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Sequence 1511 IN MY SERVICE Is PERFECT FREEDOM!" Some advanced Montessori training courses do not include the sixth great story… |
Sequence 1511 IN MY SERVICE Is PERFECT FREEDOM!" Some advanced Montessori training courses do not include the sixth great story… |
Sequence 1THE FARM EXPERIENCE: ITS IMPORTANCE IN A CHILD'S LIFE by Richard Barker Richard Barker's perceptive correlations… |
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 18syndrome may take months, even years, to develop), and, until symp- toms are present, one can never be certain whethel'… |
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 3Guthrie, L. & Hall, W. (1984). Ethnographic approaches to reading research. In P.David Pearson (Ed.), Handbook of… |
Sequence 9behavior by males is absolutely unknown in the animal kingdom except in chimps and humans. So if one is interested in the… |
Sequence 5Dr. Montessori was convinced that there was one human nature, but that it manifested itself at a superior level or lower level… |
Sequence 7Education is the help we must give to life so that it may develop in the greatness of its powers. Our plan is to help life to… |
Sequence 2"Man himself must become the center of education and we must never forget that man does not develop only at… |
Sequence 3great dissatisfaction when she learned that I was a medical doctor and at that time a pediatrician. It was evident that she… |
Sequence 7satisfying relationships and of passing on that ability to their children. But in unstable homes, where parents, often single… |
Sequence 5director (and occupied this charge until his deathi Branches are func- tioning in many European, Asian, and American countries… |
Sequence 6were conducted with sufficient fidelity to the method, and the name was sometimes used as if it were an advertisement. The… |
Sequence 1OBSERVATION (1958) by A.M. Joosten Observai:ion is the source of the p<YWer of Dr. Mont.essoris work. Here Mr. Joost,… |
Sequence 2something of it, although love can go far beyond that knowledge. Knowl- edge, however, must be there as a starting point. Love… |
Sequence 4the impression that after a while nothing "new" is seen. Deeper pene- tration and more discoveries require… |
Sequence 107) discipline (orderly and disorderly conduct, obedience, quiet); 8) gen- eral remarks; 9) d,ai,e. These reports are signed by… |
Sequence 1KEEPING IN TOUCH WITH MONTESSORI ROOTS An Interview with Mildred Gunawardena In an interview with Damd Kahn, Mildred Guna:… |
Sequence 2not exist externally in nature, but were essentially insrrwnents of the mind. We also knew that it was crucial to make… |
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 12The Struggle to Restructure This, chen, brings me to my ninth point. It seems to me chat at the fundamental levd, school… |
Sequence 12Bue I think there were other aspects that affected the good testers as well. They began co talk about tests, about "… |
Sequence 6altar for their First Communion. 19 The practical work of learning composting techniques, maintaining and enhancing the… |
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 5le was in chis spirit thac she undercook further scientific study of chil- dren. They were to her fellow human beings who… |
Sequence 7Opportunities occur every day co enrich the child's vocabulary. The following activities are very useful and can be… |
Sequence 4We have the legacy of Dr. Montessori's work passed down to us like a guiding light for our mission today. Dr. Montessori… |
Sequence 1THE MONTESSORI ADOLESCENT: FRAMEWORKS FOR INVENTION by David Kahn Extrapolating from the primary and elementary curriculum… |
Sequence 3rationalistic, deterministic view. The educational environments she cre- ated were clear alternatives to the traditional… |
Sequence 16I. Organizational change is natural and fundamental; organizations are always in Aux. 2. Mose imporranc organizational… |
Sequence 2he had also been identified as learning disabled. He resented being taken out of the classroom for tutoring sessions several… |
Sequence 3Montessori views personal autonomy as interconnected with social re- sponsibility and the evolution of human societies. The… |
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 6but also because it listed Maria Montessori as one of the four visionary educators of the century whose work was instrumental… |
Sequence 24Minsky, M. 0985). The Society of Mind. New York: Simon and Schuster. Montanero, S. Q. 0991). Understanding the Human Being:… |
Sequence 5physical limits of the prepared environment and builds the child's critical attention around a span of the concept.… |
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 4re you willing.to be open d to abando,n the com- n presupposition ejudice) that "children ed 'to have ~ hot… |
Sequence 3Dr. Montessori expressed her hope "for a normal development, that fortunately does not depend on what we attempt to… |
Sequence 6These two territories became the properties of the societies and nations of man, as time went on, and the story of man was… |
