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Sequence 31GL. How best do you see us helping children, especially the adolescents who are moving towards taking their place in the… |
Sequence 35which is trying to become a self-sustaining community in relationship with the plants, the animals, the landscape, the humans… |
Sequence 36difficulties. Now there is a tendency to do away with tensions by eliminating difference rather than harmonizing difference… |
Sequence 97it. Here are the symbols for the ~ansitive and the intransitive, the infinitive, and the verb to be for auxiliary use. Of… |
Sequence 100at you!te show- • fs you're showing the child with this work is not only the ability to parse-to recognize the parts… |
Sequence 124The other type is contagious magic, which says that things once in contact are always in contact. Now, that is at the root of… |
Sequence 176peer modeling and peer support to the new people. Another way to elicit parental cooperation is to get a first child started… |
Sequence 147rule must be introduced at a time when it is essential; it must be explained, it must be enforced consistently, and it will… |
Sequence 104The children spent most of !heir time in teacher-directed large- group activities, and ... most of their language behavior was… |
Sequence 66If Luria was correct about inner speech being the mechanism that "feeds" the development of the frontal… |
Sequence 40that distinguishes bluntly between dumb and smart. It's who we are. It's a quarter inch below the surface all the… |
Sequence 130and needs, then you have to create the environment. Even if it's not necessary to get a job at IBM, that's okay; if… |
Sequence 163with 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 95The characteristics we came up with were described from a student's point of view. For example, the first one is: A… |
Sequence 132Here is how another skater describes the utter absorption when one feels that a performance is going well: It was just one of… |
Sequence 134Rock climbers are particularly eloquent on this score: "It's a pleasant feeling of total involvement. You become… |
Sequence 11Wall, and he finally got to what now is Beijing and took over. When the pager went off, the teacher wrote down that this was… |
Sequence 14But before we do that, let me talk a little bit about what these activities are like. After I did these original interviews,… |
Sequence 19little defensive self, but you are part of something bigger, larger. If you sing in a choir or play with a group, a symphony… |
Sequence 24with friends, social situations, or reading for pleasure. Worry and anxiety happen a lot in school; they happen a lot on the… |
Sequence 38A: That's really difficult because you find, for instance, there have been very good studies that show that if you get a… |
Sequence 39A: It's true that it's very difficult to be in flow all the time. Nobody that I know can be in flow all the time.… |
Sequence 45Many people can be in extremely stimulating situations-in a ski re- sort, with an tndoor swimming pool, and cilll kinds of… |
Sequence 50And I said, "Well, don't worry. Just go out and stop people in the street and within half an hour you will find… |
Sequence 55forms of life, makes us able to do a lot of different things. It makes us able, for instance, to think of ourselves as a… |
Sequence 61every day and some once a week; some say, "I had one experience like that 20 years ago and that's it."… |
Sequence 63clergymen from England who started visiting the Alps and wrote up how beautiful and majestic these things were, and they… |
Sequence 81QUESTIONS ANO ANSWERS Q: As Montessorians, how can we can get our work selected by the culture? A: Obviously, if I had a… |
Sequence 83A: Gatekeepers usually develop historically in very funny ways. You don't know exactly who will be entitled to be a… |
Sequence 90interesting is a list distilled from the study of these hundred people. Of course, the first one is familiar; we talked about… |
Sequence 93Every one of the people we interviewed has the same rhythm. It may be a daily rhythm, that is, they work alone from 7 in the… |
Sequence 94But in their private life, it is amazing how bourgeois these people are; they are not taking chances and being different just… |
Sequence 99the kind of hardship, the feeling that you conquered it, you survived it. It's really sad that you can't do that. Q… |
Sequence 118feelings. Coles tells the story of an eight-year-old girl who refused to participate in a spelling bee, despite her teacher… |
Sequence 12BEYOND BRIBES AND THREATS: How NoT TO GET CONTROL OF THE CLASSROOM by Alfie Kohn In an effort to clarify the basic… |
Sequence 19here's what I'm going to do to you," or I say, "Do this and you'll get that," I am… |
Sequence 23was giving them to do and with my mistaken assumptions about learning and what a good teacher was. It took me a long time to… |
Sequence 37"Do this and you'll get that." Ultimately, that feels punitive. Analo- gously, I don't have… |
Sequence 39than limiting the number available, but not as good as moving away from the reward and punishment approach altogether. There… |
Sequence 40But the fact that young children are so hungry for our approval-are they not?-puts an enormous burden on our shoulders not to… |
Sequence 46And isn't more motivation what we want? If this were true, it would make perfect sense to follow the Pizza Hut executives… |
Sequence 55approve of what you've done. You've met my standards." What you're doing is merely helping her experi… |
Sequence 62But in this second-grade class, the kids were into this. One kid came up, when it was her turn to speak, and talked about… |
Sequence 63develop self-discipline, what they mean is to get the child to introject, to use the psychoanalytic language, or swallow whole… |
Sequence 133which caused Suzuki to place heavy emphasis on environment over intelligence, and that's why, to be a Suzuki student, he… |
Sequence 137that-and I emphasize the i-n-g, do-ing that-not can do that-it's always doing that. The brain is in a constant search for… |
Sequence 140'I don't want to do that anymore. I don't want to pay attention to that anymore.' That's what this is… |
Sequence 213evolution is the environment. That is, there are common persistent features in the environment which will decide whether the… |
Sequence 219Iii e both integrated erentlat . , children are both 0 " de- • the om- reci- ien~ aln1 we all use. If you… |
Sequence 220spend the next hour talking about complexity in the development of the human being and complexity at the psychological level.… |
