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Sequence 9condescend, we mutter hurried excuses and flee because we do not understand. There are millions of people who have difficulty… |
Sequence 1ONE WORLD, ONE DRUM by Tom Sipes My first teaching assignment was in a Catholic seminary in East Africa, in the town of… |
Sequence 20in things, and impose different relationships upon them, even those which do violence to nature, by contradicting the ends and… |
Sequence 3weeks befol"e I found out what was happening. They finally admitted to me that they were banging on the wall between… |
Sequence 1MURIEL DWYER: ON THE WAY TO THE AIRPORT by David Kahn Although Ms. Dwyer has written a short pamphlet entitled Key to… |
Sequence 4bedside table was a prayer book, and a new book by Luciano Mazzetti (speaking at the Summer Washington Conference) and a note… |
Sequence 33Montessori classroom had one teacher and an aid for 25 children of lower and middle class socioeconomic status. Stodolsky… |
Sequence 5helping students to be total human beings is a more important aim of education. Too many specialists can have only minimal… |
Sequence 1New Montessori Scholarship__; THE ACQUISITION OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE THE NEBULA HYPOTHESIS by Annette Haines ThefoUowi:ng two… |
Sequence 10Eugene "Bull" O'Connor, a notoriously brutish man and a segregation- ist to the core. When efforts to… |
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 6each of us might have something to learn. Often, those who proclaim themselves fit to make ethical pronouncements for the… |
Sequence 12Passive listening to an external authority is replaced by an active search for the best means of expression and communication… |
Sequence 5my students how they found a practice audience: *"My little brother and sister." *"My morn when… |
Sequence 6projects, ranging from elaborate drawings of Bronze Age armor to an animated cartoon, from epic poetry to a detailed… |
Sequence 11abilities, that were entirely absent from the schoolroom in the previous ages. Consequently, attention of educationists was… |
Sequence 2newspapers, and magazines. People began to speak of the "Discovery of the Child," and the discovery of the… |
Sequence 4builds from the concrete to the abstract. Suzuki method teachers paral- lel this approach in their ordering of the pieces… |
Sequence 2"soup" to a "salad bowl" concept in which each ingredient maintains its separate flavor,… |
Sequence 6Fundamental to the hunter-gatherer adaptation is the belief that either we will all live together or we will die together.… |
Sequence 7satisfying relationships and of passing on that ability to their children. But in unstable homes, where parents, often single… |
Sequence 6are able to visualize any given lrnowledge. By 18 you have envisioned the whole universe. Then at 18 you decide what your… |
Sequence 10Kahn: That's very interesting. Who are some of the people you tell stories about besides George Washington? Gunawardena… |
Sequence 1THE OB)ECl1VFS OF THE PAIDEIA PROPOSAL* by Mortimer J. Adler "Piecemeal refonn measures beget piecemeal results, if… |
Sequence 9be based on what was known about curriculum, teaching, learning, and the conditions that would produce improved learner… |
Sequence 11Grumet, M.R (1989). "Dinner at Abigail's: Nurturing collaboration." NEA Today, 7(6), 20-25. Livingston… |
Sequence 2GL. How best do you see us helping children, especially the adolescents who are moving towards taking their place in the… |
Sequence 15And to the European Congress of Peace in Brussels she said: Preventing conflicts is the work of politics; establishing peace… |
Sequence 1ORDER IN CoNSCIOUSNFs.5 by Jim Roberts As a Montessori primary teacher, Jim Roberts had often observed deep joy in his… |
Sequence 9Hildegard Solzbacher, Preschool Teacher Trainer, Montessori Teacher Education Collaborative 2l01 W. Good Hope Rd., Glendale,… |
Sequence 9Hildegard Solzbacher, Preschool Teacher Trainer, Montessori Teacher Education Collaborative 2l01 W. Good Hope Rd., Glendale,… |
Sequence 1Plant Sale (Upper Elementary) by Laurie Ewert-Kroeker A venture into the business of growing and selling annuals and veg•… |
Sequence 12would wish to replicate all aspects of this phenomenon in our schools, it seems important to understand the nature of their… |
