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Sequence 8land, to support future races. "21 The emotional depiction of coral as part of a cosmic legacy of doing right by… |
Sequence 9stresses the same idea in her writing: "the child must learn by his own individual activity, being given a mental… |
Sequence 2The Essentialists' Viewpoint Essentialism is not a Montessori phenomenon; it is a nationwide trend. What is really… |
Sequence 2The quiet in the class when the children were at work was complete and moving. No one had enforced it; and what is more, no… |
Sequence 26an avoidant child goes way up when the mother leaves the room and way up again when she returns, even as the child's… |
Sequence 5from tomes of scope and sequence which compel schools into a blind confor- mity. The reform of education in the Montessori… |
Sequence 12Bue I think there were other aspects that affected the good testers as well. They began co talk about tests, about "… |
Sequence 13Montessori years that come before-for what is laid out in the middle school years as we watch our children bec.ome adults is a… |
Sequence 9GL. So is there a place there then for, say, the humanities? TB. Well, definitely. GL. You've talked about the face that… |
Sequence 12at five years of age has become an intelligent being, must have gone through a constructive evolution { TIii! Fonnation of Ma,… |
Sequence 11Obviously, many more activities or variations on activities can ease the transition into traditional education. However,… |
Sequence 1NEEDS OF THE ELEMENTARY-AGE CHILD MONTESSORI PRINCIPLES, STRATEGIES, AND THEIR PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATIONS by Rajendra K.… |
Sequence 1THE MONTESSORI ADOLESCENT: FRAMEWORKS FOR INVENTION by David Kahn Extrapolating from the primary and elementary curriculum… |
Sequence 2Don't call it Montessori. If it works along Montessori lines, that is good. But there is no Montessori method for the… |
Sequence 4the earth. The origin of life on earth, of humans, farms, cities, and empires is personified in the great lessons as invention… |
Sequence 16invention, it also provides the holistic, integrated basis for clarifying complex tensions between human and natural systems.… |
Sequence 6are lo be transformed; instead of frustrating the learner's eager desire for work, as they so often do today, they are to… |
Sequence 13I remember Margaret Stephenson talking in training about the idea of total reading. She defined it as understanding the… |
Sequence 6We must avoid placing limits on what a child will want to learn and digest by utilizing formalized curriculum scope and… |
Sequence 4II little real knowledge of it. Instead, it is lo those three essays, and in particular Lo "The Erdkinder,"… |
Sequence 10ment, parents often feel differently about continuing if it is an option to go directly into high school after finishing… |
Sequence 12old were eliminated from the.sample. With this correction, the median size is 25 students (n=19). In other words, eliminating… |
Sequence 19schools. Maybe not in our schools, but perhaps in open schools, etc. They should also be academically competent in the… |
Sequence 1DARE TO Do ERDKINDER: REPORT FROM CHICAGO by John Long "What type of adult does civilization need?" This… |
Sequence 2third plane? Are we not immersed in some necessary creative tension as we strive to bind our present explorations with her… |
Sequence 5The teachers interviewed were unanimous. All said that they were aware of test objectives and tried to cover the objectives… |
Sequence 8to make it all. And so I think that the focus ... is tohelp,asmuch as possible, as quickly as possible, and as early as can be… |
Sequence 121990, p. 37). The fact that the Montes- sori teachers interviewed seemed to spend more time than traditional teachers on… |
Sequence 1THE ELEMENTS OF SOCIAL LIFE AND THE MONTESSORI ADOLESCENT by Linda Davis Linda Davis traces the Montessori view of… |
Sequence 2gether. If they could function so beautifully in an environment de- signed for their psychological characteristics, could the… |
Sequence 13with what had become a luscious, teeming mountain of fertilizer and abundance. He looked up from a vast shovel-full, and,… |
Sequence 4Chapter Two, "An Overview of the Primary Years," is an expert portrait of the prepared environment for the… |
Sequence 3their shelves, place a few toys and mats in the middle of the room, and establish a day care unit for babysitting during the… |
