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Sequence 1511 IN MY SERVICE Is PERFECT FREEDOM!" Some advanced Montessori training courses do not include the sixth great story… |
Sequence 1511 IN MY SERVICE Is PERFECT FREEDOM!" Some advanced Montessori training courses do not include the sixth great story… |
Sequence 3Baylol", Byrd: I don't remembel' which book l found fil'st, but since then, it's become an… |
Sequence 1MURIEL DWYER: ON THE WAY TO THE AIRPORT by David Kahn Although Ms. Dwyer has written a short pamphlet entitled Key to… |
Sequence 3Guthrie, L. & Hall, W. (1984). Ethnographic approaches to reading research. In P.David Pearson (Ed.), Handbook of… |
Sequence 5ful reproduction; ironically, to the degree that those immigrant families who were working in the sweat shops were having more… |
Sequence 6perfectly normal thing to do. Ms. A: Yes, I think that's what I mean. Mr. B: Well, aren't some strange behaviors… |
Sequence 11Mr. B: But conscience urges us to do right, not just to keep from doing wrong. Mr. C: Well, maybe we really don't need… |
Sequence 6to the discovery of the value of motifs and symbols in intensifying the meaning of that remarkable story. The story fits… |
Sequence 5Dr. Montessori was convinced that there was one human nature, but that it manifested itself at a superior level or lower level… |
Sequence 7Education is the help we must give to life so that it may develop in the greatness of its powers. Our plan is to help life to… |
Sequence 2"Man himself must become the center of education and we must never forget that man does not develop only at… |
Sequence 3great dissatisfaction when she learned that I was a medical doctor and at that time a pediatrician. It was evident that she… |
Sequence 7satisfying relationships and of passing on that ability to their children. But in unstable homes, where parents, often single… |
Sequence 5director (and occupied this charge until his deathi Branches are func- tioning in many European, Asian, and American countries… |
Sequence 6were conducted with sufficient fidelity to the method, and the name was sometimes used as if it were an advertisement. The… |
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 2something of it, although love can go far beyond that knowledge. Knowl- edge, however, must be there as a starting point. Love… |
Sequence 4the impression that after a while nothing "new" is seen. Deeper pene- tration and more discoveries require… |
Sequence 107) discipline (orderly and disorderly conduct, obedience, quiet); 8) gen- eral remarks; 9) d,ai,e. These reports are signed by… |
Sequence 1KEEPING IN TOUCH WITH MONTESSORI ROOTS An Interview with Mildred Gunawardena In an interview with Damd Kahn, Mildred Guna:… |
Sequence 3These families all have something in common - they are outside of the mainstream of their communities and have little, if any… |
Sequence 1about change effectively. In making the change process explicit, I want to make it clear chat I'm not talking about… |
Sequence 2systems. And of course, another irony is that those who preach change always preach how someone else should go about change,… |
Sequence 7teachers in a position to say how they are going co go about pursuing this goal, this change that they want to do. Will we use… |
Sequence 2the common experience for fashioning questions in the right way to reveal what they know, rather than just revealing… |
Sequence 9S. I Hiyakawa, who was my president out at San Francisco State, is a wonderful person. When Dr. Hiyakawa was running for… |
Sequence 12The Struggle to Restructure This, chen, brings me to my ninth point. It seems to me chat at the fundamental levd, school… |
Sequence 12Bue I think there were other aspects that affected the good testers as well. They began co talk about tests, about "… |
Sequence 6altar for their First Communion. 19 The practical work of learning composting techniques, maintaining and enhancing the… |
Sequence 2GL. How best do you see us helping children, especially the adolescents who are moving towards taking their place in the… |
Sequence 6which is trying to become a self-sustaining community in relationship with the plants, the animals, the landscape, the humans… |
Sequence 7difficulties. Now there is a tendency to do away with tensions by eliminating difference rather than harmonizing difference… |
Sequence 5le was in chis spirit thac she undercook further scientific study of chil- dren. They were to her fellow human beings who… |
Sequence 7Opportunities occur every day co enrich the child's vocabulary. The following activities are very useful and can be… |
Sequence 4We have the legacy of Dr. Montessori's work passed down to us like a guiding light for our mission today. Dr. Montessori… |
Sequence 1THE MONTESSORI ADOLESCENT: FRAMEWORKS FOR INVENTION by David Kahn Extrapolating from the primary and elementary curriculum… |
Sequence 3rationalistic, deterministic view. The educational environments she cre- ated were clear alternatives to the traditional… |
Sequence 16I. Organizational change is natural and fundamental; organizations are always in Aux. 2. Mose imporranc organizational… |
Sequence 3Montessori views personal autonomy as interconnected with social re- sponsibility and the evolution of human societies. The… |
Sequence 6but also because it listed Maria Montessori as one of the four visionary educators of the century whose work was instrumental… |
Sequence 24Minsky, M. 0985). The Society of Mind. New York: Simon and Schuster. Montanero, S. Q. 0991). Understanding the Human Being:… |
Sequence 5physical limits of the prepared environment and builds the child's critical attention around a span of the concept.… |
Sequence 6it. Here are the symbols for the ~ansitive and the intransitive, the infinitive, and the verb to be for auxiliary use. Of… |
Sequence 9at you!te show- • fs you're showing the child with this work is not only the ability to parse-to recognize the parts… |
Sequence 17The other type is contagious magic, which says that things once in contact are always in contact. Now, that is at the root of… |
Sequence 4re you willing.to be open d to abando,n the com- n presupposition ejudice) that "children ed 'to have ~ hot… |
Sequence 11peer modeling and peer support to the new people. Another way to elicit parental cooperation is to get a first child started… |
Sequence 3Dr. Montessori expressed her hope "for a normal development, that fortunately does not depend on what we attempt to… |
