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Sequence 4Children are observed spontaneously praying to the Good Shepherd. A child suffering from leukemia told me, "He helps… |
Sequence 5Ii is difficult to leach children about God by only using words. God is abslracL, but Christ is concrete. And what is around… |
Sequence 6questions and the answel's in the scl'iµtul'e. We can re:;pond that "One time Jesus said 'I am… |
Sequence 8"Found Sheep," which is not scolded by the Good Shepherd but car- ried happily on his shoulders. With great… |
Sequence 9behavior by males is absolutely unknown in the animal kingdom except in chimps and humans. So if one is interested in the… |
Sequence 2Dr. Montessori lectured from 9 A.M. until 12 noon and 3 P.M. to 6 P.M. every day. Saturdays_ were ow· practical days, our… |
Sequence 3and not a panicipant in the process. Plans for schools and buildings, ways to organize classrooms and groups within… |
Sequence 28children's transition from orality to literacy as unqualified progress, we were to view it as a trade-off made for… |
Sequence 38ground. New York: Oxford University Press. Opie, I., & Opie, P. (1985). The singing game. New York: Oxford University… |
Sequence 1A six-year-old's drawing of the Good Shepherd and sheep (lstituto Assunzione, Rome). 60 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. /9, No… |
Sequence 6highlighting the contrast between the solemn, aloof teacher who sits as one enthroned on high before an audience that hears… |
Sequence 8to the patience of the people we encountered. In fact, the students expressed some sadness when we returned to the city and to… |
Sequence 7schools. We've visited a few and they seemed good enough. Good enough, in fact, that we even put in applications… |
Sequence 13with what had become a luscious, teeming mountain of fertilizer and abundance. He looked up from a vast shovel-full, and,… |
Sequence 28If a child, for instance, feels overwhelmed by the challenges present, if he's anxious, he or she is not going to… |
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 23concrete example in a school environment that exemplifies a doing to approach or a working with approach. If it's one… |
Sequence 15needs of each are different, it causes conflict and very often the needs of the adults will take precedence over the needs of… |
Sequence 19most ridiculed people in Greek literature because they smell, they're cranky, they have coarse language. But all… |
Sequence 20own culture. We're better people than that"-not to say, "Oh, don't do that. We've got to go… |
Sequence 13Oeconomicus-that one person can take a piece of ground and do something with it and another person simply can't. Believe… |
Sequence 2It is no doubt that Maria Montessori saw a divine presence in young children which made them" all-powerful,"… |
Sequence 4center of our efforts to insure, in Gianna Gobbi's words, "healthy psychic life and [to pave] the way for human… |
Sequence 3in an experience of religious education known as the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd. The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd… |
Sequence 7At the beginning we reacted with some fatigue, because it was hard to see that themes that had been studied with great care,… |
Sequence 8But the point which always strikes the child-no matter what the child's environment or culture-is that the Good… |
Sequence 1Two TRIBUTES To SoFIA CAVALLETTI The following tributes were presented to Sofia c.avalletti at the NAMT A conference entitled… |
Sequence 2ogy and Semitic culture and history. Over the years, I slowly became aware that, in addition to Italian and Hebrew, Sofia… |
Sequence 3II Sofia dear: Thank you. Why? It is difficult to be essential when you would like to thank a wonderful friend for so many… |
Sequence 3ing for a relationship with the Creator and the creation, and we will not be satisfied unless this fundamental discovery can… |
Sequence 4order to make it possible for me to do my journey with the support of an unconditional love." Montessori wrote,… |
Sequence 2THE HISTORY OF THE CATECHESIS OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD by Tina Lillig Ms. Lillig gives a concise histonJ of the Catechesis of… |
Sequence 3If we delay catechesis until the customary age of six, the child has moved into a new ethical stage in life when God is more… |
