Search Inside Documents
Displaying results 1 - 100 of 1078
Sequence 6materials and equipment which are, or ought to be, found in any Montessori elementary environment. Each group representative… |
Sequence 7istry or physics, and you cannot study life without its environ- ment, which brings us to geography. But then again, you… |
Sequence 1511 IN MY SERVICE Is PERFECT FREEDOM!" Some advanced Montessori training courses do not include the sixth great story… |
Sequence 18Each individual, each one of us, has a body made up of billions of cells (50 thousand billion, to be ex- act) and, from the… |
Sequence 20beings, the exploration of this aspect of human society, we usually identify as economic geography in our courses. Montessori… |
Sequence 6materials and equipment which are, or ought to be, found in any Montessori elementary environment. Each group representative… |
Sequence 7istry or physics, and you cannot study life without its environ- ment, which brings us to geography. But then again, you… |
Sequence 1511 IN MY SERVICE Is PERFECT FREEDOM!" Some advanced Montessori training courses do not include the sixth great story… |
Sequence 18Each individual, each one of us, has a body made up of billions of cells (50 thousand billion, to be ex- act) and, from the… |
Sequence 20beings, the exploration of this aspect of human society, we usually identify as economic geography in our courses. Montessori… |
Sequence 1MONTESSORI, POVERTY, AND THE SPECIAL CHILD by Jon R. Osterkorn, Ph.D. With wit and substance, Dr. Osterkorn exposes the… |
Sequence 5instructional activities that will help children develop the learning-to- learn skills and behaviors associated with school… |
Sequence 2Culturally too, silence has many interpretations. Within our society silence can be construed as inferring compliance or… |
Sequence 7tofight mediocrity, and renew our own fires by returning to the first flames, the sources of Montessori. These sources are,… |
Sequence 3This idea of presenting the whole universe to the child is explained by Maria Montessori's grandson, Mario M. Montessori… |
Sequence 7With this last statement she relates to a concept that later educators have called "exemplary learning."… |
Sequence 9placement is that all these experiments provide fundamental impres- sions, sensorial experiences or understanding of phenomena… |
Sequence 18was from 8:30 A.M. to 1:30 P.M. There were 25 children in a class with a teacher, an aide, and two parent-aides who alternated… |
Sequence 7Time duration of interactions was significantly different between the two schools. Montessori children interacted longer times… |
Sequence 3forward to a big future at Syracuse University. ot to mention along the way I've found a great boyfriend and earned… |
Sequence 5helping students to be total human beings is a more important aim of education. Too many specialists can have only minimal… |
Sequence 7are to be expected and even desired for they contain information essential for further learning. For students to discover and… |
Sequence 8who must get well - grow in health. The farmer does many things for his plants or animals, but in the final analysis it is… |
Sequence 13Lupus is an exhausting disease, but Flannery O'Connor was none- theless to make herself into one of the great writers of… |
Sequence 10Elements of the Definition of Class Discussion I. An interchange between students, not primarily between stu- dents and… |
Sequence 7verbal; memory of mere opinions adopted on the naked authority assumed by indoctrinating teachers. The conception of the… |
Sequence 2Method of Instrumentation The sample consisted of 96 Montessori students and 48 school stu- dents, their parents and teachers… |
Sequence 2this sense to accomplish his ends in a natural way, instead of having to keep intervening to add new things. In the 17th… |
Sequence 1INTRODUCING LUCIANO MAZZETTI Luciano Mazzetti Dr. uuciano Mazzetti is the president of the International Montes- sori Center… |
Sequence 10complex civilizations that the Mexican philosopher and educator Jose Vasconcelos dubbed them "the cosmic race.&… |
Sequence 6...... The Montessori Birth Center served as a referral service, matching Assistants to Infancy with families desiring their… |
Sequence 1ALBER!' M. JOOSTEN - A BIOGRAPHY Albert M. Joosten was born in the Nether lands on November 21, 1914. His formal… |
Sequence 1THE SOCIAL QUESTION OF THE CIDLD a966) by A.M. Joosten Hiswrically, children have been regarded as pe-adults without rights… |
