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Sequence 1TRANSITION: URBAN MONTESSORI SECONDARY TO ERDKINDER by David Kahn A survey of the current Montessori urban secondary… |
Sequence 17Boehnlein, Mary. (1984). A study of college/uruversity accredited Montessori teacher training programs. NAMTA Quarterly, 9, 49… |
Sequence 1A TIME TO READ By Peggy Kahn All children have to start at the beginning, exploring first what they can reach out and touch… |
Sequence 15Footnotes 'Maria Montessori (1948) To Educate the Human Potential 5th Edition 1973, Kalakshetra Publica- tions Press,… |
Sequence 2the use of video-taped observations. She also depended on the random- ness of the assignment of the children to compensate for… |
Sequence 4The sick body draws itself, the "body without organs" of the philoso- phers illustrates itself, evicted,… |
Sequence 2for uniting the family and the school with a passionate plea for respect- ing the culture of the home, especially the culture… |
Sequence 2for uniting the family and the school with a passionate plea for respect- ing the culture of the home, especially the culture… |
Sequence 8new point of view, he can easily verify it by observing his own child. As Csikszentmihalyi points out, "The rapt c.… |
Sequence 9point was part of my standard spiel for parents-but &om my new perspective, I discovered again that it is the level of… |
Sequence 6coverage in the Washington Post. NAMTA, with its specialization in media, will manage the publications and videos resulting… |
Sequence 12coverage in the Washington Post. NAMTA, with its specialization in media, will manage the publications and videos resulting… |
Sequence 1EDITORIAL REINVENTING MONTESSORI: PERILS AND POSSIBILITIES by David Kahn To what degree is the fundamental test of… |
Sequence 14NAMTANEWs The Montessori Academy Is Full A new kind of summer program intended to encourage depth, The Montessori Academy… |
Sequence 8sensitive period pertinent to each age group, activity, and spontaneous passing into abstraction were possible for the… |
Sequence 1REsHAPING EARLY CHIIDHOOD INrnRVENTION To BE A MoRE EFFECTIVE WEAPON AGAINST POVER1Y by Edward Zigler, PhD Drawing on his… |
Sequence 1F~I'-------------------- BREAKTHROUGH IN EvoLunoN: TowARD A PARTNERSIDP FUITJRE by Riane Eisler Jn The Chalice and… |
Sequence 3phasic plan converging on maturity: the maturity of children, the matu- rity of teachers and parents, the maturity of… |
Sequence 13Mary: I allow my little boy to dress in the kitchen. Usually he wants to stay near me at the start of the day. Sally: I… |
Sequence 1NAMTA's MONTESSORI ADOLESCENT PROJECT The spirit and energy currently surrounding work toward Montessori adolescent… |
Sequence 1This is the first year of NAMT A's Administrators' Group, an attempt to forge stronger relationships between… |
Sequence 3Although there is no genealogical link to the Montessori world, several Montessori educators, including David Kahn, executive… |
Sequence 10more appropriate path. Both programs provide specific behavioral suggestions for leaders that may provide helpful scaffolding… |
Sequence 9personnel, we had seven storytellers. The list of storytellers during those two years was wide-ranging: • Rod Alexander,… |
Sequence 1EVOLUTION AND FLOW by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Dr. Csikszentmihalyi presents his theory of "flow" in the… |
Sequence 1FOREWORD: FINDING FLOW IN MONTESSORI Imagine a river in time, a time span of one hundred years. On the one side there is… |
Sequence 1FLOW AND EDUCATION by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi PART ONE David [Kahn] is right. I told him that everybody should call me Mike… |
Sequence 3covery, an interpretation, and an approach-a dynamic understand- ing of the child-and not a recipe. Too often our students… |
Sequence 1INTEGRATING CSIKSZENTMIHALYI AND MONTESSORI by Chulanganee Fernando As a tribute to Dr. Csikszentmihalyi's work, Ms.… |
Sequence 2The picture of the normalized child I like best is the one Dr. Montessori gives in The Secret of Childhood (1936/1966): The… |
Sequence 4For elementary children, Miss Stephenson says, "Put your head down and give the lessons; give the lessons!"… |
Sequence 137. The relationship between adolescent and teacher should be established by the teacher's respect for the adolescent:… |
Sequence 8a sense of freedom. There is a preference for work that is freely chosen (Csikszentmihalyi, 1997, p. 27). We see attention to… |
