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Sequence 1TRANSITION: URBAN MONTESSORI SECONDARY TO ERDKINDER by David Kahn A survey of the current Montessori urban secondary… |
Sequence 17Boehnlein, Mary. (1984). A study of college/uruversity accredited Montessori teacher training programs. NAMTA Quarterly, 9, 49… |
Sequence 1A TIME TO READ By Peggy Kahn All children have to start at the beginning, exploring first what they can reach out and touch… |
Sequence 15Footnotes 'Maria Montessori (1948) To Educate the Human Potential 5th Edition 1973, Kalakshetra Publica- tions Press,… |
Sequence 2the use of video-taped observations. She also depended on the random- ness of the assignment of the children to compensate for… |
Sequence 7feelings of others. Why couldn't he pursue his mission and still be accepted by others? Seems to me he'd have a… |
Sequence 4The sick body draws itself, the "body without organs" of the philoso- phers illustrates itself, evicted,… |
Sequence 8whether it can be done on a sufficient scale under present conditions? And the best guess is, probably not. That is why so… |
Sequence 2for uniting the family and the school with a passionate plea for respect- ing the culture of the home, especially the culture… |
Sequence 2for uniting the family and the school with a passionate plea for respect- ing the culture of the home, especially the culture… |
Sequence 19Ass~MEN'f AND REFORM by Ramsay Selden The "right kind of assessment, " asserts Ramsay Selden, can… |
Sequence 9S. I Hiyakawa, who was my president out at San Francisco State, is a wonderful person. When Dr. Hiyakawa was running for… |
Sequence 3Maybe, as I came to be more at home in the world, understanding more of what's really in it and how it works, the dark… |
Sequence 6coverage in the Washington Post. NAMTA, with its specialization in media, will manage the publications and videos resulting… |
Sequence 12coverage in the Washington Post. NAMTA, with its specialization in media, will manage the publications and videos resulting… |
Sequence 1EDITORIAL REINVENTING MONTESSORI: PERILS AND POSSIBILITIES by David Kahn To what degree is the fundamental test of… |
Sequence 12danced. That is the one group of stories in which you should change your normal voice; tell them quickly and keep the rhythm.… |
Sequence 14NAMTANEWs The Montessori Academy Is Full A new kind of summer program intended to encourage depth, The Montessori Academy… |
Sequence 8sensitive period pertinent to each age group, activity, and spontaneous passing into abstraction were possible for the… |
Sequence 1REsHAPING EARLY CHIIDHOOD INrnRVENTION To BE A MoRE EFFECTIVE WEAPON AGAINST POVER1Y by Edward Zigler, PhD Drawing on his… |
Sequence 1F~I'-------------------- BREAKTHROUGH IN EvoLunoN: TowARD A PARTNERSIDP FUITJRE by Riane Eisler Jn The Chalice and… |
Sequence 2concrete, real, and relevant to the lives of young children; (5) provid- ing experiences for children that are outside of the… |
Sequence 184concrete, real, and relevant to the lives of young children; (5) provid- ing experiences for children that are outside of the… |
Sequence 3phasic plan converging on maturity: the maturity of children, the matu- rity of teachers and parents, the maturity of… |
Sequence 13Mary: I allow my little boy to dress in the kitchen. Usually he wants to stay near me at the start of the day. Sally: I… |
Sequence 10You want them to get busy with all the things I saw out here in the exhibits. You want them to see a banquet out there. You… |
Sequence 1NAMTA's MONTESSORI ADOLESCENT PROJECT The spirit and energy currently surrounding work toward Montessori adolescent… |
Sequence 1This is the first year of NAMT A's Administrators' Group, an attempt to forge stronger relationships between… |
Sequence 3Although there is no genealogical link to the Montessori world, several Montessori educators, including David Kahn, executive… |
Sequence 10more appropriate path. Both programs provide specific behavioral suggestions for leaders that may provide helpful scaffolding… |
Sequence 9personnel, we had seven storytellers. The list of storytellers during those two years was wide-ranging: • Rod Alexander,… |
Sequence 17In any case, I remind the students, their job is not to retell Homer word for word, but rather to present the story in their… |
Sequence 19If you're getting kias to do good stuff in order to please you, With• out a sticker in sight, you have a problem. If… |
