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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 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 7feelings of others. Why couldn't he pursue his mission and still be accepted by others? Seems to me he'd have a… |
Sequence 7Dewey, John. (1956). The ch:ild and the curriculum: the sclwol and soci.ety. Chicago: Univer- sity of Chicago Press. Hunt,… |
Sequence 8whether it can be done on a sufficient scale under present conditions? And the best guess is, probably not. That is why so… |
Sequence 8I have already said that the evolutionary engine ofnatw-al selection is a terrible one and, until very recently, we were as… |
Sequence 19Ass~MEN'f AND REFORM by Ramsay Selden The "right kind of assessment, " asserts Ramsay Selden, can… |
Sequence 9S. I Hiyakawa, who was my president out at San Francisco State, is a wonderful person. When Dr. Hiyakawa was running for… |
Sequence 3Maybe, as I came to be more at home in the world, understanding more of what's really in it and how it works, the dark… |
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 12danced. That is the one group of stories in which you should change your normal voice; tell them quickly and keep the rhythm.… |
Sequence 2concrete, real, and relevant to the lives of young children; (5) provid- ing experiences for children that are outside of the… |
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 184concrete, real, and relevant to the lives of young children; (5) provid- ing experiences for children that are outside of the… |
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 10You want them to get busy with all the things I saw out here in the exhibits. You want them to see a banquet out there. You… |
Sequence 17In any case, I remind the students, their job is not to retell Homer word for word, but rather to present the story in their… |
Sequence 5behave like adults. Somewhere in those four years a mature human being is supposed to emerge out of the cocoon of childhood.… |
Sequence 19If you're getting kias to do good stuff in order to please you, With• out a sticker in sight, you have a problem. If… |
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 3It set me on a path of discovery, I guess, because I'm attracted to people who are what I call great teachers. I usually… |
Sequence 19Q: Since we've been at a conference that has discussed ultimacy, that is, the destiny of the universe and the destiny of… |
Sequence 20own culture. We're better people than that"-not to say, "Oh, don't do that. We've got to go… |
Sequence 18have to go down to Chile to find that. The answer, then, that I am suggesting is again the material appetite-the reason why… |
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 8Critical Thinking as a Form of Creative Expression Oftentimes in school children are asked to memorize and repeat. What is… |
Sequence 9--------------------------------~-- But memorize-and-repeat leads to a narrow kind of learning. This approach all too often… |
Sequence 40--------------------------------~-- But memorize-and-repeat leads to a narrow kind of learning. This approach all too often… |
Sequence 41Critical Thinking as a Form of Creative Expression Oftentimes in school children are asked to memorize and repeat. What is… |
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 2COSMIC EDUCATION by Margaret E. Stephenson Cosmic Education is, in a way, what we have been leading up to all these days,… |
Sequence 23excitement in Jiving. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as… |
Sequence 7with the soul-space in the surrounding world. Knowledge is a pres- ence of two beings in a single psychic space. One of the… |
Sequence 34assuming they're in a normal language environment. It really does show how good their little brains are at learning the… |
Sequence 8primary and elementary classes. Dr. Montessori attempted to show us that in the child we are dealing with a human being and… |
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 2Erdkinder Atlanta: Danish? Joosten: Yes, there are some schools there. But these are for prestige, not yet for education.… |
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 12to follow an indigenous Aztec pattern of development. That's a very cruel thing to say, but it's absolutely true.… |
Sequence 5Criticism of democracy has ea used the biggest trouble in my own life-not only in reviews but also after lectures-and some… |
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 3Appropriately enough, although Dan was almost certain and a few of us suspected that our data might be off, we did not fully… |
Sequence 7Do they love them? Yes, they do. Do they want to do those little fasteners? Yes, they do. My granddaughter, at seventeen… |
Sequence 9A: Flipping up and down-I don't know ifl' d recommend flipping up and down with toddlers, because they'll try… |
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 1LIFETIME DEVELOPMENT AS SEEN THROUGH THE FIRST THREE YEARS OF LIFE by Judi Orion Early development shapes one's… |
Sequence 6before you can be really sure that they're never going to have a lapse in toileting. And, of course, given the conditions… |
Sequence 7fails to challenge children from an infant community, who, you re- member, have been actively involved in practical life… |
Sequence 8child said, "Well, I think the people in Kosovo and Croatia need the light to stop fighting. And other people need… |
Sequence 5In 1954, Sofia Cavalletti began a quest to understand the nature of the child's relationship with God, and to discover… |
Sequence 13Prepare the environment for the child's interest. And then after preparing the environment and after introducing all… |
Sequence 16• feeling of usefulness and an understanding of one's "many sided powers of adaptation" (Montessori,… |
Sequence 32the room, we find it's information that we've heard before. And it's nice to be validated as teachers to know… |
Sequence 11that division of labor also made possible the exploitation of labor. Hunter-gatherers could not really exploit each other.… |
Sequence 4nism. This red-baiting took its toll on our new teacher, who felt personally attacked and resigned just before school started… |
Sequence 7our school, unbeknownst to me, was relationships between the school director (me) and the teachers. "Oh, yes, she… |
Sequence 10they did it with ninety-eight percent efficiency. The spacecraft would be headed to the moon, but it wasn't quite on… |
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 17it does depend on you. If you try to make it something formal, I do not think it will happen. You just have to either have the… |
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 7into these wild, outdoor spaces, where they will make their own discoveries. "When the child goes out,"… |
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 14Bruner, Jerome. "Man: A Course of Study." Toward a Theory of Instruction. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1966… |
Sequence 15We must be quick because our species, homo sapiens, having at- tained a certain level of intelligence, is now, in the words of… |
Sequence 9the parish would have twelve Masses every weekend and they'd all be full." Why does this journey with the child… |