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Cosmic Education at the Elementary Level and the Role of the Materials

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self-evident and emotionally satisfying, and the child is never left wondering, uwhat is the point of all this?" We…

La Dottoressa Montessori at Durham

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self-evident and emotionally satisfying, and the child is never left wondering, uwhat is the point of all this?" We…

NAMTA Journal 12/2 11 Research: Child-Initiated Activity: How Important is it in Early Childhood Education?

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CHILD-INITIATED ACTIVITY: HOW IMPORTANT IS IT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION? by Lawrence J. Schweinhart Child-initiated…

NAMTA Journal 12/2 13 Building Correlations: Montessori Education for Moral Development

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work that is being done, as servants help the master. Doing so, they will be witnesses to the unfolding of the human soul and…

NAMTA Journal 13/1 01 Of Roots and Wings

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OF ROOTS AND WINGS by David Kahn A philosophical outlook on the parent's role in Montessm-i, educa- tion, this article…

NAMTA Journal 13/1 03 Elementary Montessori and Parent Education

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I strongly urge Montessori directors and directresses to collect com- ments by their students on Montessori education. I began…

NAMTA Journal 13/2 01 The Botanical Cards

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THE BOTANICAL CARDS by Mario M. Montessori This insightful article illustrates the underlying developmental principles which…

NAMTA Journal 13/2 07 Cosmic Education and the Physical Sciences

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Footnotes 'Maria Montessori (1948) To Educate the Human Potential 5th Edition 1973, Kalakshetra Publica- tions Press,…

NAMTA Journal 13/2 10 Exploring with the Nine to Twelve Child

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scale, another time computing the relative distances between the plan- ets to a scale that would fit in the classroom. The…

NAMTA Journal 14/2 12 Interview: Introducing Luciano Mazzetti

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INTRODUCING LUCIANO MAZZETTI Luciano Mazzetti Dr. uuciano Mazzetti is the president of the International Montes- sori Center…

NAMTA Journal 15/1 01 Montessori Education: Interactive Idea for Human Understanding

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The Montessori idea is unfinished by design. Some complain that the curriculum presented in Montessori training is incomplete…

NAMTA Journal 15/1 04 Response to Generous Understanding: Knowing Ourselves and Each Other (Terranova)

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RESPONSE TO GENEROUS UNDERSTANDING: KNOWING OURSELVES AND EACH OTHER by Charles Torranova I want to thank David Kahn for…

NAMTA Journal 15/2 01 To Be or Not To Be Montessori

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TO BE OR NOTTO BE MONTESSORI by David Kahn Profound differences in thmry are never gratuitnus or invented. They grow out of…

NAMTA Journal 15/2 03 Movement

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sensorially, they are simultaneously absorbing the world into them- selves. Children build their conception of self and…

NAMTA Journal 16/2 02 Educational Reform: The Sixties and the Nineties

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the young in the way they should go, on rearing them to meet the demands of industry, there were always adversary voices -…

NAMTA Journal 16/2 04 The Objectives of the Paideia Proposal

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With the advent of democratic instirutions so very recent, it is not surpris- ing that we have not yet established a…

NAMTA Journal 16/3 01 The Experiment for the Experiment

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projects of action they recogniu as their own ( The Diakaic of Frttdmn, 1988, p.12). Like the highly formative· early…

NAMTA Journal 16/3 05 Montessori and the Bahá'í Faith

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Although externally her life was affected by political forces, within she remained detached as this statement indicates: Not…
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&location must be considered as most imponant; for as diseases in the world of bodies are extremely contagious, so, in…
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this principle in this way will surely make a difference in our world. In The Promulgation of Universal Peace, 'Abdu…

NAMTA Journal 17/1 09 A Model of the Maturing Person

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Japanese adolescents to pass their university entrance exams results in psychic collapse and hostile resistance to and Aighr…

NAMTA Journal 17/3 28 The Children's Garden

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The adolescents may choose to design the garden for community ser- vice: to beautify the city; to provide flowers to nursing…

NAMTA Journal 18/2 08 What Are the Language Arts For?

