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Sequence 5represents human work and the development of the intellect. We ask the question that has been asked throughout time, "… |
Sequence 3that. Normally, I don't stop the activity until everyone does, but David Kahn has only given me one hour to speak. He had… |
Sequence 5Now I said to you at the beginning that I believe strongly in an environmental philosophy of education. One thing that I… |
Sequence 6eminent ecologists and conservation biologists had a similar message. They were speaking a message of love and loss. They… |
Sequence 13challenge. It's a challenge of scale, it's a challenge of place, it's intertem poral, it's in terspatia I… |
Sequence 17So I tried to write a book that covered all of this stuff in a way that was warm, non-technical, and filled with narrative and… |
Sequence 24There are different ways of observing the biosphere. There are knowledge systems of the biosphere that need to be part of… |
Sequence 25olds who know the geological timescale, they'll know local natural history, and they'll know the bio-geochemical… |
Sequence 13The manifestation of a sensitive period in an activity is both preceded by and succeeded by no observable activity. Beforehand… |
Sequence 9Now, of course, not every network is a living system. A chicken wire fence is a network, a fishing net is a network, but… |
Sequence 19then emerged and lived on that stage. The Gaia view is that the very stage was created and is being regulated and maintained… |
Sequence 37copy it, but to hold it up as a mirror of a different approach with similar goals and opportunities. I think it would be very… |
Sequence 5evolve into real Children's Houses instead of what they sometimes appear to be, which is more akin to laboratories. I… |
Sequence 7teenagers-wake up, and they help out, and then the husband goes fishing or hunting for mushrooms, and then he comes back and… |
Sequence 18never called work anything that they themselves originated. That is the typical way in which kids learn about what's work… |
Sequence 5knew that my job was to create a supportive, stimulating learning community for my students, yet I found that in trying to do… |
Sequence 12There came a point in the development of our schools when two trusted staff members sat me down and said, "Terry, you… |
Sequence 2Don't get discouraged with a child. Re- member that the child that comes each morning is not the same as the one that… |
Sequence 12Over four consecutive years both a Casa Dei Bambini and four elementary classes were opened, and by 1952 the school was… |
Sequence 236Over four consecutive years both a Casa Dei Bambini and four elementary classes were opened, and by 1952 the school was… |
Sequence 2PSYCHO-GRAMMAR: MONTESSORI'S REFLECTIONS ON GRAMMAR AND PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT by Annette M. Haines Dr. Haines' rich… |
Sequence 7and size? I'm sure, from what I know about stones, that they're not uniform in color, and what about the surfaces of… |
Sequence 7men. They had sixteen or seventeen vice presidents, all world-class or ex-world-class athletes. None of them knew anything… |
Sequence 8• The class size would be thirty to thirty-five children. • A YM would need more space than a traditional class. · The room… |
Sequence 9presented the parents with the plan. There were questions: When will the children have time to play if they are in a… |
Sequence 6We have had a rule for the past two years: Any fiction reading done in or for school must be a classic. This fall a new… |
Sequence 3The organization of this discussion of successful intelligence is that first I'm going to do an introduction, which I… |
Sequence 7as a teacher, or as a resident living in a community, want to be able, in part, to shape the environment-to make it a better… |
Sequence 14become worse at, there are other things that you may become better at. So what you want to do is capitalize on the things you… |
Sequence 15taught by Spanish speakers and given to Spanish speakers in a Spanish-speaking country, so I decided I needed to learn Spanish… |
Sequence 28learning. Assessment also should involve analytical, creative, and practical, as well as memory components. You make the… |
Sequence 30encode learning material more deeply and elaborately because they're being taught in three different ways (analytically,… |
