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Sequence 41CINCINNATI: DEVELOPING THE MONTESSORI MAGNET SCHOOL by Phyllis J. Williams Building and Grounds Crew North Avondale… |
Sequence 42is through our children. Peace through education in an environment that allows for mixed human experiences, facilitates the… |
Sequence 43• Montessori trained and certified teachers and administrators representing both the Association Montessori Internationale… |
Sequence 465. Page and Paragraph - The teacher writes questions regarding the story and the child writes the page a:Q.d para- graph… |
Sequence 47THE MAROTTA MONTESSORI SCHOOL: A CONCEPT DEDICATED TO URBAN RENEWAL by Alcillia Jones Clifford There is an urgent calling… |
Sequence 51RED CLOUD INDIAN SCHOOUS MONTESSORI PROGRAM by Joseph A. Fairbanks Red Cloud Indian School is located on the Pine Ridge… |
Sequence 52recommend it to the school and community on the Pine Ridge Reser- vation, and even to the state of South Dakota. The location… |
Sequence 60THE MONTESSORI RESEARCH: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE by Mary Maher Boehnlein, Ph.D Introduction Leonardo da Vinci said,… |
Sequence 62literature. The most striking result of this review ofliterature is that even when the results were positive, the essence of… |
Sequence 634. A classroom not fully equipped with the full range of commercial and handmade materials, or a classroom in which the… |
Sequence 64mathematical achievement on the Standard school tests. Kimmins asked that he be allowed to administer a series of individual… |
Sequence 65lems, an interesting result occurred. Montessori children did not score higher than the other children until later in… |
Sequence 66Dame in 1969, tested the children at the conclusion of their Montes- sori preschool and found them superior on measures of… |
Sequence 67accelerated as a consequence of using the Montessori materials. Subjects were in their second year in three different… |
Sequence 68acquire more "school-type" behaviors. Most of these studies were done in the 1960's and were in Head… |
Sequence 69Montessori casa curriculum. The list was then equated with each age task on the Stanford-Binet intelligence scale. Children… |
Sequence 70seems to be a result of developmental influences alone or direct instruction. O'Hern's study in 1932 examined the… |
Sequence 71refute the early and continuing criticism that because Montessori preschool children work individually they are not developing… |
Sequence 72early diagnosis and therapy and early socialization. He states that the use of the Montessori method has helped handicapped… |
Sequence 74tions differed depending upon whether or not she was present when the behavior ocurred. Turner (1978) designed a test for… |
Sequence 75development, and the disadvantaged child; second, teacher training and teacher and teaching differences; and third, the… |
Sequence 76Boehnlein, Mary. (1984). A study of college/uruversity accredited Montessori teacher training programs. NAMTA Quarterly, 9, 49… |
Sequence 77McCormick, C. & Schnobich, J. (1969). IES Arrow-Dot performance in two Montessori preschools. Perceptual Motor Skills… |
Sequence 79CHILD-INITIATED ACTIVITY: HOW IMPORTANT IS IT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION? by Lawrence J. Schweinhart Child-initiated… |
Sequence 89BUILDING CORRELATIONS: COSMIC EDUCATION AND MORAL DEVELOPMENT Part One by David Kahn Looking at the classical Montessori… |
Sequence 90I be missed by one who polishes beads and hangs the children's art- but does not see beyond what the child is doing… |
Sequence 91But let us not diminish the prepared environment. The elemen- tary child has a kinship to the biological world which we bring… |
Sequence 92and discontinuity that renders such interventions incompatible with the more general aims of teachers and students. Even the… |
Sequence 94Universe imparts, or perhaps evokes. a feeling orientation, an appre- ciation for life which is part training, and which… |
Sequence 99country's and state's histories. American leaders of the 19th century believed that no nation could survive, let… |
Sequence 100work that is being done, as servants help the master. Doing so, they will be witnesses to the unfolding of the human soul and… |
Sequence 105ONE WORLD, ONE DRUM by Tom Sipes My first teaching assignment was in a Catholic seminary in East Africa, in the town of… |
Sequence 106credits include the percussion soundtrack to the movie Apocalypse Now and percussion consultant to the Smithsonian Institution… |
