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Sequence 1THE FARM EXPERIENCE: ITS IMPORTANCE IN A CHILD'S LIFE by Richard Barker Richard Barker's perceptive correlations… |
Sequence 411. Were you a different person at different times in your life? 12. In what cities have you lived? 13. What was your and/or… |
Sequence 686 it probably kept happening for a long time. And whatever it was, we know that it made the boy feel very cold. One day the… |
Sequence 11love, patience, and individual bonding with the children needed to be there because the adolescent was in a sense… |
Sequence 6What about a new student? I can use the following comment from a new sixth grade girl. To me a Montessori school is a very… |
Sequence 18syndrome may take months, even years, to develop), and, until symp- toms are present, one can never be certain whethel'… |
Sequence 1WHEN THE KIDS FIGHT HOW TO INTERVENE HELPFULLY By Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish have written… |
Sequence 3weeks befol"e I found out what was happening. They finally admitted to me that they were banging on the wall between… |
Sequence 3Baylol", Byrd: I don't remembel' which book l found fil'st, but since then, it's become an… |
Sequence 11high in the history of music, but it is, as my chorus director opined, a "sweet piece." (I've made what… |
Sequence 2School?;• and to be very much conscious of what we were trying to accomplish. The children became Montessorians. If treated… |
Sequence 6that of the father; it is a fear of being helpless in the face of disaster- helpless to protect one's children-and again… |
Sequence 9behavior by males is absolutely unknown in the animal kingdom except in chimps and humans. So if one is interested in the… |
Sequence 7satisfying relationships and of passing on that ability to their children. But in unstable homes, where parents, often single… |
Sequence 2not exist externally in nature, but were essentially insrrwnents of the mind. We also knew that it was crucial to make… |
Sequence 1COAUTION OF ~ENTIAL SCHOOLS by Michael Goldman In straight-forward language, Michael Goldman challenges the conference to… |
Sequence 5oversee. I became daddy for 15 kids, something that also is built into the structure of the school. But within that advisory… |
Sequence 6I think is missing, and I chink ic' s missing on a massive scale even within some very valuable instructional methods. A… |
Sequence 4"textbooked" it, but only rarely did we cast it, in terms of intriguing and interesting questions. So, if… |
Sequence 5kind of question, one subject matter, others are engaged by another set. You know that when you want to get a group of kids… |
Sequence 3talk about these things in a much more differentiated way. It's not just their changing or their not changing; they are… |
Sequence 7There was an article by Selma Wasserman in the Phi Delta Kappan some years ago called, ''The Gifted Can't Weigh… |
Sequence 8what happens when we challenge a person who is already a problem solver to be a problem solver. We may increase doubt in that… |
Sequence 10into the depth of that information. I came across an American Indian scholar who has more information on Indians than I have… |
Sequence 12The Struggle to Restructure This, chen, brings me to my ninth point. It seems to me chat at the fundamental levd, school… |
Sequence 2GL. How best do you see us helping children, especially the adolescents who are moving towards taking their place in the… |
Sequence 5TB. It's an awakening experience that children have when they are very young. When you see animals and young humans, they… |
Sequence 9GL. So is there a place there then for, say, the humanities? TB. Well, definitely. GL. You've talked about the face that… |
Sequence 12GL. Now, what about traditional spiritual values? We don't have religion in our schools any more, and it seems chat we… |
Sequence 6of my first smokdess year I had lost the urge. And now, to tell you the truth, I find cigarette smoke positively offensive. I… |
Sequence 3by changing inner and external threats, muse be able co resist and recov- er our essential stability if disorganized. One… |
Sequence 2he had also been identified as learning disabled. He resented being taken out of the classroom for tutoring sessions several… |
Sequence 8sensitive periods. These givens are powered by a kind of life force energy that she called horme. With the powers infants and… |
Sequence 4At the same time, there's an emphasis on the children understanding their relationship to society. There is a respect for… |
Sequence 13I remember Margaret Stephenson talking in training about the idea of total reading. She defined it as understanding the… |
Sequence 19Over the years, I have used these games with children from a broad socio-economic range, and I'm always pleased to… |
Sequence 5test tales in which you must listen and then repeat it exactly, never saying "a" when you should say &… |
Sequence 17The other type is contagious magic, which says that things once in contact are always in contact. Now, that is at the root of… |
Sequence 1THE PEDAGOGY OF TIME by Lawrence Schaefer, PhD Larry Scbaefer's keynote lecture at the 1993 Summer Institute, History as… |
Sequence 1THE GREAT STORY OF AI.ExA.NoRJA by John Wyatt, PhD Strange,~ I've been watching here, captured in the sounds and… |
Sequence 3REINVENTING CIVILITY by Lawrence Schaefer, PhD Dr. Schaefer calls for "a renaissance in civility," a return… |
Sequence 4and intolerance of others-especially others who are or appear differ- ent. There are the universal put-downs, the hurtful and… |
Sequence 56and intolerance of others-especially others who are or appear differ- ent. There are the universal put-downs, the hurtful and… |
Sequence 57REINVENTING CIVILITY by Lawrence Schaefer, PhD Dr. Schaefer calls for "a renaissance in civility," a return… |
Sequence 4adolescents I work with, discussions, reflections, and lessons on the fundamental spiritual and physical needs of humans often… |
Sequence 3The first reason has to do with scholarship based on the old model. Consider the recent book The Bell Curve (Herrnstein &… |
Sequence 5like me came to say that we're human beings, we're not just calcula- tors to fit into IBM jobs, we're human… |
Sequence 7was a cognitive psychologist he was a biologist, so maybe there's something about watching growing things that makes you… |
Sequence 8infants. In fact, they do it prenatally, that's what we now know. They're not tabulae rasae; they never were tabulae… |
Sequence 9In coming to this bigger model, this bigger metaphor, I'm trying to fish around for people who seem to have their hands… |