Sequence 1THE DEVELOPMENT OF AUTONOMY IN CHILDREN: AN EXAMINATION OF THE MONTESSORI EDUCATIONAL MODEL by Sharon Dubble Kendall, Ph.D… |
Sequence 7So we read The Buuer Battle Book. It was Dr. Seuss' metaphor for the Cold War and the devel.opment of atomic weapons. Our… |
Sequence 10Communities: plant, animal, human Diversity and Stability: preservation, agriculture, forest and wildlife manage- ment, soil… |
Sequence 5There are dozens of words that you can pick out to give to children. Bankrupt means someone whose bench has been broken (rupto… |
Sequence 10coming in on the noun which gives the stress and keeps the rhythm right. Each child speaks the noun when he comes in;… |
Sequence 5test tales in which you must listen and then repeat it exactly, never saying "a" when you should say &… |
Sequence 7around Germany among the people whose dialects still preserved some of the old forms, as some dialects do in many parts of… |
Sequence 9with them and know them. The dominant animals have, of course, changed a great deal. You get the dominance of the bear in the… |
Sequence 10Another one is "those youngest best," which means, historically, that iri a matriarchate, the youngest son… |
Sequence 11have been traced, and seventeen Robin Hoods. This snowballing happens because there are so few names. Even in England-… |
Sequence 2Existing Schools BuffaJo Dallas-Ft. Worth Minneapolis (Bennett Parkj /Daggettj !Sewardf Years In Operation or Projected… |
Sequence 3Proposed Schools Cincinnati Denver Prince George's St. Paul County, MO Years In Operation or Projected Fall, 1994… |
Sequence 13somehow transcends them. Many of the "teen-exploitation" movies, such as Ferris Beu bier's Day Off, or… |
Sequence 2which it is based. We have also seen that a gylanic 2 or partnership society, symbolized by life-sustaining and enhancing… |
Sequence 5as "an impediment" or "a danger" (p. 87). Thus, they can perceive service to others not as… |
Sequence 5to wh:11 was happening in ordinary life: There the children were disorderly, always leaving Lhings lying around, and the… |
Sequence 18chapter is called "Discipline and the Teacher," and in it, Montessori is sympathetic to the struggle of a… |
Sequence 3THE MONTESSORI APPROACH To Music by Elise Braun Barnett Returning recently from a meeting of the College Music Society, I am… |
Sequence 14THE MONTESSORI APPROACH To Music by Elise Braun Barnett Returning recently from a meeting of the College Music Society, I am… |
Sequence 94chapter is called "Discipline and the Teacher," and in it, Montessori is sympathetic to the struggle of a… |
Sequence 2the Montessori educational community, yet he made most of his discov- eries in his own classroom working with a group of… |
Sequence 5BACKGROUND OF TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS Teacher Background The two teachers who were trained in Montessori methods, A and B at… |
Sequence 5using knowledge-in ways and con- texts that build and strengthen them and the community. The best way to learn and practice… |
Sequence 2these "deficient" children, in 1907 she took her new teaching prin- ciples to "normal"… |
Sequence 5and Montessori teaching in the U.S. fell on hard times. Some of the new "Montessori" schools in the U.S.… |
Sequence 9results in "teaching for intelligence." That puts the cart before the horse. If you want to put the cart and… |
Sequence 15If you're a Bell Curve thinker, you think that a quarter of the people don't even have intel- lect and most of… |
Sequence 17and 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 5234-235). In a Montessori elementary class, the children are allowed to form groups; most of their work is done in groups.… |
Sequence 1RESPONSE TO .11p ARENTING FOR INDEPENDENCE" by Anne McNamara Anne McNamara, who submitted the original William… |
Sequence 13adult who can work for the good of humanity and can participate in humanity's (cosmic) mission on this Earth. This is… |
Sequence 26MARIA MONTESSORI ANO PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION During the two decades between the first publication of The Montessori Method 18 (… |
Sequence 4At the Primary level, the activities of practical life, with artistic use of "points of interest," provide… |