Sequence 33wisdom. And wisdom involves putting together everything I've said today. It's about the use of your successful… |
Sequence 81. Isolating the object (such as nomenclature work or liturgical signs such as water in baptism) 2. Working exactly (setting… |
Sequence 1a nod of the head, a wink, and a "good garsun [boy in the Irish]" or "good gearrchaille [girl],… |
Sequence 14the fields or exploring the woodlands, playing around the old castles with no adult in sight. My grandfather had a sixth sense… |
Sequence 15I take a great interest in the children's grandparents. Once asked, they love to talk or write about their grandparents… |
Sequence 19a sense of wonder and awe. The interest evoked can be deep, passionate, lasting, and the desire to find out more is driven… |
Sequence 1ELEMENTS OF ERDKINDER AT THE FARM SCHOOL by Laurie Ewert-Kroeker Laurie Ewert-Kroeker demonstrates the general orientation… |
Sequence 2COMMUNITY, FREEDOM, AND DISCIPLINE IN A CARING CLASSROOM by John McNamara John McNamara characterizes adolescents through… |
Sequence 8BKG: Yes. DK: Well, that's a problem for all of us. So could you elaborate on the mystenJ and what your guided intuition… |
Sequence 5soon. But when it comes to the older children, above all, it's a question of an exactness of understand- ing. And that… |
Sequence 7Now what about humanity itself? As we know, at a certain point in the story, we focus on that very. special form of life to… |
Sequence 9We can no longer afford to be right, whether teacher or parent. Being right is simply not important. Even if we know… |
Sequence 8When a child has chosen to work with the geometric solids (not the first presentation, of course), I love to tell the story… |
Sequence 24a lot because of a mere calculation error even though they really understood the concept. What matters is not so much just the… |
Sequence 27helps me to see that they might not be so easy to reconcile. And the third kind of challenge is that 1 have this theory,… |
Sequence 28there are some university instructors who do that as well? They prepare a syllabus before they've met their students!… |
Sequence 33I hope you never forget as long as you live, is, Who cnres? If you ever forget that's the correct answer, it will hold… |
Sequence 34devices and embarrassed about asking for help because they're sup- posed to know this stuff by now. In the worst schools… |
Sequence 40antithetical to genuine, deep learning. Once again we can tell the parents the absence of grades is often a precondition to… |
Sequence 41Yeah, I'm already doing that. Sometimes there's this frozen identity, too, with respect to the school, where we… |
Sequence 1THE ORIGINAL PRINCIPLES OF THE SILENT JOURNEY by Barbara Gordon Bnrbnrn Gordon recounts tlie evol11 tio11 of The Si lent… |
Sequence 5When we decided to redo it, we thought that in the one we had done before, there was something missing. The parents needed a… |
Sequence 6Individual work in the primary. We spend about fifteen minutes in the toddler class, in the primary usually about forty-five… |
Sequence 8Then I will tell a little bit of background on the Jo11r11ey, what it means, talk about the levels of develop- ment, and… |
Sequence 10the Journey to put out the Saturday materials, so that on Friday night everything could be on the shelves just like the… |
Sequence 14Let me tell you something that has been said over and over: "I had such a spiritual experience."… |
Sequence 16don't always put directions by them; it depends on the material. Some of them just say "explore";… |
Sequence 17Upper elementary. Note the variety of work. Choose from the materials that are out." I've had several do that. I… |
Sequence 19WHvTwo DAvs? When I came back to the Barbara Gordon Montessori School ten years ago, I was dumbfounded to find that they had… |
Sequence 21the children do. Also, if you have really long directions, they won't do it. I've seen people stop and read, and no… |
Sequence 24preparation with them, explaining what Montessori is all about and what their grandchildren were experiencing, and then we did… |
Sequence 26being a child in so many years. And to try to get in touch with myself as a child is ... I can't even express it.&… |
Sequence 4how much action there is going to be. The best evidence that cynicism is widespread is the materialism we see around us. This… |
Sequence 3success to their Montessori experience. Isn't that success enough? Who has the time and energy to take on more than that… |