Sequence 11another person until they got to be seven years old. That's called decentering. You start out egocentric so that you… |
Sequence 13Let's take a brief look at someone else. Marian Dobbert and Betty Cooke (1987) at the University of Minnesota have taken… |
Sequence 14story? The brain knows that the spiritual feelings that people have are important. You have to deal with that in some way. In… |
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 2We might now continue our conversation with Montessori: "Now that you have returned to your studies, what are you… |
Sequence 4These graces have every opportunity to be exercised and imple- mented because the children are free to act, free to choose,… |
Sequence 9each plane, is where children have opportunities to engage in and implement their expanding humanness, this hierarchical… |
Sequence 7schools. We've visited a few and they seemed good enough. Good enough, in fact, that we even put in applications… |
Sequence 13with what had become a luscious, teeming mountain of fertilizer and abundance. He looked up from a vast shovel-full, and,… |
Sequence 25unique. Even the staunchest believer in The One Right Way had a hard time choosing. Enunciation exercises These offer an… |
Sequence 23back, he was so embarrassed that he would lurk about in misery in our kitchen just outside the classroom. Ruthlessly, he began… |
Sequence 1FLOW AND EDUCATION by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi PART ONE David [Kahn] is right. I told him that everybody should call me Mike… |
Sequence 2because I was born outside of there. One of my cousins who was there sent me a picture of the entrance gate to the school of… |
Sequence 12little defensive self, but you are part of something bigger, larger. If you sing in a choir or play with a group, a symphony… |
Sequence 13The interesting thing is that when those conditions are there, people tend to want to do what they did to get that feeling,… |
Sequence 19they are so remote that they have really nothing to do with this moment, this class, this particular moment of the day. Your… |
Sequence 23probably do it quite well, from what I can see, and that's not a problem in your type of schooling. The other thing to… |
Sequence 25made a miserable passage in the slow part of that movement." He went back to play the second part of the concert and… |
Sequence 7things you could do. One is increasing complexity; the other, going back to your skill level and not taking on the new… |
Sequence 19evolving society around us. That can be done through things like education, through the program you are doing, but also… |
Sequence 21Q: Do you think it's actually possible to directly teach people to make the optimum choice when their skill levels and… |
Sequence 1FLOW AND CREATIVITY by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi PART 1 Thank you. Yes, it's difficult in a way to talk about creativity… |
Sequence 6becomes clear. But the point is that you can't have that insight unless you have prepared for it for a long time. And… |
Sequence 3covery, an interpretation, and an approach-a dynamic understand- ing of the child-and not a recipe. Too often our students… |
Sequence 9and working with are basically the topic for this morning. I'm going to go over them quickly now and then come back to… |
Sequence 12is a child who in many cases has already been over-controlled- though not always. In any case, the last thing that child needs… |
Sequence 13Methods of Working with Basically, the methods that I'm putting on the other side of this ledger begin with what I'… |
Sequence 15was giving them to do and with my mistaken assumptions about learning and what a good teacher was. It took me a long time to… |
Sequence 16half her sandwich to the kid sitting next to her. This other kid just gave half her sandwich to the kid sitting next to her.… |
Sequence 19If you're getting kias to do good stuff in order to please you, With• out a sticker in sight, you have a problem. If… |
Sequence 22What's interesting to me about this logical match-up is how many classrooms I've been in where there's a… |
Sequence 26quently rewarded or praised are somewhat less generous than their peers. The effect is most pronounced when they are rewarded… |
Sequence 28WHY REWARDS FAIL How come? Very quickly, let me suggest a couple of possible reasons (see Figure 2). If you want more on any… |
Sequence 29"Do this and you'll get that." Ultimately, that feels punitive. Analo- gously, I don't have… |
Sequence 30There is one way to take a bad thing and make it much worse. You're going to have to bring me back sometime for me to… |
Sequence 31than limiting the number available, but not as good as moving away from the reward and punishment approach altogether. There… |
Sequence 34similarly ineffective because it gets nowhere near where the trouble is. It's a one-size-fits-all solution. Many of us… |
Sequence 36a different direction, to teach you everything about motivation that I know on one overhead (see Figure 3). It took me a while… |
Sequence 38And isn't more motivation what we want? If this were true, it would make perfect sense to follow the Pizza Hut executives… |
Sequence 45wants to be; it is an active way of taking her away from thinking about that and getting her focused on my face. Some little… |
Sequence 47approve of what you've done. You've met my standards." What you're doing is merely helping her experi… |
Sequence 50BREAKING OUT OF DICHOTOMIES By the way, when you talk to parents, one of the things you have to do is have them break out of… |
Sequence 54But in this second-grade class, the kids were into this. One kid came up, when it was her turn to speak, and talked about… |
Sequence 57had they not had a democratic class meeting about something appar- ently irrelevant like how do we want to decorate our room.… |
Sequence 3It set me on a path of discovery, I guess, because I'm attracted to people who are what I call great teachers. I usually… |
Sequence 4some of them at work and they do things that I haven't found a way to talk about yet, which tie them to Sylvia Ashton… |
Sequence 5the same elements that you see in Montessori and Sylvia Ashton Warner. For example, in all of these approaches is a deep… |
Sequence 8requires it; it requires that we dialogue. If you dialogue, you've got to be culturally salient. I think you will hear in… |
Sequence 12visitor you'd be swept off your feet when you see what's happening with children. It interests me as to what they… |
Sequence 14'I don't want to do that anymore. I don't want to pay attention to that anymore.' That's what this is… |