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Sequence 10self-evident and emotionally satisfying, and the child is never left wondering, uwhat is the point of all this?" We… |
Sequence 10self-evident and emotionally satisfying, and the child is never left wondering, uwhat is the point of all this?" We… |
Sequence 1OF ROOTS AND WINGS by David Kahn A philosophical outlook on the parent's role in Montessm-i, educa- tion, this article… |
Sequence 7I strongly urge Montessori directors and directresses to collect com- ments by their students on Montessori education. I began… |
Sequence 1THE BOTANICAL CARDS by Mario M. Montessori This insightful article illustrates the underlying developmental principles which… |
Sequence 15Footnotes 'Maria Montessori (1948) To Educate the Human Potential 5th Edition 1973, Kalakshetra Publica- tions Press,… |
Sequence 3scale, another time computing the relative distances between the plan- ets to a scale that would fit in the classroom. The… |
Sequence 1INTRODUCING LUCIANO MAZZETTI Luciano Mazzetti Dr. uuciano Mazzetti is the president of the International Montes- sori Center… |
Sequence 9The Montessori idea is unfinished by design. Some complain that the curriculum presented in Montessori training is incomplete… |
Sequence 1RESPONSE TO GENEROUS UNDERSTANDING: KNOWING OURSELVES AND EACH OTHER by Charles Torranova I want to thank David Kahn for… |
Sequence 5Although externally her life was affected by political forces, within she remained detached as this statement indicates: Not… |
Sequence 11&location must be considered as most imponant; for as diseases in the world of bodies are extremely contagious, so, in… |
Sequence 14this principle in this way will surely make a difference in our world. In The Promulgation of Universal Peace, 'Abdu… |
Sequence 8The adolescents may choose to design the garden for community ser- vice: to beautify the city; to provide flowers to nursing… |
Sequence 10PROGRAM DESCRIPTION SAMPLER 7bese pragmattc descriptions of adolescent program components which provide an operational view… |
Sequence 14NAMTANEWs The Montessori Academy Is Full A new kind of summer program intended to encourage depth, The Montessori Academy… |
Sequence 2concrete, real, and relevant to the lives of young children; (5) provid- ing experiences for children that are outside of the… |
Sequence 10Teachers have to know strategies that concern their own move- ments. "The teacher should study her own movements, to… |
Sequence 2It is complex-not simply taught, but demanding continuous study and investigation of all aspects of life. It is complex… |
Sequence 166It is complex-not simply taught, but demanding continuous study and investigation of all aspects of life. It is complex… |
Sequence 176Teachers have to know strategies that concern their own move- ments. "The teacher should study her own movements, to… |
Sequence 184concrete, real, and relevant to the lives of young children; (5) provid- ing experiences for children that are outside of the… |
Sequence 5To the Montessori "bleachers" the serving of the luncheon of milk and crackers is the most interesting part… |
Sequence 3misery as it does in prosperity, in oppression as in freedom, in war as in peace, and that he did not really know what life is… |
Sequence 12At birth-before words, language, abstract reasoning, cognitive patterning, and conceptual thinking-were images. The brain… |
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 7"potentialities which determine his development"; "there exists within this inert being a global… |
Sequence 21full control of all one's energies, which is the result of the maturation that has been reached. The Four Planes In her… |
Sequence 22ergies that are repressed lead to inferiority complexes, the weakening of personality, lack of responsibility, listlessness,… |
Sequence 32Mon te.:;sori has drawn in the middle of her chart, between the drawing above and that below, between "nature&… |
Sequence 10self-evident and emotionally satisfying, and the child is never left wondering, "What is the point of all this?&… |
Sequence 31the theatrics of Laurence Davies and Bill Cook, Molly brings an old piece of cloth to her telling and she dashes back and… |
Sequence 4he thinks he can go anywhere, and the urge to explore and discover his world has to be limited rather than pushed. Motivation… |