Sequence 9Darn. Can't they develop their will by having us explain it to them? That would be so much easier and more efficient.… |
Sequence 21Carson's table, aski11g Anto11io as I did so if lte would allow 111e to be very puslty and i11terrnpt ltis work with a… |
Sequence 29Byron's Story I was s11111111011ed to t/,eoffice next to 011r classroom where I found Byro11's 111ot'1er… |
Sequence 14hold all of the water vapor that it contains. Some of it precipitates, becoming a liquid. And you did ask: "Why does… |
Sequence 16'Tm walking down the city street with my friends on this going out. I see a homeless person over there. He looks hungry… |
Sequence 7all, it is a place. We are grounded. There's stability in that place, wherever your place is, wherever your ado-… |
Sequence 11problems or thirty geometry problems, when they've already mastered it and understand it after doing three or four. It… |
Sequence 12three hundred games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. ['ve failed over… |
Sequence 4Figure 1. Timeline of mathematics. Graphic by David Waski. primary tracking mechanism used in our schools today. It has bad… |
Sequence 14percent of science labs are used for classes other than science and nineteen percent are regularly used for courses other than… |
Sequence 11we spent a lot of time there together as a family. She really appreci- ated having all of this open space to explore. This… |
Sequence 17began her weaning meals. These days she uses this space 11"1ostly for snacks. She has access to the lower drawers in… |
Sequence 4sional, somebody who may do an evaluation on a child in your care. I hope to bridge a bit of the traditional Montessori… |
Sequence 13So, whom should I ask for help with these questions? Well, these are the usual suspects: • a physician • a child… |
Sequence 14to be a general consultant for this kind of thing. I've tried to foster some relationships between local pediatric… |
Sequence 18For people who are not in the medical or psychological world, to say disability or disorder feels awfully harsh, doesn't… |
Sequence 42• extraversion versus introversion • emotional stability versus stress reactivity • conscientiousness versus irresponsibility… |
Sequence 45There will be an activating event-something that elicits a startle response. "What do you mean we're going out… |
Sequence 49What we are working against here, again, is nature. No one signs up to be at the ninety-eighth percentile of stress reactivity… |
Sequence 63tells you that, suspect other things that they are telling you. They have a model, a theory, which may be quite interesting,… |
Sequence 9• Teachers challenge us. They disagree with us and cause frustration. The boy who said this sighed and said sometimes that… |
Sequence 10Figure 5. Illustration of Alexandria, from The Great Tale. is teaching a group of eighteen children in Alexandria how to read… |
Sequence 31Figure 14. David Kahn, John Wyatt, Kathleen Allen. Alexandria was a center for embalming. Bodies were brought in from all… |
Sequence 14I thought, when the student raised his hand and said, "Yeah, I get that. When am I going to use this?"… |
Sequence 19a lesson on some of these things that they've had before is kind of boring for them because there isno context for it. So… |
Sequence 26ROAD MAP FIVE HISTORY FOR THE YOUNGER ADOLESCENT LARRY SCHAEFER Larry Sclinefer views history as a11 a11thropological… |
Sequence 27you the secret of the adolescent. She says, "The intimate vocation of man is the secret of the adolescent" (… |
Sequence 30The third waypoint is a strong, grounded orientation to one's place in time-now-and to one's cultural history,… |
Sequence 4it because I grew up in a Montessori school. This Montessori thing has always been a part of my life, and as a result I think… |
Sequence 5T remember when the only computer in my home town took up the whole floor of a building that was about a quarter of a block… |
Sequence 2Here is one of the quotes from Maria Montessori that 1 be- lieve guides me daily in what L do:" Imagination does… |
Sequence 5four hours one will have driven 140 miles; that if peanuts cost 40 cents an ounce and a bag of them costs $2.20 then there… |
Sequence 7accomplished something, as opposed to a sigh of relief, "I've finally finished." It's that sense… |
Sequence 8principal, I used my principal prerogative and brought the check- erboard home. J said, "Okay, Dorothy, let's… |