 1949. Madras, India: Kalakshetra, 1992. Montessori, Maria. The Child in the Family.… |
Sequence 228She "jumped off" into new territory without having a plan in place-and let her commitment to fighting for… |
Sequence 12<lures, and plans. She guides, but does not control, the school's development. • The administrator leads by… |
Sequence 9Because, even with all the glory and the grandeur of those furnish- ings, the world would have been an unfilled promise, this… |
Sequence 30REFERENCES Gross, Michael. Montessori' s Concept of Personality. Diss. U of Nebraska, 1976. Livingstone, Richard.… |
Sequence 29purpose. That means precisely that history and its purpose cannot make sense to a community without a purpose. If there is no… |
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 13burden for a child to be "bad" or "good." We must relieve every child of that burden and… |
Sequence 17REFERENCES The Adolescent Colloquium: Summary of the Proceedings. Cleveland, OH: Montessori Teacher Education Collabo-… |
Sequence 9· "My first day of Middle School ... " • "Elementary school was the ... " · "My… |
Sequence 30Graves, Donald. "Making Meaning Clear: The Logic of Revision." Journal of Basic Writing (1981, Fall/Winter… |
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 4ization: Theory and Research. Ed. D. Goslin. New York: Rand McNally, 1969. Kohlberg, L., & C. Gilligan. "The… |
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 7together and pull other people into their goals such as Greenpeace. Do you know how efficient recycling would be if only one… |
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 134. To encourage the students to explore their widening world and to consider themselves as responsible citizens of our… |
Sequence 13• Values and Attitudes Having worked with all of the above models that explore Place as Pedagogy, it is easy to applaud the… |
Sequence 3really meant is often arduous work and could potentially make prac- tical implementation more complicated, but in our desire… |
Sequence 4Fuu-TJME STAFF David Kahn: program director, administrator, admissjons direc- tor, recruiter, publications director,… |
Sequence 12THE FUTURE OF ERO KINDER The school where the children live, or rather their country homes, can also give them the… |
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 16physical environment and our attitudinal environment. Once chil- dren pass their first birthday, we generally treat them… |
Sequence 13who is psychologically healthy with a strong sense of self, a strong sense of who and what they are and what they can do. We… |
Sequence 10Hopefully this weekend has given you a little renewal of this vision. I want to give you two quotes. One is from E.M. Standing… |
Sequence 9and three. But what we need to do is assess the ones that are develop- mentally appropriate in our assessment of this child… |
Sequence 15REFERENCES Cavalletti, Sofia. II potenziale religioso tra i 6 e i 12 anni. Trans. Rebekah Rojcewicz. Rome: Citta Nuova… |
Sequence 14REFERENCES Berry, Wendell. Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community. New York: Pantheon Press, 1992. Berry, Wendell. Recollected… |
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 19Hoffman, E. Visions of Innocence. Boston: Shambhala Pub- lications, 1992. Huchingson, J. E. (Ed.) Religion and the Natural… |
Sequence 20out the process that there is really only one core objective that you should seek to realize: Incorporate as wide a variety as… |
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… |