Sequence 9The prepared environment must allow for social interaction and be multi-aged. Research sug- gests that "the human… |
Sequence 16QUESTIONS ANO ANSWERS Q: As Montessorians, how can we can get our work selected by the culture? A: Obviously, if I had a… |
Sequence 9age brings in terms of wisdom and experience, to ignore that reser- voir, and also then with that reservoir, to allow people… |
Sequence 4tion of agrarianism, I will try to suggest to you, is tied to Western culture. In other words, Western culture would not have… |
Sequence 22these pockets-I don't see the answer necessarily as sweeping the country. But I think that the purpose of agrarianism and… |
Sequence 26that's been traditionally called the family farm, because those people will not be living on that land. They won't… |
Sequence 320 years, have lacked any governing standard, any consensus of design, and any documentation. To help build the needed… |
Sequence 5when the teacher observes the child's adaptation to the modern world, the educator becomes educated by just how the… |
Sequence 8now to find out how to do it, from people who set up farms. You must take time now to look in books. You are the makers of… |
Sequence 18two great-great-great-grandparents, and so on until you get to the "eighteen greats" level, where you have… |
Sequence 10Dr. Montessori's concept of the absorbent mind and particularly her recommendations a bout the birth-to-three stage were… |
Sequence 8participation within shared organizational forms. So unlike the old way, where each subject was treated as a separate entity… |
Sequence 18They have used plants and animals: for food, for paper, forcloth- and have spun the ea terpillar' s silk in to scarves… |
Sequence 3In the Erdkinder, the cosmic vision of the Montessori elementary years is made more conscious, more concrete. It is… |
Sequence 96In the Erdkinder, the cosmic vision of the Montessori elementary years is made more conscious, more concrete. It is… |
Sequence 195They have used plants and animals: for food, for paper, forcloth- and have spun the ea terpillar' s silk in to scarves… |
Sequence 205participation within shared organizational forms. So unlike the old way, where each subject was treated as a separate entity… |
Sequence 229Dr. Montessori's concept of the absorbent mind and particularly her recommendations a bout the birth-to-three stage were… |
Sequence 2COSMIC EDUCATION by Margaret E. Stephenson Cosmic Education is, in a way, what we have been leading up to all these days,… |
Sequence 7of his or her own favored styles of communicating with others and of which styles of others' expressive communication… |
Sequence 9what they said; some were pessimistic. The adolescent needs some- thing more than logic to have an optimistic view of… |
Sequence 2emerged with prominent Montessori educators of the suburbs and cities deciding to move into the "third plane"… |
Sequence 4appear more like a traditional junior high in miniature in some cases. But beneath this veneer of traditional time blocks and… |
Sequence 7Place-a place for adolescents to experience as a whole: a place that is an island of green for beholding, a place to work and… |
Sequence 11ing examples of spontaneous discipline through visiting ex- isting Montessori adolescent programs, consolidating past… |
Sequence 5Near the end of the war I leaned toward the Japanese side. And when the war ended I was sad. I was sad and relieved. I was… |
Sequence 9We need to provide an environ- ment where children can experi- ence community, affirmation, love, and support first and… |
Sequence 16ERDKINDER: THE EXPERIMENT FOR THE EXPERIMENT Interview with Margaret E. Stephenson and A.M. Joosten The followi11g… |
Sequence 12... adolescents prove to be good teachers for small children who feel a certain repulsion for very adult personalities who… |
Sequence 17exist in other cultures. We're not supposed to speak of Western chauvinism now, but I think that I can prove to you that… |
Sequence 9affluence, and materialism. But I do think that these pockets of educa- tion, the kind of education that you engage in, can… |
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 5parents-is something we call the Nido, or the situation for infants. I don't think anyone in this room would disagree… |
Sequence 10We have to provide a space that will allow the movement development that needs to occur to take place. Movement is a big… |