Sequence 4child. One is her demonstration, through numerous examples, of the catechetical potential of children as young as three.… |
Sequence 6joy of the children at their" awkward efforts" was the impetus for the pair to do something more organized… |
Sequence 7-------------------------------- -- Many catechists have observed that the atrium becomes even more important to older… |
Sequence 8atrium, children sometimes make a first discovery that they have an inner life. THE Gooo SHEPHERD The Catechesis of the Good… |
Sequence 9calling them out, the shepherd going ahead of them, the sheep follow- ing. This opens the way for them to work with the… |
Sequence 10AN INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT Evidence of the suitability of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd for children of diverse cultures… |
Sequence 2THE TOTONACA PEOPLE AND THE CATECHESIS OF THE GooD SHEPHERD by Maria Christlieb Robles Illustrating the spread of the… |
Sequence 3religious sense. They are a way to worship and to express adoration, love, and a total gift of themselves, in a cosmic… |
Sequence 4an oral language and therefore oral tradition is very important. Their principal arts and crafts are embroidery and working… |
Sequence 5In March of that same year, they came back and we looked at history as a history of the gifts from God. I presented the… |
Sequence 9will help us to go deeper into this aspect of our work and to remain faithful to it." A big hope is ahead of us:… |
Sequence 1THE RELATION BETWEEN THE CHILD'S WORK AND COSMIC WORK by Gianna Gobbi Gianna Gobbi' s essay speaks to the &… |
Sequence 2ARE WE SUCCEEDING IN NURTURING THE SPIRIT? by Aline D. Wolf Aline Wolfs challenge to Montessorians to look seriously at our… |
Sequence 1OBITUARY MARIA CHRISTLIEB ROBLES Both the Montessori community and the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd lost a friend,… |
Sequence 18and language. So you might think there's got to be a connection between the two. But what precisely is the connection?… |
Sequence 21ronment! It was grand! I remember that he came to graduation, and once again he wept. Let us proceed to study the work and… |
Sequence 12to follow an indigenous Aztec pattern of development. That's a very cruel thing to say, but it's absolutely true.… |
Sequence 21and was put in jail and they confiscated his tractor-a big scandal in the southern San Joaquin Valley. About that same time in… |
Sequence 28three hundred and you've got two hundred. What did you do wrong?" Or when I had these plum trees, thegreattrag… |
Sequence 16a toothpick in it. And of course my adult instinct was to say, "Don't squeeze the water out." But I… |
Sequence 2LITURGY IN THE CosMic PLAN OF Goo by Sofia Cavalletti Sofia Cavalletti's conviction that the greatest realities are… |
Sequence 2Goo's CosMic PLAN AND THE WORK OF THE CHILD by Carol Cannon Dittberner Integrating the broad vision of cosmic education… |
Sequence 15REFERENCES Cavalletti, Sofia. II potenziale religioso tra i 6 e i 12 anni. Trans. Rebekah Rojcewicz. Rome: Citta Nuova… |
Sequence 2JOURNEYING WITH CHILDREN TowARD Goo by Rebekah Rojcewicz Rebekah Rojcewicz' s short summanJ of the Ca techesis of the… |
Sequence 3Where do such deep responses come from in children? What triggers them? What do they tell us about the religious nature of… |
Sequence 4Two MYSTERIES The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd has been called" the meeting ground of two mysteries: the mystery… |
Sequence 5In 1954, Sofia Cavalletti began a quest to understand the nature of the child's relationship with God, and to discover… |
Sequence 6most striking aspect of this drawing for me are the faces of the shepherd and the sheep around his neck. They have matching… |
Sequence 7THE ATRIUM And so we prepare a space, the atrium, where these great truths can be proclaimed and these mysteries explored. It… |
Sequence 8Jesus invites us to comprehend the depth and intimacy of his relation- ship with us, the providential love and care of the… |
Sequence 2Let me explain, very briefly, how I entered the Montessori world and how this experience changed deeply my personal and profes… |
Sequence 20the third world, which replicates on a global scale what used to be the struggle within society in the nineteenth century. We… |
Sequence 1OBITUARY: GIANNA GOBBI by Camillo Grazzini On January 29, in her eighty-third year, Gianna Gobbi suddenly, unexpectedly,… |