Sequence 226economy, is one that privileges differentiation. But it's very bad at integration. Many other cultures, including the… |
Sequence 227Q: Since we've been at a conference that has discussed ultimacy, that is, the destiny of the universe and the destiny of… |
Sequence 230For instance, let me just give one little piece of data from this study. One is that we asked these children, whenever the… |
Sequence 231, o man peor>.le, suggests the more complicatecJ, se simplicity actually plex t~an a complf. plicatecf Idea or a et… |
Sequence 232particular case, the teacher was talking about the invasion of China by Genghis Khan in 1213 and how Genghis Khan moved down… |
Sequence 259own culture. We're better people than that"-not to say, "Oh, don't do that. We've got to go… |
Sequence 266var, and you mix the two and combine the best of human and natural possibilities. I'll give you an example of what I… |
Sequence 271I said, "That's just a law. It's a canon. You can't escape it. It's always going to be true.… |
Sequence 103"Beauty is attractive to children just as it is to adults." "Beauty gives the materials a sense of… |
Sequence 244It is important to help the children see how the span of our human story relates to an ordinary lifetime. Here is a very short… |
Sequence 47Listening to poetry is art unto itself. Like listening to jazz or opera, it involves both a disciplined listening and a deep… |
Sequence 54What do we mean when we speak of genius? What do we mean when we use terms as abstract as "creative spirit"… |
Sequence 67Neha is exploring and discovering here, I think. She is exploring what a poem is and isn't, and discovering what she can… |
Sequence 131The child by nature loves the environment. By helping the child forge an emotional bond with nature, we help guarantee… |
Sequence 205and naturalist (understanding of the natural world). The last one may seem new to you. There used to be seven intelligences (… |
Sequence 207--------------------------------~-- But memorize-and-repeat leads to a narrow kind of learning. This approach all too often… |
Sequence 22interest and people's tendencies towards politics to bring about a more unified approach to education? A: Well, I think… |
Sequence 24Q:Then, as teachers, how do we counteract that, if that's the kind of home they're growing up in? A: Well, I think… |
Sequence 25percent of people, both here and in Japan and Germany, where they have also done research, say "No, I don't know… |
Sequence 26I think Flow is so useful in education because most children don't want to go to school. They want to learn on their own… |
Sequence 27And the obstacles, well, those are also legion. You can think of one particular thing that educators have control over, for… |
Sequence 151up with, expanding faster and faster for all eternity, unlimited by the speed of light or by lack of space. In this… |
Sequence 204supervised (cited in Radke-Yarrow, Zahn-Waxler, & Chapman 499- 500), and there is other evidence that the popularity… |
Sequence 56"Our baby will be born in May," Jessica figures. "What a beautiful month!" And they begin… |
Sequence 21Most sensitive phase 0 4.0 C: .Q 3.5 ·;:: - en Q) en Q. ffl C ~ 0 .... Q) .c E ::::, z 3.0 2.5 2.0 1.5… |
Sequence 22Different parts of the brain overproduce and prune their synapses at slightly different phases of development. Figure 3 shows… |
Sequence 26brain development. One way that we as a society could make a huge impact on children's abilities is to prevent premature… |
Sequence 27carbon monoxide. All of those things actually lead to about a half pound reduction in birth weight. Brain size is proportional… |
Sequence 33side of the brain as on the right side of the brain. And interestingly, this difference appears even prenatally, as early as… |
Sequence 35know my four-year-old still hasn't quite figured out the difference between a week and a month-it's all kind of the… |
Sequence 36overall melody and intonation. It's just like perceiving music. Chil- dren really are quite good at perceiving music.… |
Sequence 37a child's language experience. What we think happens is that in a baby's brain we have this initial bias; we have… |
Sequence 40exposed to verbal language for the first time-she'd never been ex- posed to sign language, of course, because nobody knew… |
Sequence 42seem to shut down at puberty, which is quite useful, since most of our professional development happens we! l after puberty.… |
Sequence 47have seen it in my own children. My third child is actually probably the slowest with language of any of them, but he's… |
Sequence 48assuming they're in a normal language environment. It really does show how good their little brains are at learning the… |
Sequence 50Figure 5 shows the general sequence of myelination of different parts of the brain. The survival reflexes are primarily… |
Sequence 51they cannot hear whispers; they cannot hear quiet sounds. That doesn't mean you need to shout at your baby, but it does… |
Sequence 55Contrary to what Piaget thought, imitation, we now know, begins at birth. Some studies show that even newborn babies can… |
Sequence 57and understand that they have minds and have needs and wishes to communicate. They're just sort of blind to other people… |
Sequence 58hears and the language he or she is able to produce is a product of genes. These studies absolutely need to be repeated with… |
Sequence 61ment can do. I really think we need much more support for early education. There are some great parents out there who can… |
Sequence 113something that's a sign that's inevitably linked to a particular occa- sion, like traffic lights at intersections,… |
Sequence 122and language. So you might think there's got to be a connection between the two. But what precisely is the connection?… |
Sequence 123all the time, and ourselves a lot of the time, are preoccupied with incoming messages. We have to make sense of our… |
Sequence 213where they force them to study several hours each day under various professors who are not interested in young people but only… |
Sequence 239Joosten: The seventh leg is someone who really wants to do it. But it's not enough to want to. That is where we have to… |
Sequence 274awoke he found himself in the house of a farmer. The house was cool, for the mud reflected the sun. Then the hunter came out… |
Sequence 356all of you as teachers should remember one thing: Your allegiance is not to make people feel good but it is to the truth.… |
Sequence 363balance is the profile of the agrarian: The agrarian alone understands that proper balance. We go back to the image of… |