Sequence 1DIGGING DOWN DEEP: EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES WITH THE EARTH IN A GARDENING/FARMING CONTEXT by Emily Starr Eden Emily Eden… |
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 1Introduction MARIO MONTESSORI: IN SEARCH OF A DEEPER FREEDOM A LIFE 1 S JOURNEY OF EDUCATIONAL IDEAS by David Kahn When… |
Sequence 3where we - d with t and spi• At the time, Dr. Montessori and I cer- tainly felt the inner burden of the situation. It was… |
Sequence 2PEDAGOGY OF PLACE: BECOMING ERDKINDER THE MONTESSORI FARM SCHOOL PROGRAM DESIGN POSITION STATEMENT by David Kahn and Laurie… |
Sequence 3In the Erdkinder, the cosmic vision of the Montessori elementary years is made more conscious, more concrete. It is… |
Sequence 96In the Erdkinder, the cosmic vision of the Montessori elementary years is made more conscious, more concrete. It is… |
Sequence 97PEDAGOGY OF PLACE: BECOMING ERDKINDER THE MONTESSORI FARM SCHOOL PROGRAM DESIGN POSITION STATEMENT by David Kahn and Laurie… |
Sequence 11this idea on its head, she once commented at a gathering to honor her, "The highest honor and the deepest gratitude… |
Sequence 6in our 1998 report on the project to the AMI Peda- gogical Committee, "The goal for us this year is to… |
Sequence 11ing examples of spontaneous discipline through visiting ex- isting Montessori adolescent programs, consolidating past… |
Sequence 7<lards, she has a stable air about her. She is able to be respectful of the role of adults who work side by side with… |
Sequence 9Afterward: Extending beyond the six weeks was continued work on refining their mission statements in preparation for… |
Sequence 8Everything about the children ment clearly urges middle schools to has a history, and if the stu- transform the fundamental… |
Sequence 6have not had Montessori Our thoughts were that those children would be very carefully selected, certainly not children with… |
Sequence 4Joosten: I don't think there is a yes or a no. Is it either or? There is a blend. We can't go outside to an… |
Sequence 1The Montessori Erd- The Montessori Erdkinder, insofar as it kinder concept is far from a is a home away from home for the… |
Sequence 5For all that, I thought it must be possible to apply certain funda- mental principles of the Montessori method to secondary… |
Sequence 32from fairly affluent families who ran away from home for the thrill of becoming street musicians and earnjng a few pennies on… |
Sequence 15e. 1/ie .JI~ M~ ujaJUH, Schoo-/, THE FARM IN MONTESSORI ADOLESCENT HISTORY: THE FIRST YEAR by Laurie Ewert-Kroeker Laurie… |
Sequence 3OccUPATIONS AND THE FARM by Laurie Ewert-Kroeker The word occupation is a Montessori term which the Farm School has adopted… |
Sequence 7environment can assist with? By offering opportunities to function without parents-to take care of self, one another, the… |
Sequence 8munities like Montes- sori communities are sometimes criticized for not providing enough peer choices for stu- dents to… |
Sequence 17with this rebirth in Montessori geometry, I set out to design an Erdkinder approach that would incorporate the concreteness of… |
Sequence 19and basic algebra. Therefore, the next stage of mathematics must use and develop this power of abstraction. The second… |
Sequence 35involves higher-level reasoning skills to arrive at a conclusion with concrete reality serving as a kind of control of error… |
Sequence 8• Different kinds of figures · Parts of a circle • Circumference: derivation of pi • Area of a circle • Equivalence • Area… |
Sequence 19(Bergamo, Italy), the Farm School provides the basis for continuing authentic Montessori education through the end of high… |
Sequence 20farm's natural and human-made environment asan optimal environ- ment in which adolescents assume various roles that… |
Sequence 2forty-five years prior to any of the early brain research on the potentials of children under three. So once again she was a… |
Sequence 5middle, and end for five different cycles. So how does this work with the adolescent? In the beginning, the seventh-grade… |
Sequence 7When the adolescents achieve this social independence, they are ready for high school. They are insightful about new friends.… |
Sequence 10Inside the classrooms, we configured the lighting and heating/ cooling ducts to accommodate an open vaulted ceiling rather… |
Sequence 4ables him to grow, teaches him to speak, and thus perfects him" (The Secret of Childhood 36). It was Betty… |
