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Sequence 1TRANSITION: URBAN MONTESSORI SECONDARY TO ERDKINDER by David Kahn A survey of the current Montessori urban secondary… |
Sequence 6be able to operate successfully; these persons in conjunction with each other should form a coherent body of positive growth… |
Sequence 5A Variety of Interesting Readers for Primary and Early Elementary I Can Read Se1'ies: Harper & Row, New York.… |
Sequence 6The Cozy Book. Hoberman, Mary Ann, illustrated by Tony Chen. Viking, New York, 1982. Close Your Eyes. Man:ollo, Jean, pictw·… |
Sequence 18SUGGESTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Plants: Activities with leaves and seeds. Florian, Douglas. Discovering Trees. New York: Charles… |
Sequence 1TRIBUTE TO LINDA PRESTON By David Kahn In Memory of LINDA SOULE PRESTON April 4, 1938 - March 20, 1988 Memorial Service… |
Sequence 2easy for him to make the bed each morning. A small Pinocchio hat rack held his pajamas and his outdoor coat. A large piece of… |
Sequence 3touching remembrance of a visit to Hiroshima. She spoke of her own dedication to peace and education and managed to dig a hole… |
Sequence 2Dependent variables in the study were the motor skill of eye-hand co-ordination, visual perception skills of figure ground and… |
Sequence 4the button of a food processor to slice vegetables in a noisy flash. The child is interested in the ritual of cutting a carrot… |
Sequence 11Sawyer so graphically lacked it. Ifwe are attentive to our own experience and that of others, ifwe have the kind of humility… |
Sequence 4personal behavior decisions are social decisions. There is an adult who helps us come to generous understanding, not by… |
Sequence 5function of the child with regard to the formation of the human personal- ity (p. 15). Oui· civilization has not yet devised… |
Sequence 10history as (long after) bipedalism, and probably after tool use and enlargement of the brain, we had many different forms of… |
Sequence 7Dewey, John. (1956). The ch:ild and the curriculum: the sclwol and soci.ety. Chicago: Univer- sity of Chicago Press. Hunt,… |
Sequence 8I have already said that the evolutionary engine ofnatw-al selection is a terrible one and, until very recently, we were as… |
Sequence 7difficulties. Now there is a tendency to do away with tensions by eliminating difference rather than harmonizing difference… |
Sequence 26References Goffstein, M.B. (1979). Natural history. New York. Farrar, Straus, Giroux. Goffstein, M.B. (I 984). A little… |
Sequence 19Stodolsky, S.S. & Jensen, Judith. ( I969b). Ancona Montessori research project for c11!111ral/y disadvamaged children… |
Sequence 48Stodolsky, S.S. & Jensen, Judith. ( I969b). Ancona Montessori research project for c11!111ral/y disadvamaged children… |
Sequence 3RUFFING MONTESSORI SCHOOL PEACE CURRICULUM: AN INFORMAL NARRATIVE by John Long In these excerpts from a talk presented at… |
Sequence 21References Arnold, M. B. 0984). Memory and the Brain. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.… |
Sequence 7of my ·career was washing dishes with Bernard Shaw after a very large social gathering. Bernard Shaw's share of the… |
Sequence 3TOWARD KEY EXPERIENCES FOR THE ADOLESCENT by John Long John Long compares the early-childhood and adolescent levels of… |
Sequence 9for teenagers to be rude? Is it normal behavior for teenagers to use tasteless language? Is it normal behavior for teenagers… |
Sequence 51for teenagers to be rude? Is it normal behavior for teenagers to use tasteless language? Is it normal behavior for teenagers… |
Sequence 75TOWARD KEY EXPERIENCES FOR THE ADOLESCENT by John Long John Long compares the early-childhood and adolescent levels of… |
Sequence 1Do NoT BEQUEATH A SHAMBLE THE CHILD IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: INNOCENT HOSTAGE TO MINDLESS OPPRESSION OR MESSENGER TO… |
Sequence 2system of education. It is easy to see why verbal/linguistic skills are highly valued by parents and traditional educators.… |
Sequence 3Human beings have two complex apparatus for producing speech and for hearing the spoken word. Paper, pencil, and books are… |
Sequence 3WHY NoT CONSIDER ERDKINDER? by Peter Gebhardt-Seele Answering possible objections and citing his own personal experiences,… |
Sequence 21I insisted that Baxter not be medicated as a condition of his entering our class. How could he slay his dragon if we tampered… |
