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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 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 31the theatrics of Laurence Davies and Bill Cook, Molly brings an old piece of cloth to her telling and she dashes back and… |
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 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 15Open up to nature And enter Yet another world THE FUTURE CHALLENGE: FORMING A NEW CONSCIOUSNESS There needs to be a &… |
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 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 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 9Because, even with all the glory and the grandeur of those furnish- ings, the world would have been an unfilled promise, this… |
Sequence 6in our 1998 report on the project to the AMI Peda- gogical Committee, "The goal for us this year is to… |
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 11ing examples of spontaneous discipline through visiting ex- isting Montessori adolescent programs, consolidating past… |
Sequence 7cultural history when "bigger" was "better." The tradeoff was that bigness meant… |
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 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 15e. 1/ie .JI~ M~ ujaJUH, Schoo-/, THE FARM IN MONTESSORI ADOLESCENT HISTORY: THE FIRST YEAR by Laurie Ewert-Kroeker Laurie… |
Sequence 4Fuu-TJME STAFF David Kahn: program director, administrator, admissjons direc- tor, recruiter, publications director,… |
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 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 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 11This work became a book, In the First Country of Places: Nature, Poetry and Childhood Memory. What I found was that it was… |
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 3I began with origins. I enjoyed the etymology of the word education (from Latin educare, "to draw out"). I… |
Sequence 10Inside the classrooms, we configured the lighting and heating/ cooling ducts to accommodate an open vaulted ceiling rather… |
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 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 7We had a record number of managers this year, our sixth year of operation, which is a situation we are pleased with; the… |
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 5neighbors, and they often had little in common with us other than physical proximity. If a child was seen by a neighbor doing… |
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… |