Sequence 3It set me on a path of discovery, I guess, because I'm attracted to people who are what I call great teachers. I usually… |
Sequence 19Q: Since we've been at a conference that has discussed ultimacy, that is, the destiny of the universe and the destiny of… |
Sequence 20own culture. We're better people than that"-not to say, "Oh, don't do that. We've got to go… |
Sequence 18have to go down to Chile to find that. The answer, then, that I am suggesting is again the material appetite-the reason why… |
Sequence 5Figure 1 suggests that the vision and understanding of Erdkinder must come through a variety of pathways, beginning with… |
Sequence 6Montessori tells us that the adolescent wants to experience roles in society outside of the family. In order to create… |
Sequence 2DISCOVERING THE REAL SPIRITUAL CHILD (PART 1) by Sofia Cavalletti Sofia Cavalletti cites Montessori's description of… |
Sequence 1t ~ ----------------------- FINDING THE ARTIST WITHIN: A CHALLENGE FOR MONTESSORIANS by David Kahn In March, 1998, NAMTA… |
Sequence 4Six-year-old girls dressed in white aprons and scarves are making no-bake cookies in the public kindergarten class of… |
Sequence 1THE CHILD AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT by Molly O'Shaughnessy Molly O'Shaughnessy has written a definitive article… |
Sequence 8Critical Thinking as a Form of Creative Expression Oftentimes in school children are asked to memorize and repeat. What is… |
Sequence 9--------------------------------~-- But memorize-and-repeat leads to a narrow kind of learning. This approach all too often… |
Sequence 40--------------------------------~-- But memorize-and-repeat leads to a narrow kind of learning. This approach all too often… |
Sequence 41Critical Thinking as a Form of Creative Expression Oftentimes in school children are asked to memorize and repeat. What is… |
Sequence 123THE CHILD AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT by Molly O'Shaughnessy Molly O'Shaughnessy has written a definitive article… |
Sequence 175Six-year-old girls dressed in white aprons and scarves are making no-bake cookies in the public kindergarten class of… |
Sequence 3Presenters at the Innovation within Limits Seminar E. Thomas Casey, registered architect, came to the Taliesin Fellowship in… |
Sequence 2COSMIC EDUCATION by Margaret E. Stephenson Cosmic Education is, in a way, what we have been leading up to all these days,… |
Sequence 23excitement in Jiving. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as… |
Sequence 20on and found their children strikingly independent, good natured, and well adjusted. Two regional papers, including the… |
Sequence 7with the soul-space in the surrounding world. Knowledge is a pres- ence of two beings in a single psychic space. One of the… |
Sequence 22overall melody and intonation. It's just like perceiving music. Chil- dren really are quite good at perceiving music.… |
Sequence 34assuming they're in a normal language environment. It really does show how good their little brains are at learning the… |
Sequence 8primary and elementary classes. Dr. Montessori attempted to show us that in the child we are dealing with a human being and… |
Sequence 2Erdkinder Atlanta: Danish? Joosten: Yes, there are some schools there. But these are for prestige, not yet for education.… |
Sequence 20What happened? What made this unique culture? I've argued, and I think I can make the argument very briefly this morning… |
Sequence 12to follow an indigenous Aztec pattern of development. That's a very cruel thing to say, but it's absolutely true.… |
Sequence 5Criticism of democracy has ea used the biggest trouble in my own life-not only in reviews but also after lectures-and some… |
Sequence 24progression of mathematical concepts from Algebra I to Algebra II to Trigonometry, culminating in Calculus. Mr. Miller also… |
Sequence 3Appropriately enough, although Dan was almost certain and a few of us suspected that our data might be off, we did not fully… |
Sequence 7Do they love them? Yes, they do. Do they want to do those little fasteners? Yes, they do. My granddaughter, at seventeen… |
Sequence 9A: Flipping up and down-I don't know ifl' d recommend flipping up and down with toddlers, because they'll try… |
Sequence 17At this same school, the children in the early school care program would come to one building to have their breakfast and do… |
Sequence 1LIFETIME DEVELOPMENT AS SEEN THROUGH THE FIRST THREE YEARS OF LIFE by Judi Orion Early development shapes one's… |
