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Sequence 1TRANSITION: URBAN MONTESSORI SECONDARY TO ERDKINDER by David Kahn A survey of the current Montessori urban secondary… |
Sequence 3• Montessori trained and certified teachers and administrators representing both the Association Montessori Internationale… |
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 2is to develop the interest of the child, and the pedagogical basis of the whole school is the developmental needs of the child… |
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 11Parents were interviewed in person. Involvement directly with the school was hard to measure. Types of involvement were… |
Sequence 11teacher. The latter were completed within two months of the child's entrance into either kindergarten or first grade.… |
Sequence 2Dependent variables in the study were the motor skill of eye-hand co-ordination, visual perception skills of figure ground and… |
Sequence 3able to obtain each child's individual scores on the Spring, 1988 compe- tency tests in Reading for Grades One through… |
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 3develop in their children a style of learning that is active and inter- grated, not passive and fragmented. Here at Mitchell… |
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 4Villegas and Biwer report that there are two major benefits associ- ated with parents' active involvement in the… |
Sequence 8that readiness is not only born but made. You make readiness. The general proposition rests on the still deeper truth that a… |
Sequence 1IMPLEMENTING MO~RI IN THE URBAN SECTOR by Sandra J. Sommer Sandra Sommer, an energeti.c school principal demonstrates what… |
Sequence 10Whole language teachers use their own creative energy tfJ initiate learning experiences. This may take the form of stimulating… |
Sequence 10her clinical experience--if he or she had one, and if it was done well. These are big ifi. The kind of literacy that we are… |
Sequence 6I. Grear range of students' instructional materials (books, tapes, films, pro- grammed instruction, simulations, games,… |
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 5of a variety of student activities required to master the objective. Student performance in these classroom activities, if… |
Sequence 30of a variety of student activities required to master the objective. Student performance in these classroom activities, if… |
Sequence 48Stodolsky, S.S. & Jensen, Judith. ( I969b). Ancona Montessori research project for c11!111ral/y disadvamaged children… |
Sequence 84. Writing samples compared from day one and samples at the end of each of the cycles. 5. Latin sentence for analysis and… |
Sequence 6------------------------~ -- -- Projected Costs for Applied Research Writing Tasks: • Manual for Ethnographers Manual for… |
Sequence 19The analysis of behaviors characterizing autonomy in this study implies the cyclical nature of its development, involving the… |
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 9Once children have thoroughly explored a material, the teacher presents a lesson with a new difficulty to master (Montessori,… |
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 177Once children have thoroughly explored a material, the teacher presents a lesson with a new difficulty to master (Montessori,… |
Sequence 8RESULTS Results from this investigation will be presented by instrument in the following order: Items promoting peace in the… |
Sequence 10very evident to observers, who would often hear students articulate their feelings in classrooms. The implications of these… |
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 1PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT FOR THE NORTH AVONDALE MONTESSORI SCHOOL by the Cincinnati Public Schools Montessori Assessment… |
Sequence 5behave like adults. Somewhere in those four years a mature human being is supposed to emerge out of the cocoon of childhood.… |
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 11• Children as young as ten or eleven being involved in rape • Ten-or eleven-year-olds taking heroin and other drugs. Another… |
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 12Likewise, in The Montessori Method, she emphasizes that the "sec- ond form of preparation, that of the spirit&… |
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 24REFERENCES The Adolescent Colloquium: Summary of the Proceedings. Cleveland, OH: Montessori Teacher Education Collabo-… |
Sequence 20Reflective self-assessment can be facilitated in two ways, formally and informally. You might consider using "work… |
Sequence 29Reflective self-assessment can be facilitated in two ways, formally and informally. You might consider using "work… |
Sequence 75REFERENCES The Adolescent Colloquium: Summary of the Proceedings. Cleveland, OH: Montessori Teacher Education Collabo-… |
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 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 8They build upon one another. Every ending is a new beginning. They must be understood as a whole-they must be correlated. They… |
Sequence 25tantly, education were all associated almost exclusively with the city, which grew as a cultural rather than industrial center… |
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 5In 1954, Sofia Cavalletti began a quest to understand the nature of the child's relationship with God, and to discover… |
Sequence 20out the process that there is really only one core objective that you should seek to realize: Incorporate as wide a variety as… |
Sequence 16• feeling of usefulness and an understanding of one's "many sided powers of adaptation" (Montessori,… |
Sequence 14REFERENCES Ferguson, Stan. What Parents Need to Know About Children. Dallas: Ludie Press, 2002. (Available through the web… |
Sequence 2A COMPARISON OF MONTESSORI AND TRADITIONAL MIDDLE SCHOOLS: MOTIVATION, QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE, AND SOCIAL CONTEXT by Kevin… |
Sequence 29Despite the different interests of all these individuals, the questions that keep coming up are often very similar. Therefore… |
Sequence 41Ryan, A., & H. Patrick. "The Classroom Environment and Changes in Adolescents' Motivation and Engagement… |
Sequence 2NAMTA's MIDDLE SCHOOL RESEARCH HITS THE MARK by Annette M. Haines I have finally had the privilege of reading Kevin… |
Sequence 6We're learning more about social interaction than actual academics. The fact that Montessori and current motivation… |
Sequence 2RESPONSE TO Two STUDIES BY KEVIN RATHUNDE AND MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI by Kay M. Baker The studies titled Middle School… |
Sequence 11REFERENCES Montessori, M. From Childhood to Adolescence. 1948. Rev. ed. Trans. AM. Joosten. Oxford, England: Clio, 1996.… |
Sequence 3They further validate the benefits of spontaneous concentration when they write of the high intrinsic motivation and quality… |
Sequence 9REFERENCES Haines, A.M. Spontaneous Concentration in the Montessori Prepared Environment. Videocassette. NAMTA, 1997.… |
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 22of them, prevent them from growth, and rob them of the necessary tools to face adversity in their life. According to John and… |
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 15well together. Teachers and staff must refrain from being judgmental of parents who work long hours. The assistants must… |
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 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 5we are also expected to meet and exceed state standards and meet the entrance requirements of the nation's increasingly… |
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 4Rathunde, Kevin, & Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. "Middle School Students' Motivation and Quality of… |
Sequence 35Psychology: Vol. 1. Theoretical Models of Human Develop- ment. Ed. R.M. Lerner. Series ed. W. Damon. 6th ed. New York: Wiley… |