Sequence 2millennia not inside, but rather outside human society. It will be admit- ted as a full member and be granted its social… |
Sequence 1OBSERVATION (1958) by A.M. Joosten Observai:ion is the source of the p<YWer of Dr. Mont.essoris work. Here Mr. Joost,… |
Sequence 2everything else that's imponanc in the schools, and that everything that is imponanc in the school is affected by the… |
Sequence 2outside the school, directives from supervisors, and advice from others in similar roles. They accepted the status qua and… |
Sequence 131. Much greater range of students' instructional materials (books, tapes, films, programmed in- struction, simulations… |
Sequence 2seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing… |
Sequence 4be something unusual about this one. It is certainly not that it can offer empirical evidence of success in all those fields… |
Sequence 1610. Jerome S. Bruner, Toward a Theory of Instruction (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Universiry Press, 1966). I l. Alexis Carrel,… |
Sequence 11References Eisley, Loren. (1964). The unexpected universe. New York. Harcou re, Brace, and World, Inc. Lorenz, Konrad. (1990… |
Sequence 12casks in terms of the adaptive actitudes and skills chat he believes every person should master, including industry, identity… |
Sequence 16must hold students to real academic standards to be ready for college and life. College faculty chink high school teachers… |
Sequence 9Each observation period required approximately two hours; at the comple- tion of each session the observer tallied the checks… |
Sequence 18The study supports the findings of Bruner, DeCharms, and others that self- motivation is part of a complex process In… |
Sequence 19The best response to the objections is to insist on telling the truth. Administrators must have the courage to face the public… |
Sequence 2physiology. In the past, teeth were strong instruments meant for ripping and cutting. This little technological discovery, the… |
Sequence 3When Maria Montessori speaks of man, she often uses ::i c::ipit::il "M.'. What does this capital letter… |
Sequence 7a less visible prince but perhaps more dangerous than the ruling princes and kings of the past. Each of us here must achieve… |
Sequence 2In an earlier chapter of "A Good Enough Parent," Bettelheim describes studies which compare Japanese… |
Sequence 1CLAUDE CLAREMONT' S CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING by Harvey R. Hallenberg Claude A. Claremont… |
Sequence 9exception was in one of the Montessori classrooms, where a student, described by her teacher to have a mother addicted to… |
Sequence 13regular classrooms are deprived of the opportunity of helping them- sharing space with them, learning to nurture and to assume… |
Sequence 1WORLD MONTESSORI: RENEWAL THROUGH COOPERATION by David Kahn What is the task confronting education? It is above all the task… |
Sequence 2Chinese experience, a Russian experience, a Mexican experience, and so on. There is instead the universal child, the child… |
Sequence 4lecture extensively to wider audiences, including a combined session of the 53rd annual convention of the National Education… |
Sequence 6cation was perhaps best summarized by Anna Freud, daughter of the founder of modern psychiatry, when she wrote: In a Casadei… |
Sequence 1THE ORGANIZATION OF INTELLECTUAL WORK IN SCHOOL by Maria Montessori, MD Very closely related to the seminal writings o/The… |
Sequence 1MARIA MONTESSORI: w ORLD PEACE THROUGH THE CHILD by E. Mortimer Standing E. Mortimer Standing's remarks concerning… |
Sequence 3Because of their constant interaction, the children learn to take responsibility for themselves and for each other. They also… |
Sequence 3WHY NoT CONSIDER ERDKINDER? by Peter Gebhardt-Seele Answering possible objections and citing his own personal experiences,… |
Sequence 5to revolt. If self-construction is obstructed, deviation may occur, which can lead to an inferiority complex, maladjustment,… |
Sequence 12rewarded. We did trust her with our 6- to 12-year-olds. That was more of a challenge, because there is a competing model, the… |
Sequence 9with her husband. She was also a vet. The students who worked with her went early in the morning to help her with the hard,… |
Sequence 3Stephenson, Elementary Director of Training emerita of the Montes- sori Institute of Milwaukee. Not only does Lillard present… |
Sequence 26MARIA MONTESSORI ANO PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION During the two decades between the first publication of The Montessori Method 18 (… |