Sequence 7If our job is to aid the development of adolescents on the path to adulthood, it would seem important that our moral precepts… |
Sequence 11Montessori' sown term for this level of acceptance-this profound sense of worth and belonging-was valorization. One… |
Sequence 14small steps away from the family. The Hershey Montessori Farm School remains the single Montessori boarding institution… |
Sequence 1ELEMENTS OF ERDKINDER AT THE FARM SCHOOL by Laurie Ewert-Kroeker Laurie Ewert-Kroeker demonstrates the general orientation… |
Sequence 2we consider in setting up a prepared environment for the first and second planes of development. Here are some of the aspects… |
Sequence 4The restrictions and the rules that we have come up with for the running of the program are there to ensure that the triangle… |
Sequence 5adolescent, so it naturally has to be one of the fundamental elements of an adolescent program. The second element Montessori… |
Sequence 6we all need to know to understand our time, our culture, and the nature of humanity and where it's heading. Of course… |
Sequence 8practical chores makes the urban program a critical testing ground for new ideas that emerge from the land-based programs in a… |
Sequence 1Laurie Ewert-Kroeker instructs students at the Farm School 78 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 31, No. I • Winter 2006 |
Sequence 3You see, we wanted, more than anything else, to make the work upon the land real, rather than metaphorical. We had set this as… |
Sequence 6This basic principle of Montessori education at all levels under- scores the importance of a deep understanding of Montessori… |
Sequence 7The evaporative pond inspires chemistry; the greenhouse evokes physics. To provide structure for the adults as well as the… |
Sequence 4than the family" (69), provides opportunities for a young person to take initiative, assume responsibility, and even… |
Sequence 6What we as Montessorians have not had as much opportunity to observe is how young adolescents are transformed when they are… |
Sequence 7gram at which the students spent one day a week working on a small farm. Just when we finally admitted that we couldn't… |
Sequence 9And what happens when young adolescents are given this pre- pared environment? They have an integrity that I believe can only… |
Sequence 10adolescents wanted (loud rap music during supervised room clean- ing) and what the houseparent wanted (just about anything… |
Sequence 11of the day students as well. Though they were sometimes not the majority in terms of numbers, the boarding students were… |
Sequence 8What I often hear from our graduates, ones whom I consider "valorized," are statements like: "I… |
Sequence 7As we have seen, adolescence on that chart (Figure 1) is a divided plane but, in the case of adolescence, there is a problem I… |
Sequence 4curriculum while the twelve- to fifteen-year-olds explore the world from their own familiar place. Students at the farm… |
Sequence 18Anyone who works with adolescents knows that they have feel- ings, strong feelings, angry feelingsr loving feelings, but most… |
Sequence 6Botanical Garden in the development of adolescent respon- siveness to the impact of urban sprawl on the natural world; • the… |
Sequence 14• Meeting local oral historians · Historical gardens • Overall regional history promotion and special events management •… |
Sequence 20:;i (1) ~ ~ ~ ~ i:: i -!'>- Iv Educational Syllabus for Erdkinder: Ages 12-15 A.Practical Considerations… |
Sequence 7So opportunities for engagement in nature need to be right outside the door and continue beyond the building. Here are some… |
Sequence 149m l~1:.11i, ''I ll I l I i,, -,1, I I IHJ 111 J Playing the didgeridoo, Wadja Wadja High School, 2005… |
Sequence 5011 Responsibility Here at the Farm School we have two kinds of responsibili- ties; you are responsible for yourself and your… |
Sequence 6In this book we shall consider the different stages of human de- velopment and try to understand their significance with the… |
Sequence 68. Prepare yourself for the birthi11g of your child. You may want to consider taking a birthing class and think about your… |
Sequence 13cent Springs). Schools often provide a list of local resources and referrals for evaluation. 10. Sometimes a student can be… |
Sequence 1HELPING MONTESSORI EDUCATORS REACH ALL KINDS OF MINDS by Mary Jo Dunnington Schools Attuned is one of a suite of… |