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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 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 1MURIEL DWYER: ON THE WAY TO THE AIRPORT by David Kahn Although Ms. Dwyer has written a short pamphlet entitled Key to… |
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 5ful reproduction; ironically, to the degree that those immigrant families who were working in the sweat shops were having more… |
Sequence 6perfectly normal thing to do. Ms. A: Yes, I think that's what I mean. Mr. B: Well, aren't some strange behaviors… |
Sequence 11Mr. B: But conscience urges us to do right, not just to keep from doing wrong. Mr. C: Well, maybe we really don't need… |
Sequence 6to the discovery of the value of motifs and symbols in intensifying the meaning of that remarkable story. The story fits… |
Sequence 7satisfying relationships and of passing on that ability to their children. But in unstable homes, where parents, often single… |
Sequence 3These families all have something in common - they are outside of the mainstream of their communities and have little, if any… |
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 1about change effectively. In making the change process explicit, I want to make it clear chat I'm not talking about… |
Sequence 2systems. And of course, another irony is that those who preach change always preach how someone else should go about change,… |
Sequence 7teachers in a position to say how they are going co go about pursuing this goal, this change that they want to do. Will we use… |
Sequence 2the common experience for fashioning questions in the right way to reveal what they know, rather than just revealing… |
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 9S. I Hiyakawa, who was my president out at San Francisco State, is a wonderful person. When Dr. Hiyakawa was running for… |
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 6which is trying to become a self-sustaining community in relationship with the plants, the animals, the landscape, the humans… |
Sequence 7difficulties. Now there is a tendency to do away with tensions by eliminating difference rather than harmonizing difference… |
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 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 6it. Here are the symbols for the ~ansitive and the intransitive, the infinitive, and the verb to be for auxiliary use. Of… |
Sequence 9at you!te show- • fs you're showing the child with this work is not only the ability to parse-to recognize the parts… |
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 11peer modeling and peer support to the new people. Another way to elicit parental cooperation is to get a first child started… |
Sequence 6rule must be introduced at a time when it is essential; it must be explained, it must be enforced consistently, and it will… |
Sequence 1THE GREAT STORY OF AI.ExA.NoRJA by John Wyatt, PhD Strange,~ I've been watching here, captured in the sounds and… |
Sequence 12The children spent most of !heir time in teacher-directed large- group activities, and ... most of their language behavior was… |
Sequence 18If Luria was correct about inner speech being the mechanism that "feeds" the development of the frontal… |
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 136If Luria was correct about inner speech being the mechanism that "feeds" the development of the frontal… |
Sequence 4adolescents I work with, discussions, reflections, and lessons on the fundamental spiritual and physical needs of humans often… |
Sequence 4that distinguishes bluntly between dumb and smart. It's who we are. It's a quarter inch below the surface all the… |
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 13Let's take a brief look at someone else. Marian Dobbert and Betty Cooke (1987) at the University of Minnesota have taken… |
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 17and needs, then you have to create the environment. Even if it's not necessary to get a job at IBM, that's okay; if… |
Sequence 2We might now continue our conversation with Montessori: "Now that you have returned to your studies, what are you… |
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 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 2The characteristics we came up with were described from a student's point of view. For example, the first one is: A… |
Sequence 10Here is how another skater describes the utter absorption when one feels that a performance is going well: It was just one of… |
Sequence 12Rock climbers are particularly eloquent on this score: "It's a pleasant feeling of total involvement. You become… |
Sequence 23back, he was so embarrassed that he would lurk about in misery in our kitchen just outside the classroom. Ruthlessly, he began… |
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 4Wall, and he finally got to what now is Beijing and took over. When the pager went off, the teacher wrote down that this was… |
Sequence 7But before we do that, let me talk a little bit about what these activities are like. After I did these original interviews,… |
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 17with friends, social situations, or reading for pleasure. Worry and anxiety happen a lot in school; they happen a lot on the… |
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 31A: That's really difficult because you find, for instance, there have been very good studies that show that if you get a… |
Sequence 32A: It's true that it's very difficult to be in flow all the time. Nobody that I know can be in flow all the time.… |
Sequence 4Many people can be in extremely stimulating situations-in a ski re- sort, with an tndoor swimming pool, and cilll kinds of… |
Sequence 9And I said, "Well, don't worry. Just go out and stop people in the street and within half an hour you will find… |
Sequence 14forms of life, makes us able to do a lot of different things. It makes us able, for instance, to think of ourselves as a… |
Sequence 19evolving society around us. That can be done through things like education, through the program you are doing, but also… |
Sequence 20every day and some once a week; some say, "I had one experience like that 20 years ago and that's it."… |
Sequence 21Q: Do you think it's actually possible to directly teach people to make the optimum choice when their skill levels and… |
Sequence 22clergymen from England who started visiting the Alps and wrote up how beautiful and majestic these things were, and they… |
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 16QUESTIONS ANO ANSWERS Q: As Montessorians, how can we can get our work selected by the culture? A: Obviously, if I had a… |
Sequence 18A: Gatekeepers usually develop historically in very funny ways. You don't know exactly who will be entitled to be a… |
Sequence 25interesting is a list distilled from the study of these hundred people. Of course, the first one is familiar; we talked about… |
Sequence 28Every one of the people we interviewed has the same rhythm. It may be a daily rhythm, that is, they work alone from 7 in the… |
Sequence 29But in their private life, it is amazing how bourgeois these people are; they are not taking chances and being different just… |
Sequence 34the kind of hardship, the feeling that you conquered it, you survived it. It's really sad that you can't do that. Q… |
Sequence 3feelings. Coles tells the story of an eight-year-old girl who refused to participate in a spelling bee, despite her teacher… |
Sequence 4BEYOND BRIBES AND THREATS: How NoT TO GET CONTROL OF THE CLASSROOM by Alfie Kohn In an effort to clarify the basic… |
Sequence 11here's what I'm going to do to you," or I say, "Do this and you'll get that," I am… |
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 29"Do this and you'll get that." Ultimately, that feels punitive. Analo- gously, I don't have… |
Sequence 31than limiting the number available, but not as good as moving away from the reward and punishment approach altogether. There… |
Sequence 32But the fact that young children are so hungry for our approval-are they not?-puts an enormous burden on our shoulders not to… |
Sequence 34similarly ineffective because it gets nowhere near where the trouble is. It's a one-size-fits-all solution. Many of us… |