Sequence 2SELF AND EVOLUTION by Mihaly Csikszentrnihalyi Current views of evolution presented at the Epic of Evolution conference… |
Sequence 5Figure 1 suggests that the vision and understanding of Erdkinder must come through a variety of pathways, beginning with… |
Sequence 6Montessori tells us that the adolescent wants to experience roles in society outside of the family. In order to create… |
Sequence 1EVOLUTION OF ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi states that "growing up"… |
Sequence 12likelier to have more rewarding relationships with their mothers and fathers than the bored. This should not be surprising,… |
Sequence 2DISCOVERING THE REAL SPIRITUAL CHILD (PART 1) by Sofia Cavalletti Sofia Cavalletti cites Montessori's description of… |
Sequence 1t ~ ----------------------- FINDING THE ARTIST WITHIN: A CHALLENGE FOR MONTESSORIANS by David Kahn In March, 1998, NAMTA… |
Sequence 9hearts (131). This was in 1949. It is just as true-perhaps truer-in 1999, fifty years later! Our job as educators is to aid… |
Sequence 4Six-year-old girls dressed in white aprons and scarves are making no-bake cookies in the public kindergarten class of… |
Sequence 1THE CHILD AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT by Molly O'Shaughnessy Molly O'Shaughnessy has written a definitive article… |
Sequence 123THE CHILD AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT by Molly O'Shaughnessy Molly O'Shaughnessy has written a definitive article… |
Sequence 175Six-year-old girls dressed in white aprons and scarves are making no-bake cookies in the public kindergarten class of… |
Sequence 2POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY: THE EMERGING PARADIGM by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Positive Psychology takes the focus off… |
Sequence 22Q: Do you think that a child absorbed in a video game is in Flow? A: Yes, they can be in Flow, and usually they stay in Flow… |
Sequence 2MONTESSORI IN EARLY CHILDHOOD: POSITIVE OUTCOMES ALONG SOCIAL, MORAL, COGNITIVE, AND EMOTIONAL DIMENSIONS by Annette M.… |
Sequence 3Presenters at the Innovation within Limits Seminar E. Thomas Casey, registered architect, came to the Taliesin Fellowship in… |
Sequence 23reality directly without assuming that all truth lies with their founders. They need to take responsibility for the… |
Sequence 4All of those present could probably concur with the concluding remark made by Frances Nemtin, an original member of the… |
Sequence 8Thanks to Charlene Trochta, Charlotte Kovach Shea, Carol Alver, Sanford Jones; thanks to David Kahn and everyone else who… |
Sequence 23REFERENCES Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, & Kevin Rathunde. "The Devel- opment of the Person: An Experiential… |
Sequence 20on and found their children strikingly independent, good natured, and well adjusted. Two regional papers, including the… |
Sequence 5language and have this language elicited from them, they will acquire emotional, physical, and intellectual independence.… |
Sequence 5The Montessori classroom functions on the general principle that each child has an innate passion to learn, is indeed driven… |
Sequence 13burden for a child to be "bad" or "good." We must relieve every child of that burden and… |
Sequence 22overall melody and intonation. It's just like perceiving music. Chil- dren really are quite good at perceiving music.… |
Sequence 20What happened? What made this unique culture? I've argued, and I think I can make the argument very briefly this morning… |
Sequence 6respond to this need? How does one develop a sense of identity? As John McNamara has often said, the answer lies in… |
Sequence 13REFERENCES Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, & Barbara Schneider. Becoming Adult: How Teenagers Prepare for the World of Work… |
Sequence 24progression of mathematical concepts from Algebra I to Algebra II to Trigonometry, culminating in Calculus. Mr. Miller also… |
Sequence 12in the sequence of activities, stronger mentoring relationships and community ties, and multifaceted tasks and problems that… |
Sequence 17human physiology, one's skeletal and muscular makeup as structure, and the air and food that run through the system as… |
Sequence 20Identity. Fields are created partially from creative and productive individuals who derive flow from particular activities;… |
Sequence 6Balancing Creativity and Service Although creativity and social service may seem dichotomous notions, it is the combination… |