Sequence 8Around six, the child un- dergoes a greattransfor- mation. He is now no longer satisfied with the society of his family and… |
Sequence 11logical characteristics and each needs a prepared adult to help the individual help himself. The four planes of development… |
Sequence 12product of a Casa dei Bambini and a Montessori elementary class which have followed vigorously Dr. Montessori's formula… |
Sequence 22But Or. Montessorl's pri- mary concern for the ado-, lescent was that he should be allowed a life of activ- ity and… |
Sequence 23contacts. Running the shop would necessitate a study of commerce and exchange, of supply and demand, of the rules of book-… |
Sequence 27achieving the development of the human personality, rather than the narrower one of providing culture only, then a close… |
Sequence 1F~&A~--------------- MARIA MoNTFSSOm's CONTRIBUTION To nm CULTIVATION OF TIIE MATIIEMATICAL MIND by Mario M.… |
Sequence 7bars of four are added. This makes the two sides reach the value of seven. To complete the square of seven, a space is left… |
Sequence 1THE PEDAGOGY OF TIME by Lawrence Schaefer, PhD Larry Scbaefer's keynote lecture at the 1993 Summer Institute, History as… |
Sequence 2and must be carried out by teachers in their own classrooms. Although much verbal agreement has been given to this original… |
Sequence 1F~I'-------------------- BREAKTHROUGH IN EvoLunoN: TowARD A PARTNERSIDP FUITJRE by Riane Eisler Jn The Chalice and… |
Sequence 1P~----------- TRum IN PARENTING by David Kahn Expen·ence has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our… |
Sequence 8the teacher must awaken the spirit of the child. They considered the moral preparation of the teacher to be the key to… |
Sequence 18behavior and learning such as posture and coordination, the development of directionality and laterality, and the development… |
Sequence 3of life when young people lhrive on real life experience and active involvement. And lhe adults seemed to the adolescent… |
Sequence 10ment, parents often feel differently about continuing if it is an option to go directly into high school after finishing… |
Sequence 6discoveries. He also becomes aware of his class-mates in whom he takes an affectionate interest" (Montessori, 1949/… |
Sequence 4students performed higher than expected. In fact, the homeroom teachers had to be convinced that is was really the students… |
Sequence 3REINVENTING CIVILITY by Lawrence Schaefer, PhD Dr. Schaefer calls for "a renaissance in civility," a return… |
Sequence 57REINVENTING CIVILITY by Lawrence Schaefer, PhD Dr. Schaefer calls for "a renaissance in civility," a return… |
Sequence 164students performed higher than expected. In fact, the homeroom teachers had to be convinced that is was really the students… |
Sequence 180discoveries. He also becomes aware of his class-mates in whom he takes an affectionate interest" (Montessori, 1949/… |
Sequence 18example, I should discuss the Montessori method and its practical working with any student who asks me, I should not discuss… |
Sequence 3The first reason has to do with scholarship based on the old model. Consider the recent book The Bell Curve (Herrnstein &… |
Sequence 14• Good and strong preparation of teachers/ guides Two quotes follow, giving us food for thought about the future. First, in… |
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 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 14story? The brain knows that the spiritual feelings that people have are important. You have to deal with that in some way. In… |
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 29willing to compromise. 23 As far as she was concerned, selecting some aspects of the method and excluding others meant… |
Sequence 2Our long-range planning committee developed a task force to study full-day programs. The task force was comprised of all the… |
Sequence 15"IN Mv SERVICE Is PERFECT FREEDOM!" Some advanced Montessori training courses do not include the sixth… |
Sequence 25unique. Even the staunchest believer in The One Right Way had a hard time choosing. Enunciation exercises These offer an… |
Sequence 3oversee a capital campaign drive. We were, instead, drawn by the vision of the whole child-and then put ourselves in service… |
Sequence 1FLOW AND EDUCATION by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi PART ONE David [Kahn] is right. I told him that everybody should call me Mike… |
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 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 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 1A MONTESSORI JOURNEY OF SELF by Eduardo J. Cuevas Eduardo Cuevas' luncheon talk explores the experimental nature of… |
Sequence 3covery, an interpretation, and an approach-a dynamic understand- ing of the child-and not a recipe. Too often our students… |
Sequence 1INTEGRATING CSIKSZENTMIHALYI AND MONTESSORI by Chulanganee Fernando As a tribute to Dr. Csikszentmihalyi's work, Ms.… |
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 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… |