Sequence 28The Italian government did not join the IBE and thereby indirectly favored the dominating influence of the Geneva group of… |
Sequence 30nature of the method. 24 The final result was that, as Montessori herself writes: "The world of official education… |
Sequence 33In The Absorbent Mind, Montessori writes, "The child is endowed with unknown powers which can guide us to a radiant… |
Sequence 1MONTESSORI: A CARING PEDAGOGY by Elizabeth Hall In this Montessori manifesto of caring, Ms. Hall puts forward the impor-… |
Sequence 9was one of the most wonderful experiences of my Ufe. I really felt as though I was living with nature, without worrying about… |
Sequence 8attention most naturally? How can I capitalize on the natural interests of the student to draw her or him ever more deeply… |
Sequence 9students the opportunity to apply ideas to their per- sonal lives first. Thus, a Socratic Practice group may be studying… |
Sequence 3A most striking account of Maria Montessori's willingness to observe without prejudice is the episode of the child… |
Sequence 5It is remarkable that, even without a clear formulation of the different planes of development, an elementary school model… |
Sequence 6school operation as a whole, maintained by a young family. Thus the Erdkinder is teeming with so many opportunities for work… |
Sequence 6materials and equipment which are, or ought to be, found in any Montessori elementary environment. Each group representative… |
Sequence 15"IN Mv SERVICE Is PERFECT FREEDOM!" Some advanced Montessori training courses do not include the sixth… |
Sequence 18Each individual, each one of us, has a body made up of billions of cells (50 thousand billion, to be ex- act) and, from the… |
Sequence 20beings, the exploration of this aspect of human society, we usually identify as economic geography in our courses. Montessori… |
Sequence 32University of Vermont, where they held 750 high school Latin stu- dents spellbound in a gym during a presentation at Vermont… |
Sequence 5solutions. Quality of instruction declines accordingly, and with it goes the quality of learning opportunities for students.… |
Sequence 11for the needs of reading teachers, mathematics teachers are trying to reform mathematics instruction independently of science… |
Sequence 1NORMALIZATION by Eduardo J. Cuevas In a brief, direct essay about normalization summarizing the thematic focus of his… |
Sequence 3THE EPIC OF EVOLUTION CONFERENCE: TAKING THE JOURNEY BACK HOME by Kathleen Allen and Gerard Leonard Kathleen Allen and… |
Sequence 4As we listened to the current scientific knowledge and theologi- cal understanding of cosmic evolution, biological evolution,… |
Sequence 2ERDKINDER UNDER CONSTRUCTION: WHAT THE FARM SCHOOLS SHOWED Us by David Kahn Mr. Kahn is directing a project to start a farm… |
Sequence 320 years, have lacked any governing standard, any consensus of design, and any documentation. To help build the needed… |
Sequence 2to leave the setting of their school behind for an experience on a farm. Set on a mountain top and a tract of forest land, the… |
Sequence 3universe; for one must encounter the facts of nature so that the imagination can build its vision of the whole based in the… |
Sequence 4which evolves on its own terms. Like the child, as human culture grows with the passage of time, it becomes more conscious of… |
Sequence 2It has been said that change is of the essence-in our courses, in our schools, in ourselves. Perhaps it is not so much… |
Sequence 7of incalculable help to parents, social workers, child-care workers, family counselors-in short, to any person involved with… |
Sequence 3.. . by talking about Montessori edu- cation in terms of its theoretical roots, we are not talking about something which is… |
Sequence 4natural science and the humanities, of experimental research and speculative philosophy, of realistic description of facts and… |
Sequence 51. A GLOBAL ANO COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATIONAL CONCEPT If we agree that Maria Montessori developed a global and compre- hensive… |
Sequence 8If you take the time to study the publications of Maria Montessori thoroughly and carefully, you will find confirmed on every… |
Sequence 10Susanne Gunkel, one of my former doctoral students, wrote a master's thesis wherein she identified four basic principles… |
Sequence 11theories of a few other great educational philosophers of a similar caliber. Please note, I am speaking of a comparison… |