Sequence 6These two territories became the properties of the societies and nations of man, as time went on, and the story of man was… |
Sequence 8Around six, the child un- dergoes a greattransfor- mation. He is now no longer satisfied with the society of his family and… |
Sequence 11logical characteristics and each needs a prepared adult to help the individual help himself. The four planes of development… |
Sequence 12product of a Casa dei Bambini and a Montessori elementary class which have followed vigorously Dr. Montessori's formula… |
Sequence 22But Or. Montessorl's pri- mary concern for the ado-, lescent was that he should be allowed a life of activ- ity and… |
Sequence 23contacts. Running the shop would necessitate a study of commerce and exchange, of supply and demand, of the rules of book-… |
Sequence 27achieving the development of the human personality, rather than the narrower one of providing culture only, then a close… |
Sequence 6rule must be introduced at a time when it is essential; it must be explained, it must be enforced consistently, and it will… |
Sequence 1F~&A~--------------- MARIA MoNTFSSOm's CONTRIBUTION To nm CULTIVATION OF TIIE MATIIEMATICAL MIND by Mario M.… |
Sequence 7bars of four are added. This makes the two sides reach the value of seven. To complete the square of seven, a space is left… |
Sequence 12The children spent most of !heir time in teacher-directed large- group activities, and ... most of their language behavior was… |
Sequence 2and must be carried out by teachers in their own classrooms. Although much verbal agreement has been given to this original… |
Sequence 1F~I'-------------------- BREAKTHROUGH IN EvoLunoN: TowARD A PARTNERSIDP FUITJRE by Riane Eisler Jn The Chalice and… |
Sequence 1P~----------- TRum IN PARENTING by David Kahn Expen·ence has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our… |
Sequence 8the teacher must awaken the spirit of the child. They considered the moral preparation of the teacher to be the key to… |
Sequence 18behavior and learning such as posture and coordination, the development of directionality and laterality, and the development… |
Sequence 3of life when young people lhrive on real life experience and active involvement. And lhe adults seemed to the adolescent… |
Sequence 10ment, parents often feel differently about continuing if it is an option to go directly into high school after finishing… |
Sequence 6discoveries. He also becomes aware of his class-mates in whom he takes an affectionate interest" (Montessori, 1949/… |
Sequence 4students performed higher than expected. In fact, the homeroom teachers had to be convinced that is was really the students… |
Sequence 18If Luria was correct about inner speech being the mechanism that "feeds" the development of the frontal… |
Sequence 136If Luria was correct about inner speech being the mechanism that "feeds" the development of the frontal… |
Sequence 164students performed higher than expected. In fact, the homeroom teachers had to be convinced that is was really the students… |
Sequence 180discoveries. He also becomes aware of his class-mates in whom he takes an affectionate interest" (Montessori, 1949/… |
Sequence 18example, I should discuss the Montessori method and its practical working with any student who asks me, I should not discuss… |
Sequence 4that distinguishes bluntly between dumb and smart. It's who we are. It's a quarter inch below the surface all the… |
Sequence 14• Good and strong preparation of teachers/ guides Two quotes follow, giving us food for thought about the future. First, in… |
Sequence 17and needs, then you have to create the environment. Even if it's not necessary to get a job at IBM, that's okay; if… |
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 29willing to compromise. 23 As far as she was concerned, selecting some aspects of the method and excluding others meant… |
Sequence 2Our long-range planning committee developed a task force to study full-day programs. The task force was comprised of all the… |
Sequence 2The characteristics we came up with were described from a student's point of view. For example, the first one is: A… |
Sequence 15"IN Mv SERVICE Is PERFECT FREEDOM!" Some advanced Montessori training courses do not include the sixth… |
Sequence 10Here is how another skater describes the utter absorption when one feels that a performance is going well: It was just one of… |
Sequence 12Rock climbers are particularly eloquent on this score: "It's a pleasant feeling of total involvement. You become… |
Sequence 3oversee a capital campaign drive. We were, instead, drawn by the vision of the whole child-and then put ourselves in service… |
Sequence 4Wall, and he finally got to what now is Beijing and took over. When the pager went off, the teacher wrote down that this was… |
Sequence 7But before we do that, let me talk a little bit about what these activities are like. After I did these original interviews,… |
Sequence 12little defensive self, but you are part of something bigger, larger. If you sing in a choir or play with a group, a symphony… |
Sequence 17with friends, social situations, or reading for pleasure. Worry and anxiety happen a lot in school; they happen a lot on the… |
Sequence 31A: That's really difficult because you find, for instance, there have been very good studies that show that if you get a… |
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 4Many people can be in extremely stimulating situations-in a ski re- sort, with an tndoor swimming pool, and cilll kinds of… |
Sequence 9And I said, "Well, don't worry. Just go out and stop people in the street and within half an hour you will find… |
Sequence 14forms of life, makes us able to do a lot of different things. It makes us able, for instance, to think of ourselves as a… |
Sequence 20every day and some once a week; some say, "I had one experience like that 20 years ago and that's it."… |
Sequence 22clergymen from England who started visiting the Alps and wrote up how beautiful and majestic these things were, and they… |
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 18A: Gatekeepers usually develop historically in very funny ways. You don't know exactly who will be entitled to be a… |
Sequence 25interesting is a list distilled from the study of these hundred people. Of course, the first one is familiar; we talked about… |
Sequence 28Every one of the people we interviewed has the same rhythm. It may be a daily rhythm, that is, they work alone from 7 in the… |