Sequence 2THE Gooo WORK by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi INTRODUCTION Dr. Csikszentmihaly incisively defines soul "as a person… |
Sequence 6at the same time point to possibilities to which our biologi- cal inheritance is not yet sensitive. The sensate deals with… |
Sequence 9(although this may well be- come a thirty-minute period as fitness levels rise). The time scheduled for the fitness… |
Sequence 1PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, AND EDUCATIONAL GOALS FOR THE MONTESSORI ADOLESCENT, AGES TWELVE TO FIFTEEN by David Kahn This… |
Sequence 11"This," she said, "is our hope-a hope in a new humanity that will come from this new education, an… |
Sequence 2THE EVOLVING NATIJRE OF WORK by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Beginning with a definition of work built around a systems view of… |
Sequence 22have that prejudice. But I think so-called normal children, who, as you know, are not normal, don't know that. They think… |
Sequence 1THE Goon WORK by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Researching the working lives of geneticists and journalists, Dr. Csikszentmihalyi… |
Sequence 9Of course, all of these three need to be done with joy and engage- ment. You know, if the kids don't enjoy doing it, if… |
Sequence 13You know, children who grew upon farms used to learn that. They knew that if they didn't get up at four or five in the… |
Sequence 2BUILDINGS THAT NURTURE by Victor Sidy Using principles of Frank Lloyd Wright and Maria Montessori, Victor Sidy has created a… |
Sequence 10Inside the classrooms, we configured the lighting and heating/ cooling ducts to accommodate an open vaulted ceiling rather… |
Sequence 7baby to fall in Jove with one another (Uvnas-Moberg). Thus breastfeeding assists the baby in becoming pleasure tolerant and… |
Sequence 2its foundation a kind of "psychic hygiene" which helps men to grow up in a good mental health. (34) This… |
Sequence 3Csikszentmihalyi listed the conditions of the flow experience as follows (8): 1. Goals Are Clear: One knows at every moment… |
Sequence 4THE MARRIAGE OF FLOW AND NORMALIZATION The introduction of flow into the Montessori culture has had an invigorating effect.… |
Sequence 5measuring levels of engagement. NAMTA plans to explore flow in relation to all stages of development as well as to review best… |
Sequence 10REFERENCES Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. "Flow and Education." The NAMT A Journal 22.2 (1997, Spring): 3-35.… |
Sequence 4for The NAMT A Journal outlining three connections between Montessori education and optimal experience theory: (1) an… |
Sequence 2NAMTA's MIDDLE SCHOOL RESEARCH HITS THE MARK by Annette M. Haines I have finally had the privilege of reading Kevin… |
Sequence 3mihalyi, The Social Context) concludes that Montessori students have more positive perceptions of their school environment and… |
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 4Goal theory and optimal experience theory link well to Montessori pedagogy. Goal theory identifies two kinds of goals: task… |
Sequence 4greater feeling of emotional/ psychological safety (i.e., not being put down by teachers or students). (21) I wonder if these… |
Sequence 18child who stands before us with his arms held open, beckoning humanity to follow. (118-119) Thank you. REFERENCES… |
Sequence 5We like to think of Patagonia as a one-hundred-year company; in all our planning, we think one hundred years out. There isn… |
Sequence 13It must be stressed that this stage is of the utmost importance both for the young children and for those who emer school at… |
Sequence 2THE ADOLESCENT AND THE f AMILY: LOVE AND LIMITS by Linda Davis Linda Davis characterizes the adolescent's time in life… |
Sequence 12Montessori, Maria. "A New Education for the Secondary School: A Public Lecture Given at Utrecht, January 18, 1937 (… |
Sequence 2PROJECT 2012: HISTORY WHITHER BOUND FROM CHILDHOOD TO ADOLESCENCE? PHILOSOPHICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PREMISES by David Kahn… |
Sequence 9I would like to take a moment to acknowledge NAMTA, and its officers past and present. NAMT A has, it seems to me, offered to… |
Sequence 15I take a great interest in the children's grandparents. Once asked, they love to talk or write about their grandparents… |
Sequence 1THE 2005 NAMTA MONTESSORI SCHOOL SALARY SURVEY Interpretation and analysis by David Kahn, John McNamara, and Kristin Sasaki… |
Sequence 14Surprisingly, in some cases median administrator salaries are actually lower than the median salaries of teachers with… |