Sequence 4perspective, every day is a good day. We're the ones that say, "Oh, are you having a bad day today?"… |
Sequence 13in the glass. Those of you who are Primary trained know about those lovely pouring exercises for the three-to-six children.… |
Sequence 23A: How interesting. Q: I have to agree with the scientific approach because not all families have that love. It would be… |
Sequence 8an individual level, perhaps as parents, in the way we rear our own children; but we also create it on a cultural level in the… |
Sequence 1ALIGNING MONTESSORI SCHOOLS WITH TRUE MONTESSORI ESSENTIALS by David Kahn As 250 Montessori schools in North America… |
Sequence 5to function in this way, it must be ordered and complete: The shelves must manifest the sequence so the children understand… |
Sequence 2and their expanding intellect (97-109). The prepared environment of the Erdkinder includes a working farm, a "museum… |
Sequence 12rated games. They invented stories that would go on from day to day in their play, whereas the play in the built area was more… |
Sequence 5Unfortunately, adolescence is a period of life when society puts its young people in a hold· ing pattern. The frustration… |
Sequence 8Based on the great results we were seeing from our program, about ten years ago we started looking at how to provide this… |
Sequence 1MONTESSORI AND OPTIMAL EXPERIENCE RESEARCH: TOWARD BUILDING A COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATION REFORM by David Kahn ON NORMALIZATION… |
Sequence 2EXTENSIO ANIMAE AD MAGNA by Elizabeth Wymer and Keith Boehme Elizabeth Wymer and Keith Boehme explain the philosophy of two… |
Sequence 2Montessori speaks about to occur, we must take the next step. We must "give" this environment over to the… |
Sequence 11computer I cell phone ban. She and her father jokingly referred to the period of withdrawal that she experienced from her… |
Sequence 10* * * In the Erdkinder Appendices of From Childhood to Adolescence, Montessori presents the next logical step for history as… |
Sequence 24So surmounting obstacles is really important because there will be times, if you're trying to be creative in your… |
Sequence 33wisdom. And wisdom involves putting together everything I've said today. It's about the use of your successful… |
Sequence 1Montessori writes about the child, but this message applies to also to adults: His intelligence becomes whole and complete… |
Sequence 11The land school is a rescue for Montessori's "rhythm of life." The presentation by Camillo Grazzini and… |
Sequence 1THE KEY LESSONS OF THE THIRD ADOLESCENT COLLOQUIUM by David Kahn THEORY INTO PRACTICE: THE MONTESSORI COLLOQUIUM AS A… |
Sequence 3At the same time that McNamara was nurturing his classroom model, Phil Gang sought out the AMI point of view. In 1976,… |
Sequence 7repaying the loan to buy the mushrooms, so our profit margin is small. An unexpected benefit was that a local journalist heard… |
Sequence 13This is the phenomenon we call the "normalized class." It is so unique that I think we often take it for… |
Sequence 34devices and embarrassed about asking for help because they're sup- posed to know this stuff by now. In the worst schools… |
Sequence 21Inertia, generated by oversimplification, lack of concern, or trivializing a problem, is foreign to our children. They are… |
Sequence 7relations, even though we know and have long known from psychol- ogy that these are very formative. They so profoundly affect… |
Sequence 15by Miss Child that "We don't sit on tables, dear," the young woman got down, as if hearing this for the… |
Sequence 23• Train the parents to recognize milestones • Train the teachers to better support the children in the class- room • Early… |
Sequence 6baby and young child is "egocentric": He is selfish. Everything centers around him. It must. As Margaret… |
Sequence 5sence of social existence. ft is a production and exchange, which does not only bring in the people living near to one, but… |
Sequence 16'Tm walking down the city street with my friends on this going out. I see a homeless person over there. He looks hungry… |
Sequence 4sional, somebody who may do an evaluation on a child in your care. I hope to bridge a bit of the traditional Montessori… |
Sequence 2ELEMENTARY STORYTELLING: THE ULTIMATE INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH by Elise Huneke Stone Elise H1111eke Sto11e's lively… |