Sequence 6before you can be really sure that they're never going to have a lapse in toileting. And, of course, given the conditions… |
Sequence 7fails to challenge children from an infant community, who, you re- member, have been actively involved in practical life… |
Sequence 8child said, "Well, I think the people in Kosovo and Croatia need the light to stop fighting. And other people need… |
Sequence 13Prepare the environment for the child's interest. And then after preparing the environment and after introducing all… |
Sequence 9(although this may well be- come a thirty-minute period as fitness levels rise). The time scheduled for the fitness… |
Sequence 1PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, AND EDUCATIONAL GOALS FOR THE MONTESSORI ADOLESCENT, AGES TWELVE TO FIFTEEN by David Kahn This… |
Sequence 32the room, we find it's information that we've heard before. And it's nice to be validated as teachers to know… |
Sequence 11that division of labor also made possible the exploitation of labor. Hunter-gatherers could not really exploit each other.… |
Sequence 4nism. This red-baiting took its toll on our new teacher, who felt personally attacked and resigned just before school started… |
Sequence 7our school, unbeknownst to me, was relationships between the school director (me) and the teachers. "Oh, yes, she… |
Sequence 10they did it with ninety-eight percent efficiency. The spacecraft would be headed to the moon, but it wasn't quite on… |
Sequence 2BUILDINGS THAT NURTURE by Victor Sidy Using principles of Frank Lloyd Wright and Maria Montessori, Victor Sidy has created a… |
Sequence 10Inside the classrooms, we configured the lighting and heating/ cooling ducts to accommodate an open vaulted ceiling rather… |
Sequence 7baby to fall in Jove with one another (Uvnas-Moberg). Thus breastfeeding assists the baby in becoming pleasure tolerant and… |
Sequence 5measuring levels of engagement. NAMTA plans to explore flow in relation to all stages of development as well as to review best… |
Sequence 4Goal theory and optimal experience theory link well to Montessori pedagogy. Goal theory identifies two kinds of goals: task… |
Sequence 11each of the sounds that we use when we speak has a picture of itself, just like the photograph we can have of ourselves. In so… |
Sequence 17it does depend on you. If you try to make it something formal, I do not think it will happen. You just have to either have the… |
Sequence 13It must be stressed that this stage is of the utmost importance both for the young children and for those who emer school at… |
Sequence 2THE ADOLESCENT AND THE f AMILY: LOVE AND LIMITS by Linda Davis Linda Davis characterizes the adolescent's time in life… |
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 12Montessori, Maria. "A New Education for the Secondary School: A Public Lecture Given at Utrecht, January 18, 1937 (… |
Sequence 2PROJECT 2012: HISTORY WHITHER BOUND FROM CHILDHOOD TO ADOLESCENCE? PHILOSOPHICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PREMISES by David Kahn… |
Sequence 15We must be quick because our species, homo sapiens, having at- tained a certain level of intelligence, is now, in the words of… |
Sequence 9I would like to take a moment to acknowledge NAMTA, and its officers past and present. NAMT A has, it seems to me, offered to… |
Sequence 9the parish would have twelve Masses every weekend and they'd all be full." Why does this journey with the child… |
Sequence 1THE 2005 NAMTA MONTESSORI SCHOOL SALARY SURVEY Interpretation and analysis by David Kahn, John McNamara, and Kristin Sasaki… |
Sequence 14Surprisingly, in some cases median administrator salaries are actually lower than the median salaries of teachers with… |
Sequence 15Aura: The learning that I received from this project is that everyone needs a guide for the different labors that there are… |
Sequence 2COMMUNITY, FREEDOM, AND DISCIPLINE IN A CARING CLASSROOM by John McNamara John McNamara characterizes adolescents through… |
Sequence 9they would guide the younger adolescents. All the objections I heard about having the fifteen- to eighteen-year-olds, had to… |
Sequence 22Let us begin with the microcosm, the baby who listens, even in utero, to the sounds about him or her. She absorbs these sounds… |
Sequence 15belong to the human nation, to humanity, if you keep hearing how horrible and disgusting human beings are? We want the… |