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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 5instructional activities that will help children develop the learning-to- learn skills and behaviors associated with school… |
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 11high in the history of music, but it is, as my chorus director opined, a "sweet piece." (I've made what… |
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 2School?;• and to be very much conscious of what we were trying to accomplish. The children became Montessorians. If treated… |
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 1THE GREAT STORY OF AI.ExA.NoRJA by John Wyatt, PhD Strange,~ I've been watching here, captured in the sounds and… |
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 4adolescents I work with, discussions, reflections, and lessons on the fundamental spiritual and physical needs of humans often… |
Sequence 9exception was in one of the Montessori classrooms, where a student, described by her teacher to have a mother addicted to… |
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 7What happened? What made this unique culture? I've argued, and I think I can make the argument very briefly this morning… |
Sequence 16digms of exclusion-not unlike modern America. The Hellenistic period is a wide-open period similar to our own, where money… |
Sequence 18know it today will be destroyed or saved because of the West- maybe destroyed in the rain forest and maybe destroyed in… |
Sequence 5var, and you mix the two and combine the best of human and natural possibilities. I'll give you an example of what I… |
Sequence 13Oeconomicus-that one person can take a piece of ground and do something with it and another person simply can't. Believe… |
Sequence 18have to go down to Chile to find that. The answer, then, that I am suggesting is again the material appetite-the reason why… |
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 11The process of normalization is similar to what Piaget calls self- initiated activity (cited in Ginsburg & Opper). It… |
Sequence 15Open up to nature And enter Yet another world THE FUTURE CHALLENGE: FORMING A NEW CONSCIOUSNESS There needs to be a &… |
Sequence 6We're overflowed with opponents Who we need to defeat. We haven't the luck A team needs to win. But I feel the… |
Sequence 9lfsomething's going to have to bend for Beth Anne, it's rhyme, not the substance of what she's trying to… |
Sequence 2THE CASADEI BAMBINI: A CENTURY CONCEPT by Elizabeth Hall Elizabeth Hall walks readers through early Montessori history, from… |
Sequence 10something like $3,000 between them that year. Later, in her own center in California, Stela helped to train as trainers such… |
Sequence 3handful will know the word Montessori and even fewer wiU appreciate its broad implications. When, in the normal context of… |
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 24handful will know the word Montessori and even fewer wiU appreciate its broad implications. When, in the normal context of… |
Sequence 183something like $3,000 between them that year. Later, in her own center in California, Stela helped to train as trainers such… |