Sequence 108NAMTANEWS: NAMTAPLANSURBANSTUDY Fifty or so public school districts involved with Montessori must deal with Montessori… |
Sequence 113Personals: POSITIONS AVAILABLE CALIFORNIA PRIMARY AND/OR ELEMENTARY Direc- tor/ress for Northern California. The school… |
Sequence 114Elementary positions available to teach both lower level class (6-9) and upper level class (9- 12). The Montessori School of… |
Sequence 115ALCUIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL, estab- lished 1961. Five primary-all extended day; five elementary. Montessorian as full-time… |
Sequence 117OHIO Cincinnati Public Schools needs four 6-12 trained teacher beginning September 1987. Send letters of inquiry and resumes… |
Sequence 118Ghent Montessori School seeking August 1987 Primary (3-6) and Elementary (6-9) trained teachers. Established school of 110… |
Sequence 119future growth. The school has current enroll- ment of 15 students with a capacity for 28. Sale price includes a building with… |
Sequence 3THE MONTESSORI PARENT COMMITMENT Of Roots and Wings by David Kahn… |
Sequence 5OF ROOTS AND WINGS by David Kahn A philosophical outlook on the parent's role in Montessm-i, educa- tion, this article… |
Sequence 8hold you in the office it made me sad for the first time. I stopped thinking how happy you made us and felt for you having had… |
Sequence 11Total concentration is a dual process. There is the concentration of the child; lips pursed, back curved, eyes unrelentingly… |
Sequence 12children's learning better if they are generalists learning about the nitrogen cycle, or the change of the seasons, or… |
Sequence 13just intellectual ones. For example, the social relations of the school are like little prairie fires flaring up and dying… |
Sequence 14the house are handled by paid staff. The cleaning lady does the interi- or; a handyman may do the outside-responsible demands… |
Sequence 16these are values of the home reinforced in the school setting. Inciden- tally, the Curriculum for Caring was conceived and… |
Sequence 21instructional activities that will help children develop the learning-to- learn skills and behaviors associated with school… |
Sequence 23Classroom Observations Parents were invited to spend an hour observing in their child's classroom during the Fall… |
Sequence 24School Information Night This meeting was a review of the accomplishments of the Montessori p1·ogram during the first year… |
Sequence 25Ethnic Group Total Black Hispanic Anglo Asian (n=175) Activity (n=41) (n=47) (n=84) (n=3) Montessori and traditional… |
Sequence 26stability to the school and continuity of instruction for many of its students. Table 3 Attrition in the Denver Montessori… |
Sequence 27Summary and Conclusion During its first year of implementation, the Montessori program in the Denver Public Schools made… |
Sequence 29ELEMENTARY MONTESSORI AND PARENT EDUCATION by John McNamara Mr. McNamara's poignant description of children and parents… |
Sequence 33I want students to be able to answer the question-What is a Mon- tessori school?-and to be very much conscious of what we are… |
Sequence 34What about a new student? I can use the following comment from a new sixth grade girl. To me a Montessori school is a very… |
Sequence 35I strongly urge Montessori directors and directresses to collect com- ments by their students on Montessori education. I began… |
Sequence 36final point. It is the passages that characterize the Montessori Method. If we say the passages are not the important thing we… |
Sequence 50Sociability Watch the ways in which the children offer asistance to one another-with the materials and with everyday tasks-… |
Sequence 105THE NATURE AND THEORY OF SILENCE ACTIVITIES IN THE CHILDREN'S HOUSE by Mary Black Verschuur Ph.D With the incisiveness… |
Sequence 106Culturally too, silence has many interpretations. Within our society silence can be construed as inferring compliance or… |
Sequence 108Montessori did, however, write extensively on the will and the development of will in young children. Later interpreters of… |
Sequence 111could make the children silent and yet claim freedom. The age-old misconceptions of freedom and discipline surfaced for… |
Sequence 114Mr. Montessori stressed, however, that these lofty aims can only be sought by the individual exercise of will power. No amount… |
Sequence 117MURIEL DWYER: ON THE WAY TO THE AIRPORT by David Kahn Although Ms. Dwyer has written a short pamphlet entitled Key to… |
