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Sequence 5thinking enabling young people to go beyond the here and now. Because of formal operational thinking the adolescent is able:… |
Sequence 2As psychologists became involved in early childhood education in the 1960s, they developed early childhood curriculum models… |
Sequence 5research on teaching and childrearing has pointed to the superiority of an "authoritative" or "… |
Sequence 3But let us not diminish the prepared environment. The elemen- tary child has a kinship to the biological world which we bring… |
Sequence 5instructional activities that will help children develop the learning-to- learn skills and behaviors associated with school… |
Sequence 6questions and the answel's in the scl'iµtul'e. We can re:;pond that "One time Jesus said 'I am… |
Sequence 5the result of an accumulation of information, but of a continued trans- action with the mystery and wonder of a living world.… |
Sequence 6Work as the cosmic expression is ever a necessity of life and a joy; its shirking means extinction, the doom of original… |
Sequence 18was from 8:30 A.M. to 1:30 P.M. There were 25 children in a class with a teacher, an aide, and two parent-aides who alternated… |
Sequence 3Tamminen, A. W. & Weatherman, R. F. (1967). An evaluatum of a presclwol training program for culturally deprived child… |
Sequence 7Time duration of interactions was significantly different between the two schools. Montessori children interacted longer times… |
Sequence 5Table 2 Summary of Findings: Do Low Socioeconomic Children Benefit from Less Than Three Years of Preschool? YES NON-… |
Sequence 3forward to a big future at Syracuse University. ot to mention along the way I've found a great boyfriend and earned… |
Sequence 5helping students to be total human beings is a more important aim of education. Too many specialists can have only minimal… |
Sequence 7are to be expected and even desired for they contain information essential for further learning. For students to discover and… |
Sequence 8who must get well - grow in health. The farmer does many things for his plants or animals, but in the final analysis it is… |
Sequence 13Lupus is an exhausting disease, but Flannery O'Connor was none- theless to make herself into one of the great writers of… |
Sequence 10Elements of the Definition of Class Discussion I. An interchange between students, not primarily between stu- dents and… |
Sequence 7verbal; memory of mere opinions adopted on the naked authority assumed by indoctrinating teachers. The conception of the… |
Sequence 2Method of Instrumentation The sample consisted of 96 Montessori students and 48 school stu- dents, their parents and teachers… |
Sequence 2this sense to accomplish his ends in a natural way, instead of having to keep intervening to add new things. In the 17th… |
Sequence 10Useful Sources of Professional and Children's Books American Library Association 60 East Huron Street Chicago, Illinois… |
Sequence 3ness or sneakiness;' "love" and "bravery" are among the many ideas that appear on… |
Sequence 10complex civilizations that the Mexican philosopher and educator Jose Vasconcelos dubbed them "the cosmic race.&… |
Sequence 6...... The Montessori Birth Center served as a referral service, matching Assistants to Infancy with families desiring their… |
Sequence 3we must now ready all children for school success. Some of these conditions include the fact that: • 1 in 5 American children… |
Sequence 2outside the school, directives from supervisors, and advice from others in similar roles. They accepted the status qua and… |
Sequence 131. Much greater range of students' instructional materials (books, tapes, films, programmed in- struction, simulations… |
Sequence 2the common experience for fashioning questions in the right way to reveal what they know, rather than just revealing… |
Sequence 12casks in terms of the adaptive actitudes and skills chat he believes every person should master, including industry, identity… |
Sequence 16must hold students to real academic standards to be ready for college and life. College faculty chink high school teachers… |
Sequence 9Each observation period required approximately two hours; at the comple- tion of each session the observer tallied the checks… |
Sequence 18The study supports the findings of Bruner, DeCharms, and others that self- motivation is part of a complex process In… |