Sequence 31the theatrics of Laurence Davies and Bill Cook, Molly brings an old piece of cloth to her telling and she dashes back and… |
Sequence 32University of Vermont, where they held 750 high school Latin stu- dents spellbound in a gym during a presentation at Vermont… |
Sequence 33But why push children to tell stories? Why is it important to take that additional step? As we have seen, preparing a story… |
Sequence 18In any case, when the conditions of flow are present, people tend to report an optimal state of inner harmony that they desire… |
Sequence 15skills, then you would be bored. The flow experience seems to occur in that diagonal; in fact, it does occur in the diagonal… |
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 1THE PREPARED ENVIRONMENT by Eduardo J. Cuevas In this summary of his workshop session, Eduardo Cuevas explores what really… |
Sequence 2presently dealing with. The notion expressed in this statement seems to me to be of the greatest importance since the adult in… |
Sequence 25you saturate a child in an environment of so-called logical conse- quences, that child, if he grows up and thinks he can get… |
Sequence 30There is one way to take a bad thing and make it much worse. You're going to have to bring me back sometime for me to… |
Sequence 32But the fact that young children are so hungry for our approval-are they not?-puts an enormous burden on our shoulders not to… |
Sequence 36a different direction, to teach you everything about motivation that I know on one overhead (see Figure 3). It took me a while… |
Sequence 48We do it with infant rooms. "Good clapping!" Please. Fortu- nately, at the infant level they're too… |
Sequence 49set foot in the classroom. And you can tell partly that it's fake because of tones of voice. Three-year-olds can smell a… |
Sequence 6little children, these little four-year-olds and five-year-olds, seven-, eight-, nine-year-olds. They sound like adults when… |
Sequence 7which caused Suzuki to place heavy emphasis on environment over intelligence, and that's why, to be a Suzuki student, he… |
Sequence 8requires it; it requires that we dialogue. If you dialogue, you've got to be culturally salient. I think you will hear in… |
Sequence 14'I don't want to do that anymore. I don't want to pay attention to that anymore.' That's what this is… |
Sequence 4tion of agrarianism, I will try to suggest to you, is tied to Western culture. In other words, Western culture would not have… |
Sequence 8corporate agriculture-farm owners don't want to live where they farm because it's boring, it's dirty; they… |
Sequence 21quite accurate analysis. I think we all have to realize that farms like mine are being destroyed in California. All of my… |
Sequence 2And I said, "What do you mean?" And he said, "Well, you've got this Wal-Mart." Well… |
Sequence 8I thought, "Oh, this is stupid." Then they said, "What are you going to do with these coyotes?… |
Sequence 13Oeconomicus-that one person can take a piece of ground and do something with it and another person simply can't. Believe… |
Sequence 27So you've created a hierarchy. You're judgmental. You have certain values that you think are better. Well, the same… |
Sequence 320 years, have lacked any governing standard, any consensus of design, and any documentation. To help build the needed… |
Sequence 9during the year. At the North Country School, there occurs a Harvest Day during the fall, in which the entire school… |
Sequence 7discoveries of Maria Montessori, which are set forth in this book, special assistants were trained to guide the mothers in the… |
Sequence 9Montessori. As a first step, every document kept at the AMI has been photocopied. This task has now been completed and the… |
Sequence 18Pearce,Joseph Chilton. Evolution's End: Claiming the Potential of Our Intelligence. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco,… |
Sequence 15With that vision, however, Maria Montessori joins the ranks of the great educational philosophers of all time and gains the… |
Sequence 24Hart, R., & L. Chawla. The Development of Children's Concern for the Environment. Zeitschrift fur Umelweltpolitik… |
Sequence 13this child showing me?" and you ask the child what he or she likes to do. My nephew attends a Montessori preschool.… |
Sequence 4She characterizes the "old- fashioned type of professor" as having a "high desk upon a plat- form… |