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computes, but it does not serve to thematize or articulate what is actually lived (1966, p. 46). To teach the young to think…

NAMTA Journal 18/3 07 A World Core Curriculum

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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION SAMPLER 7bese pragmattc descriptions of adolescent program components which provide an operational view…

NAMTA Journal 18/3 13 Discipline

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NAMTANEWs The Montessori Academy Is Full A new kind of summer program intended to encourage depth, The Montessori Academy…

NAMTA Journal 19/2 02 The Ecology of the Mind

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When Maria Montessori speaks of man, she often uses ::i c::ipit::il "M.'. What does this capital letter…
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of the word, in the sense of Socrates and Plato, the master or majenta who recognizes that in every child and perhaps in every…

NAMTA Journal 19/3 01 Survey of Montessori Adolescent Programs: Interpretive Commentary

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to this survey, only the Franciscan Montessori Earth School in Portland, Oregon, gives adolescents an Erdkinder experience of…

NAMTA Journal 20/1 03 Nurturing the Creative Personality

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concrete, real, and relevant to the lives of young children; (5) provid- ing experiences for children that are outside of the…
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Teachers have to know strategies that concern their own move- ments. "The teacher should study her own movements, to…

NAMTA Journal 20/1 04 Montessori as an Aid to Life

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It is complex-not simply taught, but demanding continuous study and investigation of all aspects of life. It is complex…

NAMTA Journal 20/1 11 Equal Opportunity and the Montessori Magnet School

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Transformational Schools Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944) helped…

NAMTA Journal 20/1 14 In Memoriam: Nancy McCormick Rambusch 1927-1994

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Transformational Schools Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944) helped…
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It is complex-not simply taught, but demanding continuous study and investigation of all aspects of life. It is complex…
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Teachers have to know strategies that concern their own move- ments. "The teacher should study her own movements, to…
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concrete, real, and relevant to the lives of young children; (5) provid- ing experiences for children that are outside of the…

NAMTA Journal 20/3 03 A Day with Dr. Maria Montessori and Her Youthful Charges Is an Eye-Opener for the Average Parent

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To the Montessori "bleachers" the serving of the luncheon of milk and crackers is the most interesting part…

NAMTA Journal 20/3 08 Commitment to Peace

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misery as it does in prosperity, in oppression as in freedom, in war as in peace, and that he did not really know what life is…

NAMTA Journal 20/3 11 Do Not Bequeath a Shamble—The Child in the Twenty-First Century: Innocent Hostage to Mindless Oppression…

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Do NoT BEQUEATH A SHAMBLE THE CHILD IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: INNOCENT HOSTAGE TO MINDLESS OPPRESSION OR MESSENGER TO…
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food triage, depressingly, has been considered as a serious option on the grounds that in time, there will be enough food for…
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helping us to cut between the twin pitfalls of sentimentality and indifference in our relationship to children. Third, we can…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 04 The Verbal/Linguistic and Visual/Spatial Intelligences

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At birth-before words, language, abstract reasoning, cognitive patterning, and conceptual thinking-were images. The brain…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 08 Maintaining the Montessori Metaphor: What Every Child Wants and Needs

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If you're a Bell Curve thinker, you think that a quarter of the people don't even have intel- lect and most of…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 17 The Four Planes of Development

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"potentialities which determine his development"; "there exists within this inert being a global…
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full control of all one's energies, which is the result of the maturation that has been reached. The Four Planes In her…
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ergies that are repressed lead to inferiority complexes, the weakening of personality, lack of responsibility, listlessness,…
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Mon te.:;sori has drawn in the middle of her chart, between the drawing above and that below, between "nature&…

NAMTA Journal 22/1 05 Cosmic Education at the Elementary Level and the Role of the Materials

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self-evident and emotionally satisfying, and the child is never left wondering, "What is the point of all this?&…

NAMTA Journal 23/1 04 Motivation: The Foundation of Successful Learning

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he thinks he can go anywhere, and the urge to explore and discover his world has to be limited rather than pushed. Motivation…

NAMTA Journal 23/2 01 Mario Montessori: In Search of a Deeper Freedom, A Life's Journey of Educational Ideas