Sequence 19The best response to the objections is to insist on telling the truth. Administrators must have the courage to face the public… |
Sequence 23Hopkins, W.G. and Brown, M.C. 0984). Development of Nerve Cells and their Connections. Cambridge: Cambridge Univer- sity… |
Sequence 3I suggested that the beginning of this trail might be found in what Piaget calls the symbolic or semiotic function, which… |
Sequence 9written language posses'sing su6- stantial linguistic knowledge imglicit in their spoken lan- guage. The major task… |
Sequence 18episodes. Specifically, there were the tales of Andersen, some of the short stories of Capuana, episodes of the life of Jesus… |
Sequence 21Loeffler, Margaret H. (1980). An Investigation of the Relationship of Protowriting (Invented Spelling) and Cognitive… |
Sequence 8disadvantaged infants and toddlers. This opportunity poses the most promising chance we have had since 1965 for our society to… |
Sequence 16Chfoa's society! Does this foretell a move to a state-ruled animal colony? And there is a further point to be made.… |
Sequence 2concrete, real, and relevant to the lives of young children; (5) provid- ing experiences for children that are outside of the… |
Sequence 17You, the teacher, with your knowledge and attitudes about guiding the process of normalization, are the most important part of… |
Sequence 169You, the teacher, with your knowledge and attitudes about guiding the process of normalization, are the most important part of… |
Sequence 184concrete, real, and relevant to the lives of young children; (5) provid- ing experiences for children that are outside of the… |
Sequence 9exception was in one of the Montessori classrooms, where a student, described by her teacher to have a mother addicted to… |
Sequence 12ences in them, listen to each other better, and be both more tolerant and more compassionate. Teachers adopting these… |
Sequence 2residence for the principals (Mr. and Mrs. Claremont), garden ameni- ties including a large field or paddock, very suitable… |
Sequence 5relapsed to the more humble position of a demonstrator or assistant to the notable per- son we should have been! But… |
Sequence 9dren who learn better with hands and movement rather than visually or auditorially. Young children experience the world with… |
Sequence 9with her husband. She was also a vet. The students who worked with her went early in the morning to help her with the hard,… |
Sequence 11Howes, C. (1989). Infant child care. Young Children, 44, 24-28. Meyerhoff, M. K. (1992). Infant-toddler day care versus… |
Sequence 1MONTESSORI: A CARING PEDAGOGY by Elizabeth Hall In this Montessori manifesto of caring, Ms. Hall puts forward the impor-… |
Sequence 9was one of the most wonderful experiences of my Ufe. I really felt as though I was living with nature, without worrying about… |
Sequence 8attention most naturally? How can I capitalize on the natural interests of the student to draw her or him ever more deeply… |
Sequence 9students the opportunity to apply ideas to their per- sonal lives first. Thus, a Socratic Practice group may be studying… |
Sequence 5Figure 1. Practical Considerations (from "Study and Work Plans,• pp. 119-121) Museum of Machines Shop of Produce and… |
Sequence 6school operation as a whole, maintained by a young family. Thus the Erdkinder is teeming with so many opportunities for work… |
Sequence 2THE TELLING OF THE STORY by Audrey Sillick Evoking storytelling as a human tendency, Audrey Sillick suggests that the story… |
Sequence 32University of Vermont, where they held 750 high school Latin stu- dents spellbound in a gym during a presentation at Vermont… |
Sequence 5solutions. Quality of instruction declines accordingly, and with it goes the quality of learning opportunities for students.… |
Sequence 11for the needs of reading teachers, mathematics teachers are trying to reform mathematics instruction independently of science… |
Sequence 17ambitious objectives, it is still not about these things on the working with side. We have to look at the extent to which we… |
Sequence 23• Spend lots of time with your young children. Engage in enjoyable and meaningful activities, such as games, singing, reading… |
Sequence 2to leave the setting of their school behind for an experience on a farm. Set on a mountain top and a tract of forest land, the… |
Sequence 11• Children as young as ten or eleven being involved in rape • Ten-or eleven-year-olds taking heroin and other drugs. Another… |
