| To NURTURE THE HUMAN
PoTENTIAL
by David Kahn, Editor
When Maria Montessori looked to the child, she saw unlimited
human… |
| occupations, looking at new challenges in linking practical life and
experience with academic frameworks. Louise Chawla and… |
| CREATIVE ABILITY IN CHILDHOOD
by Maria Montessori
Dr. Montessori presented this lecture at the Eightlz l11ternatio11al… |
| NURTURING THE CREATIVE PERSONALITY
Rita Schaefer Zener, PhD
Exploring in careful sequence Dr. Montessori's writings… |
| concrete, real, and relevant to the lives of young children; (5) provid-
ing experiences for children that are outside of the… |
| (1936/1975, 1949/1961, 1949/1975). When the developmental pro-
cess proceeds normally, normalization occurs, and all four of… |
| ln a little girl of 3½, who attended our first school, the intensity
of this was amazing. With many interesting things on all… |
| child and the world of possible activities. The lessons that they offer,
the interventions they make to re-direct non-… |
| students performed higher than expected. In fact, the homeroom
teachers had to be convinced that is was really the students… |
| continuously remind ourselves and others of the creative power
within the child that we must trust. It calls on faith, a faith… |
| This Is a wonderful profession,
but It Is not easy. We must pro-
vide the structure for the soclal
group and have clear… |
| cannot be free without being independent, hence, in order to gain
independence, the active manifestations of personal liberty… |
| THE PLACE OF READING RECOVERY IN
MONTESSORI SCHOOLS
by Mary Maher Boehnlein, PhD
Dr. Boehnlein discusses the Reading… |
| A good reader
anticipates a possible sentence or discourse pattern and/or uses
repetition to confirm the sentence or… |
| cess rates. In the first Montessori school to implement Reading
Recovery, all of the six-year-olds (100% of the children… |
| While Montessorl's definition of reading
seems very similar to that of current ex-
perts, her explanation of how to… |
| word, the child can pronounce the sounds faster and faster, as Montessori
suggests, and pronounce the word. Montessori states… |
| The use of books which have repeated sentence patters with
changes in only one or two words helps overcome the problem… |
| Qf current research on the acquisition of literacy and of the currently
popular whole language approach. Reading Recovery,… |
| ber leopard. If not, then the teacher simply tells the child the word but
requires him or her to look at the word and run a… |
| COSMIC EDUCATION AND LITERATURE-
BASED TEACHING
by Daniel Bachhuber
Daniel Bachhuber provides a practical gttide to the… |
| multiplicity of forms (myths, legends, folklore, poems, nonfiction, short
stories, novels) with self-confidence intact,… |
| and meaning in the universe is one of the ways we provide a secure
environment. But we also create a context in which there is… |
| When we study a poem or a novel, children will know where to
place it in the history of literature. We make these choices as… |
| From the very beginning, children are presented with
and encouraged to compose whole texts-real
lan-
guage written for real… |
| Since we are not omniscient, we cannot completely know what is
in the child. Therefore, both Montessori and the whole language… |
| chapter is called "Discipline and the Teacher," and in it, Montessori is
sympathetic to the struggle of a… |
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where children need never experience the kind of total isolation Rogers
touches upon.… |
| part) of the disturbing hormonal changes of adolescence, the child of
9 to 12, Montessori believed, is a stronger learner than… |
| or your eye blinking
or a field of grass blowing in the
wind
Silence is perhaps a fish swimming
or a witch flying
or the… |
| is a question they often think about. How did something get the
way it is? They ask this question about animals, about apples… |
| Conclusion
It may be obvious that the practical suggestions I have introduced
only scratch the surface of the research and… |
| Hopkins, L.B. (1987). Pass the poetry, please. New York: Harper
Collins Children's Books.
Koch, K. (1970). Wishes, lies… |
| TOWARD KEY EXPERIENCES FOR THE
ADOLESCENT
by John Long
John Long compares the early-childhood and adolescent levels of… |
| after hour, day after day, is a prison sentence. They need activity.
They need to be up and down. They need to do physical… |
| Montessori reminded us that our students are training for the
intellectual professions (1948/1973, p. 99), but we are not… |
| the silo. They need to sweep the barn. They need to prepare lunch for
10 people or for 200. They need to plan and organize and… |
| announcements of upcoming events and advertising posters. They
need to write biographies of historical characters, of… |
| The work of this stage of development is adaptation to social life.
The adolescent is vulnerable to the development of all… |
| Part II: Valorization, Normalization, and the Key Experiences
The comparison of the
adolescent and the very
young child can… |
| How is valorization accomplished? It is through work, by activ-
ity, by experience, by action, by being active with one's… |
| The normalized child displays all of the characteristics familiar
to experienced Montessori teachers: love of order, love of… |
| Experience for the sake of experience is not the goal. It is not the
intent to merely make education fun. Experiences are a… |
| The Nature of Experience
What are the characteristics of key experiences?
"The Thing that is important above… |
| They build upon one another. Every ending is a new beginning.
They must be understood as a whole-they must be correlated. They… |
| and intolerance of others-especially others who are or appear differ-
ent. There are the universal put-downs, the hurtful and… |
| THE ROOTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN
by Louise Chawla, PhD, and Roger A. Hart, PhD
Louise Chawla and Roger A. Hart present a… |
| According to Kenneth Strike's analysis (1982, p. 214), two educa-
tional strategies are possible prescriptions to… |
| (2) Class position. Making students into numbers and segregat-
ing them in classes trains them to stay in their place.
(3)… |
| What Tolstoy and
Montessori
saw so
clearly and worked so
hard to eradicate were
the barriers which tra-
ditional… |
| Montessori writes:
... every living creature possesses the power to choose, in a
complex and many sided environment, that… |
| emphasizing the "knowledge and skills that might ensure a more
responsive culture" (Shapiro, 1993, p. 299)… |
| a need for whole men. Every side of the human personality must
function. A young person may have special aptitudes in some… |
| Haberman, M. (1991). The pedagogy of poverty versus good
teaching. Phi Delta K.appan, 73(4).
Hannaford, I. (1994, Spring).… |
| IN MEMORIAM
ELISE BRAUN BARNETT
1904-1994
On November 20, 1994, the Montessori community lost a tireless lover of
children… |
| In 1938, with the help of friends in India, she and her family managed to leave
Austria before the War. She was to spend nine… |
| Dr. Maria Montessori (1870-1952) was the first woman physician
of her native country, Italy. She became interested in… |
| speed, according to his own capacities in a non-competitive atmo-
sphere. The teacher introduces the didactic material… |
| First, identities are to be recognized; then a few strongly contrast-
ing stimuli are presented, followed by gradual… |
| It seems strange that it is the rhythm in music and not the melody
to which children show their first active response. When… |
| IN MEMORIAM
NANCY McCORMICK RAMBUSCH
1927-1994
Nancy McCormick Rambusch,founder of the American Montessori Society, died
of… |
| NAMTANEWS
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Conference Projects
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