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Introduction MARIO MONTESSORI: IN SEARCH OF A DEEPER FREEDOM A LIFE 1 S JOURNEY OF EDUCATIONAL IDEAS by David Kahn When…

NAMTA Journal 23/2 04 The Impact of India

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where we - d with t and spi• At the time, Dr. Montessori and I cer- tainly felt the inner burden of the situation. It was…

NAMTA Journal 24/1 02 World Odyssey: Revelations of the Possible

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The influence and success of Montessori education far exceeds even the worldwide recognition of the ideas of John Dewey. How…

NAMTA Journal 24/1 04 The Integration of Cultures: The Montessori Contribution

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.. . by talking about Montessori edu- cation in terms of its theoretical roots, we are not talking about something which is…

NAMTA Journal 24/1 11 A Montessori Community for Adolescents

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community, since the former and the latter are quite distinct in terms of the community members, the aims, and therefore the…

NAMTA Journal 25/1 10 Pedagogy of Place: Becoming Erdkinder, The Montessori Program Design School, Program Design Position…

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drawn up gradually under the guidance of experience" (111). Peda- gogy of Place draws on the experience of…
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• Within these limits, the occupation demands knowledge, which may involve measurement, refinement of the senses, precision,…

NAMTA Journal 25/1 12 Encouraging the Creative Voice of the Child

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I'm going to suggest today that creative expression is as vital to a human being's development and learning as any…
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are foisted upon children until it becomes very difficult for them to figure out what they're interested in, what might…

NAMTA Journal 25/1 13 Montessori and Early Childhood Education: A Contemporary Perspective

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HISTORY Of course, Maria Montessori' s work encountered detractors from the beginning 1 . Close on the heels of her…

NAMTA Journal 25/1 15 Obituary Maria Christlieb Robles

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HISTORY Of course, Maria Montessori' s work encountered detractors from the beginning 1 . Close on the heels of her…
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are foisted upon children until it becomes very difficult for them to figure out what they're interested in, what might…
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I'm going to suggest today that creative expression is as vital to a human being's development and learning as any…
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• Within these limits, the occupation demands knowledge, which may involve measurement, refinement of the senses, precision,…
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drawn up gradually under the guidance of experience" (111). Peda- gogy of Place draws on the experience of…

NAMTA Journal 26/1 02 Montessori Education and Optimal Experience: A Framework for the New Research

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this idea on its head, she once commented at a gathering to honor her, "The highest honor and the deepest gratitude…
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areas (see also Rathunde, "The Context of Optimal Experience"; Rathunde, "Family Context and the…
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mobility does not come under increased control with maturity, it results inan unproductive pattern of mind-wandering in…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 08 Designing for the Needs of Adolescents: An Interview with John McNamara

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Afterward: Extending beyond the six weeks was continued work on refining their mission statements in preparation for…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 11 Reflections from the Farm

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Everything about the children ment clearly urges middle schools to has a history, and if the stu- transform the fundamental…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 18 Some Characteristics of a Montessori Erdkinder Compromise

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have not had Montessori Our thoughts were that those children would be very carefully selected, certainly not children with…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 19 The Kibbutz, Boy’s Town, Williamsburg and the Montessori Erdkinder

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Joosten: I don't think there is a yes or a no. Is it either or? There is a blend. We can't go outside to an…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 21 Montessori High School

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The Montessori Erd- The Montessori Erdkinder, insofar as it kinder concept is far from a is a home away from home for the…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 22 Why Not Consider Erdkinder?