Sequence 17us listen to the words of Maria Montessori, for she is reminding us that if we can do what we have just been saying, We find… |
Sequence 15Open up to nature And enter Yet another world THE FUTURE CHALLENGE: FORMING A NEW CONSCIOUSNESS There needs to be a &… |
Sequence 6A. Practical Considerations Museum of Machines Shop of Produce and/or Crafts Hotel for Parents Dorm for Resident Young… |
Sequence 9initially shown spontaneous interest, quickly lose that interest. They now realize that rewards reduce a child's desire… |
Sequence 13when first announced. Even after accepting the theory, the scientific community of chemists still had to "beat nature… |
Sequence 14when first announced. Even after accepting the theory, the scientific community of chemists still had to "beat nature… |
Sequence 18initially shown spontaneous interest, quickly lose that interest. They now realize that rewards reduce a child's desire… |
Sequence 9Because, even with all the glory and the grandeur of those furnish- ings, the world would have been an unfilled promise, this… |
Sequence 22overall melody and intonation. It's just like perceiving music. Chil- dren really are quite good at perceiving music.… |
Sequence 9· "My first day of Middle School ... " • "Elementary school was the ... " · "My… |
Sequence 3National Erdkinder Consortium, a clearing house for Erdkinder devel- opment founded by Gang. Three previously unpublished… |
Sequence 7cultural history when "bigger" was "better." The tradeoff was that bigness meant… |
Sequence 4The crucial point of the whole question is the manner in which he considers the child, and this cannot depend on external… |
Sequence 1During the ride back from the hunger center, I reflected upon my encounter with poverty. When I arrived home my mother stood… |
Sequence 5The teacher takes responsibility for thirty-one percent in eighth the child's reaching each level of grade. 1 Depth is… |
Sequence 8The how it is to be done remains constant: verbalization, materials for development, point of arrival, the three-period lesson… |
Sequence 1212. We must provide concrete materials and manipulative tasks. Many students cannot master certain ideas without them. We… |
Sequence 8Everything about the children ment clearly urges middle schools to has a history, and if the stu- transform the fundamental… |
Sequence 10The ideal is that as young people are learning about the cultural diversity of their city, they will begin to define their own… |
Sequence 4Fuu-TJME STAFF David Kahn: program director, administrator, admissjons direc- tor, recruiter, publications director,… |
Sequence 8munities like Montes- sori communities are sometimes criticized for not providing enough peer choices for stu- dents to… |
Sequence 1Search for Meaning and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's Elements of Enjoy- ment, which describes the conditions of optimal… |
Sequence 8Teachers like McMillin, who combine passion for their work with genuine concern for their stu- dents, possess the rare power… |
Sequence 10A CHALLENGE TO THE TEACHER I have spent the majority of my life as a student or teacher in some ea paci ty. Yet I have… |
Sequence 2Erikson, E. H. Young Man Luther. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1958. Gardner, H. Creating Minds. New York: Basic… |
Sequence 5parents-is something we call the Nido, or the situation for infants. I don't think anyone in this room would disagree… |
Sequence 22Young children, when they brush their hair, will basically just take a hairbrush and scoop it forward up over the back of the… |
Sequence 11This work became a book, In the First Country of Places: Nature, Poetry and Childhood Memory. What I found was that it was… |
Sequence 3I began with origins. I enjoyed the etymology of the word education (from Latin educare, "to draw out"). I… |
Sequence 25detailed classroom signals, percentage variables were calculated for each student and for the Montessori and traditional… |
Sequence 26Figure 4. Students' Perceptions ofTheir Teachers and Schools • Montessori o 1hditional 2.7 Teacher Support..… |
Sequence 33Why are these results important for the Montessori middle school students? Many skeptics will look at these results and say… |
Sequence 4experience (flow) theory, but I know they had studied the thought of Maria Montessori. What I saw at each of the schools were… |
Sequence 4to this further exploration are not set by the number of different fields of learning or knowledge, but by the psychology of… |