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Sequence 5a permissive role while her mother was more demanding. She was an oldest child and could have felt upstaged by an adoption in… |
Sequence 9just intellectual ones. For example, the social relations of the school are like little prairie fires flaring up and dying… |
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 2watching it grow tall and straight and bring forth beautiful leaves. And then, just as it is ready to flower, someone moves it… |
Sequence 8Mr. C: Well, I can accept that. But I still don't think that money, power and fame are evils, as Socrates says. Mr. B: I… |
Sequence 9Ms. A: Yes, that's why oratory would fail too. Even a speech in a grand style would fail where experience and feelings… |
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 9cannot produce children because first you have to reach maturity. If you attempt to do something that a mature person does,… |
Sequence 5new insights or beliefs rather than the other way around, although learning styles differ for people. The brute sanity… |
Sequence 2she and her students would look better. This has not achieved a meaningful improvement in instruction or achievement. Those… |
Sequence 5TB. It's an awakening experience that children have when they are very young. When you see animals and young humans, they… |
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 12movements at all times, not just at school. We learned to notice small details, and we learned to give great lessons. We… |
Sequence 5The ways in which conflicts are resolved within a classroom are impor- tant, too; invariably conflicts come up. It's… |
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 17within the student as we survey the "universe of literature." There it all is, before her, everything that… |
Sequence 95within the student as we survey the "universe of literature." There it all is, before her, everything that… |
Sequence 7was a cognitive psychologist he was a biologist, so maybe there's something about watching growing things that makes you… |
Sequence 11another person until they got to be seven years old. That's called decentering. You start out egocentric so that you… |
Sequence 4These graces have every opportunity to be exercised and imple- mented because the children are free to act, free to choose,… |
Sequence 12duplicating famous experiments of history and others being the inventions of the students themselves. They seem to be going… |
Sequence 9One other characteristic that's very important is that when people get really involved in something that turns out to be… |
Sequence 11something, you're probably going to slow down compared to the others. If you are climbing a mountain and you start… |
Sequence 23probably do it quite well, from what I can see, and that's not a problem in your type of schooling. The other thing to… |
Sequence 5Phases of the Creative Process In fact, as you probably know, the creative process is usually seen as made up of four phases… |
Sequence 9and working with are basically the topic for this morning. I'm going to go over them quickly now and then come back to… |
Sequence 37two years old; her lips still move when she reads, but we're OK with that. My two-year-old is doing what two-year-olds do… |
Sequence 47approve of what you've done. You've met my standards." What you're doing is merely helping her experi… |
Sequence 48We do it with infant rooms. "Good clapping!" Please. Fortu- nately, at the infant level they're too… |
Sequence 50BREAKING OUT OF DICHOTOMIES By the way, when you talk to parents, one of the things you have to do is have them break out of… |
Sequence 22For instance, let me just give one little piece of data from this study. One is that we asked these children, whenever the… |
Sequence 29good because they didn't have the interest. So if the parents just provide routine opportunities without knowing what… |
Sequence 3He said, "This is just terrible." I said, "Yeah, democracy can be a terrible thing." He… |
Sequence 10I said, "That's just a law. It's a canon. You can't escape it. It's always going to be true.… |
Sequence 16the spectrum. On the small end-20- and 30- and 40-acre farms-we see a person who inherits a farm and finds out that if raisins… |
Sequence 26that's been traditionally called the family farm, because those people will not be living on that land. They won't… |
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 11climber: Mountain climbers don't climb in order to get to the top of the mountain. The top of the mountain is the goal… |
Sequence 22Q: Do you think that a child absorbed in a video game is in Flow? A: Yes, they can be in Flow, and usually they stay in Flow… |
Sequence 12Another way of thinking about this relationship is to consider the individual self as the small self, related to the Earth or… |
Sequence 11There are other reasons as well with preemies-they're sort of being bombarded by stimuli they're not ready for-but… |
Sequence 13carbon monoxide. All of those things actually lead to about a half pound reduction in birth weight. Brain size is proportional… |
Sequence 38classroom too, to try to keep the background noises down. Certainly there's no need for background music, in my opinion,… |
Sequence 39Phonemes are individual speech sounds. There are forty pho- nemes in the English language. I don't know exactly the… |
Sequence 3The difference between humans and other animals is not a quantitative difference- it's not that we are a little bit… |
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 18I said, "Yeah, democracy can be a terrible thing." He just stopped. He said, "What did you say?… |
Sequence 25He said, "Oh, no." I said, "That's just a law. It's a canon. You can't escape it. It… |
Sequence 3become a mechanic. They become less connected with the land. They use capital from off the farm to subsidize losses on the… |
Sequence 12it's dirty. It is. I think I agree with you absolutely, as long as we don't glorify that savagery. We just recognize… |
Sequence 3This time frame is very short-unless you' re in the middle of it, and then you think it's a lifetime. When you'… |
Sequence 4perspective, every day is a good day. We're the ones that say, "Oh, are you having a bad day today?"… |
Sequence 10Q: When you say that everyone's wearing panties, at what age do you start? You don't wait for the parent to say,… |
Sequence 16a toothpick in it. And of course my adult instinct was to say, "Don't squeeze the water out." But I… |
Sequence 5If the neural pore on the anterior or head end fails to close proper I y, we have a defect known as anencephaly. Literally the… |
Sequence 3twenty-four weeks-because of new medical technology, twenty-four- week fetuses can be viable fetuses. So this timeline is a… |
Sequence 7see that this hormonal swing that they're going to go through in adolescence, and all those kinds of changes, are really… |
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 10And then finally I want to talk about this notion of the pitfall of progressivism because progressivism today is the dominant… |
Sequence 16featured quite prominently in this conference. There's a gentleman whose name is David Sobel who's written a number… |
Sequence 16embarrass anybody. This is a very interesting era in human history because we were born into a time of both magnificent… |