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Sequence 1TRANSITION: URBAN MONTESSORI SECONDARY TO ERDKINDER by David Kahn A survey of the current Montessori urban secondary… |
Sequence 5a permissive role while her mother was more demanding. She was an oldest child and could have felt upstaged by an adoption in… |
Sequence 6be able to operate successfully; these persons in conjunction with each other should form a coherent body of positive growth… |
Sequence 9just intellectual ones. For example, the social relations of the school are like little prairie fires flaring up and dying… |
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 2watching it grow tall and straight and bring forth beautiful leaves. And then, just as it is ready to flower, someone moves it… |
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 8Mr. C: Well, I can accept that. But I still don't think that money, power and fame are evils, as Socrates says. Mr. B: I… |
Sequence 9Ms. A: Yes, that's why oratory would fail too. Even a speech in a grand style would fail where experience and feelings… |
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 9cannot produce children because first you have to reach maturity. If you attempt to do something that a mature person does,… |
Sequence 5new insights or beliefs rather than the other way around, although learning styles differ for people. The brute sanity… |
Sequence 2she and her students would look better. This has not achieved a meaningful improvement in instruction or achievement. Those… |
Sequence 5TB. It's an awakening experience that children have when they are very young. When you see animals and young humans, they… |
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 12movements at all times, not just at school. We learned to notice small details, and we learned to give great lessons. We… |
Sequence 3RUFFING MONTESSORI SCHOOL PEACE CURRICULUM: AN INFORMAL NARRATIVE by John Long In these excerpts from a talk presented at… |
Sequence 5The ways in which conflicts are resolved within a classroom are impor- tant, too; invariably conflicts come up. It's… |
Sequence 21References Arnold, M. B. 0984). Memory and the Brain. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.… |
Sequence 17within the student as we survey the "universe of literature." There it all is, before her, everything that… |
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 95within the student as we survey the "universe of literature." There it all is, before her, everything that… |
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 7was a cognitive psychologist he was a biologist, so maybe there's something about watching growing things that makes you… |
Sequence 11another person until they got to be seven years old. That's called decentering. You start out egocentric so that you… |
Sequence 4These graces have every opportunity to be exercised and imple- mented because the children are free to act, free to choose,… |
Sequence 12duplicating famous experiments of history and others being the inventions of the students themselves. They seem to be going… |
Sequence 9One other characteristic that's very important is that when people get really involved in something that turns out to be… |
Sequence 11something, you're probably going to slow down compared to the others. If you are climbing a mountain and you start… |
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 5Phases of the Creative Process In fact, as you probably know, the creative process is usually seen as made up of four phases… |
Sequence 5behave like adults. Somewhere in those four years a mature human being is supposed to emerge out of the cocoon of childhood.… |
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 37two years old; her lips still move when she reads, but we're OK with that. My two-year-old is doing what two-year-olds do… |
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 47approve of what you've done. You've met my standards." What you're doing is merely helping her experi… |
Sequence 48We do it with infant rooms. "Good clapping!" Please. Fortu- nately, at the infant level they're too… |
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 22For instance, let me just give one little piece of data from this study. One is that we asked these children, whenever the… |
Sequence 29good because they didn't have the interest. So if the parents just provide routine opportunities without knowing what… |
Sequence 3He said, "This is just terrible." I said, "Yeah, democracy can be a terrible thing." He… |
Sequence 10I said, "That's just a law. It's a canon. You can't escape it. It's always going to be true.… |
Sequence 16the spectrum. On the small end-20- and 30- and 40-acre farms-we see a person who inherits a farm and finds out that if raisins… |
Sequence 26that's been traditionally called the family farm, because those people will not be living on that land. They won't… |
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 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 75REFERENCES The Adolescent Colloquium: Summary of the Proceedings. Cleveland, OH: Montessori Teacher Education Collabo-… |
Sequence 11climber: Mountain climbers don't climb in order to get to the top of the mountain. The top of the mountain is the goal… |
Sequence 22Q: Do you think that a child absorbed in a video game is in Flow? A: Yes, they can be in Flow, and usually they stay in Flow… |
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 12Another way of thinking about this relationship is to consider the individual self as the small self, related to the Earth or… |
Sequence 11There are other reasons as well with preemies-they're sort of being bombarded by stimuli they're not ready for-but… |
Sequence 13carbon monoxide. All of those things actually lead to about a half pound reduction in birth weight. Brain size is proportional… |
Sequence 38classroom too, to try to keep the background noises down. Certainly there's no need for background music, in my opinion,… |
Sequence 39Phonemes are individual speech sounds. There are forty pho- nemes in the English language. I don't know exactly the… |
Sequence 3The difference between humans and other animals is not a quantitative difference- it's not that we are a little bit… |
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 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 18I said, "Yeah, democracy can be a terrible thing." He just stopped. He said, "What did you say?… |
Sequence 25He said, "Oh, no." I said, "That's just a law. It's a canon. You can't escape it. It… |
Sequence 3become a mechanic. They become less connected with the land. They use capital from off the farm to subsidize losses on the… |
Sequence 12it's dirty. It is. I think I agree with you absolutely, as long as we don't glorify that savagery. We just recognize… |
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 3This time frame is very short-unless you' re in the middle of it, and then you think it's a lifetime. When you'… |
Sequence 4perspective, every day is a good day. We're the ones that say, "Oh, are you having a bad day today?"… |
Sequence 10Q: When you say that everyone's wearing panties, at what age do you start? You don't wait for the parent to say,… |
Sequence 16a toothpick in it. And of course my adult instinct was to say, "Don't squeeze the water out." But I… |
Sequence 5If the neural pore on the anterior or head end fails to close proper I y, we have a defect known as anencephaly. Literally the… |
Sequence 3twenty-four weeks-because of new medical technology, twenty-four- week fetuses can be viable fetuses. So this timeline is a… |
Sequence 7see that this hormonal swing that they're going to go through in adolescence, and all those kinds of changes, are really… |
Sequence 5In 1954, Sofia Cavalletti began a quest to understand the nature of the child's relationship with God, and to discover… |
Sequence 10And then finally I want to talk about this notion of the pitfall of progressivism because progressivism today is the dominant… |
Sequence 16featured quite prominently in this conference. There's a gentleman whose name is David Sobel who's written a number… |
Sequence 16embarrass anybody. This is a very interesting era in human history because we were born into a time of both magnificent… |