Sequence 5behave like adults. Somewhere in those four years a mature human being is supposed to emerge out of the cocoon of childhood.… |
Sequence 23concrete example in a school environment that exemplifies a doing to approach or a working with approach. If it's one… |
Sequence 38And isn't more motivation what we want? If this were true, it would make perfect sense to follow the Pizza Hut executives… |
Sequence 6the wife of two kings and later was to become the mother of two kings. For some years, Eleanor and Henry were content. They… |
Sequence 7At the beginning we reacted with some fatigue, because it was hard to see that themes that had been studied with great care,… |
Sequence 9love." "With eternal love I love you" say the prophets of Israel (Isaiah 54:8,Jeremiah31:3). &… |
Sequence 6joy of the children at their" awkward efforts" was the impetus for the pair to do something more organized… |
Sequence 9calling them out, the shepherd going ahead of them, the sheep follow- ing. This opens the way for them to work with the… |
Sequence 4an oral language and therefore oral tradition is very important. Their principal arts and crafts are embroidery and working… |
Sequence 19ANTI-CONSUMERISM RESOURCES Consumer Alert 1001 Connecticut Ave. NW Suite 1128 Washington DC 20036 202-467-5809 fax 202-… |
Sequence 10Other songs may be used in this same way. An example of a song typically found in a children's music book is "… |
Sequence 9The music created a feeling of life. Picture # 2: This picture is of a particle that was left and joining with a negative.… |
Sequence 11which has the ability to think, i.e., they can order their thoughts into classes. There are no sharp boundaries in the natural… |
Sequence 24REFERENCES The Adolescent Colloquium: Summary of the Proceedings. Cleveland, OH: Montessori Teacher Education Collabo-… |
Sequence 75REFERENCES The Adolescent Colloquium: Summary of the Proceedings. Cleveland, OH: Montessori Teacher Education Collabo-… |
Sequence 202which has the ability to think, i.e., they can order their thoughts into classes. There are no sharp boundaries in the natural… |
Sequence 12If you play a drum, the skin vibrates in waves. If you could get very close to it and slow things down considerably, you would… |
Sequence 15John [Wyatt] mentioned that he finds that the best ques- tion for him to ask a new apprentice is how lazy he or she is.… |
Sequence 11"Oh, well-you mean, don't give them any?" And I said, "Yes, don't give them any problems… |
Sequence 31everybody that all of the research on the advantages of babies signing has come from these two authors, so I'm just… |
Sequence 17REFERENCES The Adolescent Colloquium: Summary of the Proceedings. Cleveland, OH: Montessori Teacher Education Collabo-… |
Sequence 12It is amazing how wise teenagers can be. It came as a revelation to me how sensitive they could be to and how aware they could… |
Sequence 5REFERENCES Suber, Martin. Between Man and Man. New York: Macmillan, 1978. Suber, Martin. I and Thou. New York: Scribner… |
Sequence 15TOWARD KEY EXPERIENCES FOR THE ADOLESCENT by John Long In the evolution of the urban Montessori adolescent programs, the… |
Sequence 8They build upon one another. Every ending is a new beginning. They must be understood as a whole-they must be correlated. They… |
Sequence 3WHY NOT CONSIDER ERDKINDER? by Peter Gebhardt-Seele Dr. Peter Gebhardt Seele describes the Erdkinder ideal in relation to… |
Sequence 5Secondary Literature Entries marked with an askerisk (•) are reprinted in this issue of The NAMT A Journal. Bodi, John.&… |
Sequence 7*Kahn, David. "The Kibbutz, Boys' Town, Williamsburg and the Montessori Erdkinder." NAMT A Quarterly 4.… |
Sequence 5king, and he needed a queen. He needed a good queen, a queen with experience. Louis and I were separated on the first day of… |
Sequence 7Do they love them? Yes, they do. Do they want to do those little fasteners? Yes, they do. My granddaughter, at seventeen… |
Sequence 17At this same school, the children in the early school care program would come to one building to have their breakfast and do… |
Sequence 2PRENATAL INFLUENCES ON THE BRAIN by Lise Eliot Dr. Eliot' s clear scientific explanation of embryology and prenatal… |
Sequence 5In 1954, Sofia Cavalletti began a quest to understand the nature of the child's relationship with God, and to discover… |
Sequence 11One at a time, children step up, quite literally, to adulthood. Yet there are other models of childhood that we can also draw… |
Sequence 16• feeling of usefulness and an understanding of one's "many sided powers of adaptation" (Montessori,… |
