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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 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 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 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 9Because, even with all the glory and the grandeur of those furnish- ings, the world would have been an unfilled promise, this… |
Sequence 2COSMIC SENSE, SENSIBILITY, AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION: FROM CHILDHOOD TO ADOLESCENCE by David Kahn Culminating with poetry… |
Sequence 9what they said; some were pessimistic. The adolescent needs some- thing more than logic to have an optimistic view of… |
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 3connected with economics or service or maintenance of the Erd kinder setting. Movement for the grow- ing young person is a… |
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 2The Hershey Montessori Farm School, Huntsburg, Ohio 270 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 26, No. 3 • Summer 2001 |
Sequence 4Fuu-TJME STAFF David Kahn: program director, administrator, admissjons direc- tor, recruiter, publications director,… |
Sequence 12Student Project Hershey Montessori Farm School Post-Project Evaluation ____________ Date Project Coordinator… |
Sequence 8munities like Montes- sori communities are sometimes criticized for not providing enough peer choices for stu- dents to… |
Sequence 16GEOMETRY AND ERDKINDER by Nathaniel J. McDonald Nate MacDonald's chronicle of his first year of teaching geometry at the… |
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 15THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MONTESSORI HIGH SCHOOL AS AN EXTENSION OF THE FARM SCHOOL by David Kahn and Ron Stewart This very… |
Sequence 16THE MONTESSORI PAST AS PRELUDE TO A MONTESSORI HIGH SCHOOL Montessori adolescent education takes place squarely in the con… |
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 1Ninth-grade students of the Hershey Montessori Farm School attend a lecture at Case Western Reserve University 124 The NAMTA… |
Sequence 2BRINGING THE MONTESSORI THREE-YEAR MULTI-AGE GROUP TO THE ADOLESCENT by David Kahn Speaking from direct experience at The… |
Sequence 1Harvesting tomatoes at Hershey Montessori Farm School 132 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 28, No. J • Winter 2003 |
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 12Mendel's famous pea experiments, explore factors affecting soil mi- crobiology, or develop techniques to maximize crop… |
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 4that if you invented your project without Montessori parameters, your result would not be a Montessori original but a banal… |
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 251that if you invented your project without Montessori parameters, your result would not be a Montessori original but a banal… |
Sequence 2THE MORAL DEVELOPMENT OF ADOLESCENTS: A VIEW FROM THE FARM by Laurie Ewert-Kroeker This article shows the deepening… |
Sequence 4development can be expected or anticipated in adolescent growth? I clearly don't have the answers to these questions,… |
Sequence 2PROJECT 2012: HISTORY WHITHER BOUND FROM CHILDHOOD TO ADOLESCENCE? PHILOSOPHICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PREMISES by David Kahn… |
Sequence 14small steps away from the family. The Hershey Montessori Farm School remains the single Montessori boarding institution… |
Sequence 2A diverse set of challenges faces the architect when trying to facilitate graciousness of movement for dozens, sometimes… |
Sequence 13on Montessori's interpretation of intelligence by Kay Baker, Annette Haines, Kevin Rathunde, and Shannon Helfrich. This… |
Sequence 3REPORTING ON THE "EXPERIMENTAL SCHOOL OF SOCIAL LIFE" Three land experiments were presented as social… |
Sequence 6Farmer Mike and Grandmother Susan, and they took up our hopes and we theirs. Any farm, especially an organic one, is a place… |
Sequence 10cultures, but their outcomes are similar; you might say, therefore, that their outcomes are universal manifestations of the… |
Sequence 24standing of the essentials of a discipline, and the generalist, who needs to build an overview of all the disciplines in their… |
Sequence 1ELEMENTS OF ERDKINDER AT THE FARM SCHOOL by Laurie Ewert-Kroeker Laurie Ewert-Kroeker demonstrates the general orientation… |
Sequence 1ENVISIONING THE WHOLE THIRD PLANE: MONTESSORI ERDKINDER AND URBAN ADOLESCENT PROGRAMS HELP EACH OTHER by David Kahn David… |
Sequence 5Mr. Grazzini did recognize the contribution of urban programs 1 over twenty years in learning about the adolescent from the… |
Sequence 2OCCUPATION PROJECTS, THE MICRO- ECONOMY, AND STUDENT MANAGERS: MEETING THE NEEDS OF ADOLESCENTS by Laurie Ewert-Kroeker… |
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 5exchange on the farm "appears to be a kind of 'supercreation' due to the labor of civilization .... This is… |
Sequence 6This basic principle of Montessori education at all levels under- scores the importance of a deep understanding of Montessori… |
Sequence 8abilities and contributions of staff members. FMES staff members David Ayer and Susan Andree recently had the opportunity to… |
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 1"THE SCHOOL WHERE THE CHILDREN LIVE" by David Ayer and Elise Huneke Stone Da.vid Ayer and Elise Huneke… |
Sequence 2observed: "The proposal we have put forward has, therefore, nothing surprising about it, and there is no need of… |
Sequence 6What we as Montessorians have not had as much opportunity to observe is how young adolescents are transformed when they are… |
Sequence 10adolescents wanted (loud rap music during supervised room clean- ing) and what the houseparent wanted (just about anything… |