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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 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 4bedside table was a prayer book, and a new book by Luciano Mazzetti (speaking at the Summer Washington Conference) and a note… |
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 6projects, ranging from elaborate drawings of Bronze Age armor to an animated cartoon, from epic poetry to a detailed… |
Sequence 6Fundamental to the hunter-gatherer adaptation is the belief that either we will all live together or we will die together.… |
Sequence 6are able to visualize any given lrnowledge. By 18 you have envisioned the whole universe. Then at 18 you decide what your… |
Sequence 10Kahn: That's very interesting. Who are some of the people you tell stories about besides George Washington? Gunawardena… |
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 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 2GL. How best do you see us helping children, especially the adolescents who are moving towards taking their place in the… |
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 7So we read The Buuer Battle Book. It was Dr. Seuss' metaphor for the Cold War and the devel.opment of atomic weapons. Our… |
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 7around Germany among the people whose dialects still preserved some of the old forms, as some dialects do in many parts of… |
Sequence 9with them and know them. The dominant animals have, of course, changed a great deal. You get the dominance of the bear in the… |
Sequence 10Another one is "those youngest best," which means, historically, that iri a matriarchate, the youngest son… |
Sequence 11have been traced, and seventeen Robin Hoods. This snowballing happens because there are so few names. Even in England-… |
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 5BACKGROUND OF TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS Teacher Background The two teachers who were trained in Montessori methods, A and B at… |
Sequence 9results in "teaching for intelligence." That puts the cart before the horse. If you want to put the cart and… |
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 5234-235). In a Montessori elementary class, the children are allowed to form groups; most of their work is done in groups.… |
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 32University of Vermont, where they held 750 high school Latin stu- dents spellbound in a gym during a presentation at Vermont… |
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 15skills, then you would be bored. The flow experience seems to occur in that diagonal; in fact, it does occur in the diagonal… |
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 1THE PREPARED ENVIRONMENT by Eduardo J. Cuevas In this summary of his workshop session, Eduardo Cuevas explores what really… |
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 25you saturate a child in an environment of so-called logical conse- quences, that child, if he grows up and thinks he can get… |
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 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… |
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 48We do it with infant rooms. "Good clapping!" Please. Fortu- nately, at the infant level they're too… |
Sequence 49set foot in the classroom. And you can tell partly that it's fake because of tones of voice. Three-year-olds can smell a… |
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 6little children, these little four-year-olds and five-year-olds, seven-, eight-, nine-year-olds. They sound like adults when… |
Sequence 7which caused Suzuki to place heavy emphasis on environment over intelligence, and that's why, to be a Suzuki student, he… |
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 14'I don't want to do that anymore. I don't want to pay attention to that anymore.' That's what this is… |
Sequence 7What happened? What made this unique culture? I've argued, and I think I can make the argument very briefly this morning… |
Sequence 8corporate agriculture-farm owners don't want to live where they farm because it's boring, it's dirty; they… |
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 21quite accurate analysis. I think we all have to realize that farms like mine are being destroyed in California. All of my… |
Sequence 2And I said, "What do you mean?" And he said, "Well, you've got this Wal-Mart." Well… |
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 8I thought, "Oh, this is stupid." Then they said, "What are you going to do with these coyotes?… |
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 27So you've created a hierarchy. You're judgmental. You have certain values that you think are better. Well, the same… |
Sequence 11The process of normalization is similar to what Piaget calls self- initiated activity (cited in Ginsburg & Opper). It… |
Sequence 13this child showing me?" and you ask the child what he or she likes to do. My nephew attends a Montessori preschool.… |
Sequence 14If you can't look him straight in the eye. He's the fellow to please, never mind all the rest, For he's with… |
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 5I'm going to suggest today that creative expression is as vital to a human being's development and learning as any… |
Sequence 16Here are a few general ways to make problem solving work for you. First of all, ask more, tell less. Ask more questions,… |
Sequence 3handful will know the word Montessori and even fewer wiU appreciate its broad implications. When, in the normal context of… |