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For all that, I thought it must be possible to apply certain funda- mental principles of the Montessori method to secondary…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 23 A Historical Look at Montessori's Erdkinder

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all contributed to a spirit of reevalua tion and reform in education that began in the last decades of the nineteenth century…
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from fairly affluent families who ran away from home for the thrill of becoming street musicians and earnjng a few pennies on…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 34 Towards a Positive Education for Adolescents: An Example from the Humanities

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that assessed the ability to discriminate various tastes, smells, sounds, and textures, the study found that these individuals…

NAMTA Journal 27/1 01 Child Development Under Three: The Foundations of the Personality, the Family, and the Montessori Method

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forty-five years prior to any of the early brain research on the potentials of children under three. So once again she was a…

NAMTA Journal 28/1 08 Philosophy, Psychology, and Educational Goals for the Montessori Adolescent, Ages Twelve to Fifteen

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Hutchison in their descriptions of the educational value of place. Place builds a context for social relations; it is the…
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academic study: "work on the land is an introduction both to nature and to civilization and gives a limitless field…

NAMTA Journal 28/3 02 A Comparison of Montessori and Traditional Middle Schools: Motivation, Quality of Experience, and Social…

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about their momentary experience. Students in both samples also completed a detailed questionnaire with similar questions…
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In addition to the comparison of the Montessori and traditional students, Figure 1 also provides additional interesting…
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ported undivided interest only 24% of the time. The primary experi- ence for the traditional students was what John Dewey…
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foJlowed by the genius. His characteristics are absorbed attention, a profound concentration which isolates him from all the…

NAMTA Journal 28/3 03 NAMTA's Middle School Research Hits the Mark

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experience (flow) theory, but I know they had studied the thought of Maria Montessori. What I saw at each of the schools were…

NAMTA Journal 29/1 14 A Montessori Community for Adolescents

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Landerziehungsheime or "education homes in the country." For ex- ample, the one for youths from twelve to…

NAMTA Journal 29/1 22 Camillo 26-01-04

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Landerziehungsheime or "education homes in the country." For ex- ample, the one for youths from twelve to…

NAMTA Journal 29/2 04 Finding the Spiritual Thread in Montessori Work

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ables him to grow, teaches him to speak, and thus perfects him" (The Secret of Childhood 36). It was Betty…

NAMTA Journal 31/1 31 The Montessori High School for the Study of Nature and Society

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. to develop inquiring, knowledgeable, and caring young people who help create a better and more peaceful world through…

NAMTA Journal 31/3 02 Nature and Embodied Education: A Key Role for Montessori Research

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thought. In fact, from Plato through Descartes, and con- tinuing in modern, positiv- istic science, a link between emotion…
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...------------------------------- -- --- - Do we find flow in the direct perception of nature? Here the answer is obvious…
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evolutionary framework and take a long view of human development. Steven and Rachel Kaplan, two researchers who have been…

NAMTA Journal 32/1 04 The Schools our Children Deserve: Helping Parents Understand the Rationale for Alternative Education

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otherwise might, can you think of a more important way to have them spend their time at school or at home? The consensus is…
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I hope you never forget as long as you live, is, Who cnres? If you ever forget that's the correct answer, it will hold…

NAMTA Journal 33/1 13 The Thoughtful School: Social, Emotional, Ethical, and Cognitive Education as the Schoolwide Landscape…

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cal, and academic education 2. Their work was grounded in a deep appreciation of noble goals for education: peace and…
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ge11t. Ed. R. Bar-On, J.G. Maree, & M.J. Elias. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007. Cohen,J., L. McCabe, N.M. Mitchel Ii,…

NAMTA Journal 33/2 11 Montessori and Embodied Education

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1n ~ a r a n t 29 21 13 ■ .\lonte~~on Traditional I ltAh ,\lorn·a11on High .\l011,,tmn I ltp,h Imrort~n« Lo&…

NAMTA Journal 34/1 02 Why It Is Important to Know the Child

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In this book we shall consider the different stages of human de- velopment and try to understand their significance with the…

NAMTA Journal 34/1 15 Child Development Tips for Prenatal to Three: Insights and Suggestions from Montessori Teachers

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8. Prepare yourself for the birthi11g of your child. You may want to consider taking a birthing class and think about your…

NAMTA Journal 34/2 10 2009 NAMTA Baseline Special Education Survey

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cent Springs). Schools often provide a list of local resources and referrals for evaluation. 10. Sometimes a student can be…

NAMTA Journal 34/2 13 Helping Montessori Educators Reach All Kinds of Minds

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HELPING MONTESSORI EDUCATORS REACH ALL KINDS OF MINDS by Mary Jo Dunnington Schools Attuned is one of a suite of…

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