Sequence 2Cavalletti and Gianna Gobbi jointly worked out a program that seemed to correspond to the needs of the various ages,… |
Sequence 3Gobbi presented a synthesis of a part of her personal experiences with the children in a little book called Alcuni principi… |
Sequence 6Gobbi presented a synthesis of a part of her personal experiences with the children in a little book called Alcuni principi… |
Sequence 7Cavalletti and Gianna Gobbi jointly worked out a program that seemed to correspond to the needs of the various ages,… |
Sequence 8OBITUARY: GIANNA GOBBI by Camillo Grazzini On January 29, in her eighty-third year, Gianna Gobbi suddenly, unexpectedly,… |
Sequence 2MODERN MONTESSORI IN SEARCH OF A Sout: A TRIBUTE TO SOFIA CAvALLETTI by David Kahn David Kahn's tribute to Sofia… |
Sequence 6elevated to a new status in a religious context. The signs and symbols, the scripture and liturgy, the presentation of the… |
Sequence 7chapter of her book Living Liturgy, Dr. Cavalletti establishes param- eters connecting creation with Cosmic Education: The… |
Sequence 8In the worship of God, we bring our whole lives with us, even that activity in which we use and enjoy the goods of this world… |
Sequence 11Montessori, Maria. The Absorbent Mind. 1949. Madras, India: Kalakshetra, 1992. Montessori, Maria. The Child in the Church.… |
Sequence 2EXTENSIO ANIMAE AD MAGNA by Elizabeth Wymer and Keith Boehme Elizabeth Wymer and Keith Boehme explain the philosophy of two… |
Sequence 16REFERENCES American Federation of Teachers. "Making Standards Matter, 2001." American Educator 25.4 (2001,… |
Sequence 6Finally, a word about the third and fourth points. Thoreau went to Walden, he said, in order to drive some of the problems… |
Sequence 11have heard of him. He's on expedition right now going up to the Northwest Territories. This is a nine-month expedition.… |
Sequence 17pion of the project and the company forever. So either way, the result is excellent. Once every eighteen months, we sponsor a… |
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 33wisdom. And wisdom involves putting together everything I've said today. It's about the use of your successful… |
Sequence 3they have been grasped" (40-41). We in the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd use the canopy of Gift/Response to live… |
Sequence 4reveal to us, in certain moments, how he makes his own approach to God. (16) We approach the child with reverence and respect… |
Sequence 9the parish would have twelve Masses every weekend and they'd all be full." Why does this journey with the child… |
Sequence 13on Montessori's interpretation of intelligence by Kay Baker, Annette Haines, Kevin Rathunde, and Shannon Helfrich. This… |
Sequence 2SOCIALIZATION THROUGH THE p ARTNERSHIP WITH PRAIRIE CROSSING by Linda Davis Highlighting the primary function of adolescent… |
Sequence 11Montessori emphasizes the importance of these adolescents being protected and prepared, so that they can become strong, so… |
Sequence 20"Cool! That's what a ball bearing is? How does it work? Can we take apart the ottoman? Oh, I get it, why didn… |
Sequence 25For math, and especially for younger children, I recommend the work of Constance Kam ii, a series of books titled Yo1111g… |
Sequence 2morning, and, believe it or not, I have a lot of working people who do stay for the breakfast after drop-off and then go to… |
Sequence 16don't always put directions by them; it depends on the material. Some of them just say "explore";… |
Sequence 26being a child in so many years. And to try to get in touch with myself as a child is ... I can't even express it.&… |
Sequence 97Lower and Upper Elementary Montessori school and in 1950 was reluctantly recognized by the newly independent government as… |
Sequence 132Religious Education Such things, therefore, must appeal to their tender minds as the end of effort patiently sustained,… |
Sequence 133The heart of the Catechesis for the child under six is the parable of the Good Shepherd Qohn I 0). Over 50 years of research… |
Sequence 138Religious Education, continued Pope John Paul II visiting on atrium in Rome, /983 The atrium is in Nostro Signora de Lourdes… |
Sequence 7relations, even though we know and have long known from psychol- ogy that these are very formative. They so profoundly affect… |
Sequence 10the good leader, the good manager will exercise that power in a partnership structure. These are very important distinctions… |