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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 8isn't the same thing as declaring that no reason for patterns of branch- ing exists. Pattern cladists don't doubt… |
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 2Today, with mothers spending less time at home, with families falling apart and being reshaped in new combinations, and with… |
Sequence 25who experienced deprivation when very young and rebounded hand- somely in adolescence. According to Kagan, the commotion… |
Sequence 5from tomes of scope and sequence which compel schools into a blind confor- mity. The reform of education in the Montessori… |
Sequence 3goals seriously, it turns out that we need a lot more critical and creative thinking as a part of the process of education.… |
Sequence 6have a problem co explain. We know that babies are geniuses universally. We find ic in Piagec, but unfonunacely he didn't… |
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 5TB. It's an awakening experience that children have when they are very young. When you see animals and young humans, they… |
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 13English. So, English literature dropped. When you had a German-speaking ruler and a German-speaking court, it affected what… |
Sequence 4story, for example-give the most excellent details about life in a country. When you are teaching, look up the tales. In the… |
Sequence 20Now, sub-cycle number four is the language of birds, and the type tale comes from Normandy. Here, the child hears the birds… |
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 14One elementary school head in an affluent Midwestern suburb recently told me that children from "normal"… |
Sequence 140One elementary school head in an affluent Midwestern suburb recently told me that children from "normal"… |
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 121990, p. 37). The fact that the Montes- sori teachers interviewed seemed to spend more time than traditional teachers on… |
Sequence 6you have nature. On the other hand, my view, my metaphysics, tells me that nurture changes nature. Before I go further, let… |
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 4We can readily sympathize with any reader who finds the record of these events hard to believe. It was exactly the same with… |
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 32A: It's true that it's very difficult to be in flow all the time. Nobody that I know can be in flow all the time.… |
Sequence 4• the ways in which decisions are made in the class: individu- ally, in small groups, and in whole-class meetings; • the… |
Sequence 5home. Have you had the experience of finding it difficult to persuade parents to move away from traditional practices and… |
Sequence 45wants to be; it is an active way of taking her away from thinking about that and getting her focused on my face. Some little… |
Sequence 47approve of what you've done. You've met my standards." What you're doing is merely helping her experi… |
Sequence 15. . . in all of these approaches is a deep re-spect for the living reality of the children that we work with-that we use… |
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 8"Our baby will be born in May," Jessica figures. "What a beautiful month!" And they begin… |
Sequence 21know my four-year-old still hasn't quite figured out the difference between a week and a month-it's all kind of the… |
Sequence 29The other thing we know, and this is primarily from work at the University of Chicago, is that language is irrepressible, that… |
Sequence 41Contrary to what Piaget thought, imitation, we now know, begins at birth. Some studies show that even newborn babies can… |
Sequence 7of his or her own favored styles of communicating with others and of which styles of others' expressive communication… |
Sequence 5creatures can't do this. So the difference is not a quantitative differ- ence-it's not that we are a little bit… |
Sequence 18and language. So you might think there's got to be a connection between the two. But what precisely is the connection?… |
Sequence 21• 4 merges= 16 units (from 400 to SOO neurons, a 25% increase) Therefore, it takes a 150% increase to pass beyond the two-word… |
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 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 2forty-five years prior to any of the early brain research on the potentials of children under three. So once again she was a… |
Sequence 22having one drink. Three percent admitted to drinking at least one drink per day or at least one binge. So alcohol consumption… |
Sequence 28Let me first talk about cytomegalovirus (CMV), which is a very common virus. It poses no danger to most of us. In fact, many… |
Sequence 8physically what happens to your body when you hit adolescence. I can't talk to boys because I've never experienced… |
Sequence 17A: It's like we don't discuss all the emotional ramifications of all the things that could happen in a birth. Every… |
Sequence 19with adolescents who didn't go through this program who were doing internships. I tried to give them some idea of where… |
Sequence 21A: To address your first issue, that whole value about the essence of love and the creation of new life is there before we… |
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 5Unfortunately, adolescence is a period of life when society puts its young people in a hold· ing pattern. The frustration… |
Sequence 1MONTESSORI AND OPTIMAL EXPERIENCE RESEARCH: TOWARD BUILDING A COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATION REFORM by David Kahn ON NORMALIZATION… |
Sequence 5People here are having fun; teachers learn from you and you learn from the teachers. We can come to them [teachers] with… |
Sequence 12What you have to remember is that when the children start work- ing with the moveable alphabet and can put out the pictures of… |
Sequence 22BARBARA KAHN: Here is another question about things that we wish were happening but that aren't happening: What happens… |
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 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 11computer I cell phone ban. She and her father jokingly referred to the period of withdrawal that she experienced from her… |