Sequence 118Dwye1·: Well, yes of course it does relate to being able to decode; some call that reading, although it is only a small part… |
Sequence 119is fundamentally outgoing. Then he must have the experiences, suffi- ciently wide experiences, and the language that goes with… |
Sequence 126EDITORIAL: AMI MONTESSORI: BACK TO THE FUTURE By David Kahn We are in the turmoil of becoming. And as one undergoes the… |
Sequence 127of beliefs, its ability to ignite the enthusiasm and commitment of teach- ers, stems from a spiritual and undiluted energy… |
Sequence 130There is, in AMI circles, an evolving sense of a need to build linkages between the integral idea and the experimental… |
Sequence 131intensity of the Montessori vision that makes the system work; knowl- edge of the materials is bound by the interiority of the… |
Sequence 132tofight mediocrity, and renew our own fires by returning to the first flames, the sources of Montessori. These sources are,… |
Sequence 138CHICAGO, ILLINOIS April 15-17, 1988 MAC-NAMTA CONFERENCE PRINCIPLES OF STAFF DYNAMICS This conference will be particularly… |
Sequence 140Personals: Postio11s Available ARIZONA Montessori Teache1· with 2 year AMI Training & 2 yrs experience in AMI… |
Sequence 145School, 372 Hiden Blvd., Newport News, VA 23606. (804) 596-2555. WASHINGTON Cathedral Montessori School is located in… |
Sequence 150146 Jon R. Osterkom Died December 7, 1987 Most 'Will remember Jmi Oster/wrn fer his frwrul,ly and upbeat voice… |
Sequence 3SOWING THE SEEDS OF THE SCIENCES Part I Origins of Montessori Sciences........................................... 1 The… |
Sequence 7Observation, classification, abstraction and symbolism are essential elements of the human mind. Is it surprising then that… |
Sequence 10some leaf shapes in the garden and asked the children between eight and ten to memorize their names in the presence of the… |
Sequence 15followed until all the strips have been placed. Then the teacher takes one of the corresponding booklets and slowly, page by… |
Sequence 24Montessori: You had to construct the environment in order for the animal to live. For each animal there was a special… |
Sequence 25depend on sunshine, water, earth, men and animals. This is a real aspect of the world's functioning. We saw purpose in… |
Sequence 27child can experience in nature that there is something eternal, present everywhere and always, which seems to have organized… |
Sequence 28Part II Montessori and Science Today In 1988, it is important to look at ongoing development of science activity in relation… |
Sequence 33place and teacher, leaving impressions which incubate in the absorbent mind. Those experiences remain even while the conscious… |
Sequence 63twelve years. In 1948 she writes, "This plan of Cosmic Education as a foundation stone of the ADVANCED METHOD was… |
Sequence 65his self-made environment in a condition that may permit human life to evolve toward a dignified existence for everyone. This… |
Sequence 66Doesn't it sound like falling back into the ways of earlier educators, defining goals for education in looking at the… |
Sequence 67If the idea of the universe is presented to the child in the right way, it will do more for him than just arouse his interest… |
Sequence 69Physics sometimes is seen as dealing with the lifeless nature as opposed to biology dealing with life in nature. It is true… |
Sequence 70placement is that all these experiments provide fundamental impres- sions, sensorial experiences or understanding of phenomena… |
Sequence 85COSMIC EDUCATION: SOWING LIFE, NOT THEORIES by David Kahn This is an attempt to clarify the role of Cosmic Education in… |
Sequence 88have little to do with science for science's sake, but rather is an expres- sion of a philosophical view which in turn… |
Sequence 89slogan of the past, but now Montessori implies that the same sentiment could "be developed on a scientific plan, and… |
Sequence 90Work as the cosmic expression is ever a necessity of life and a joy; its shirking means extinction, the doom of original… |
Sequence 94This not to abandon the scientific rigors of the material to be pre- sented to the child. Montessori is quite clear in that… |
Sequence 106EXPLORING WITH THE NINE TO TWELVE CHILD by Kathleen Futrell Delineating a master portrait of a Montessori "upper… |
Sequence 115Professor Allan Bloom, who wrote The Closing of the American Mind, judges today's University students as, "young… |
Sequence 119the inanimate object and to acquire relationships with other human objects such as friends or teachers. This is a milestone… |