Sequence 14pa per letters, and the words for the sensorial attributes. In spite of this, I started noticing how the children were… |
Sequence 4Thus itis easy to see that the development in mathematics is not linear; it follows the different psychologies of the growing… |
Sequence 184Thus itis easy to see that the development in mathematics is not linear; it follows the different psychologies of the growing… |
Sequence 11each of the sounds that we use when we speak has a picture of itself, just like the photograph we can have of ourselves. In so… |
Sequence 22of them, prevent them from growth, and rob them of the necessary tools to face adversity in their life. According to John and… |
Sequence 13adolescent to prick our consciences with old and new mysteries that allure us into deeper teachings and perhaps into a whole… |
Sequence 8sense, regardless of how it turns out" (Havel 181). Optimism cannot be commanded, as Frankl observes, but hope can be… |
Sequence 20The last activity at this level is to introduce little handmade books. In this very shore time the children have acquired the… |
Sequence 2Montessori speaks about to occur, we must take the next step. We must "give" this environment over to the… |
Sequence 9and two years and is tradition- ally referred to as the "opposi- tion crisis." The beginning of this… |
Sequence 7into these wild, outdoor spaces, where they will make their own discoveries. "When the child goes out,"… |
Sequence 14Bruner, Jerome. "Man: A Course of Study." Toward a Theory of Instruction. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1966… |
Sequence 6We could compare the place where the government is found, to a strong fortified castle. And the river that feeds the workers,… |
Sequence 9Let's go back to the castle. It seems isolated, but we can see five gateways which are connected with the department of… |
Sequence 10homes and health clinics, our early childhood centers and classrooms, America's schools and human service institu- tions… |
Sequence 7waiting below a good rapid. We take canoes, because in canoes you have to work together. You have to call out what you see and… |
Sequence 4problems of one plane during a completely different plane. Thus normalization, which means a return to the path of normal… |
Sequence 3In the summer of 2005, several adolescent practitioners gathered in Hiram, Ohio, to begin work on developing a curriculum in… |
Sequence 16end everything, including the people, the cities, and the countries one loved. But still, why did bad things happen to good… |
Sequence 13Thursday: yogurt, muffins, juice, milk Friday: eggs, toast, juice, milk Even the youngest children can crack and cook their… |
Sequence 4think about their long-term goals for their kids; looking backward means inviting them to reflect on what things were like… |
Sequence 15eh i ldren. You have to get some money if you work in an industrialized society. But there's nothing, including grades,… |
Sequence 3a question on something you sent out. So, we thought they really needed to experience it. The first time we did the Journey-… |
Sequence 13Liskin-Gasparro, J.E. "If You Can't Use a Language, You Don't Know a Language." Middlebury… |
Sequence 7Special Acknowledgements There would be no exhibit without the generous contribution and leadership of Thomas Mueller,… |
Sequence 178A Montessori Journey 1907 to 2007 Patrons Anonymous Donation through Si Helena Monressori School Association Montessori… |
Sequence 21the Ship of Fools.Self-satisfied lovers of nothing, of fa.lse representa- tions and false concepts that the body/ mind creates… |
Sequence 70REFERENCES Arendt, Hannah. Tire H11111a11 Condition. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998. Aelian. Historical Miscella11y. Loeb… |
Sequence 7This sounds very much like a Montessori perspective, right? He also thought that this inner nature was vulnerable and could… |
Sequence 10intrinsic motivation and engagement? That's how you get a disembod- ied mind: You cut off the personality from a holistic… |
Sequence 4eyes, energy to burn, and he had come from a play group where there were few limits on behavior, including throwing things… |
Sequence 11growth of personality, demonstrates, almost as in a splen- did revelation, the true manner in which man renders himself… |
Sequence 41I wnlked bnck to the gnte with !he four- n11d five-yenr-olds who hnd nrrived enrly, tnking them two nt n time. "I… |