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Sequence 10self-evident and emotionally satisfying, and the child is never left wondering, uwhat is the point of all this?" We… |
Sequence 10self-evident and emotionally satisfying, and the child is never left wondering, uwhat is the point of all this?" We… |
Sequence 1OF ROOTS AND WINGS by David Kahn A philosophical outlook on the parent's role in Montessm-i, educa- tion, this article… |
Sequence 7I strongly urge Montessori directors and directresses to collect com- ments by their students on Montessori education. I began… |
Sequence 1THE BOTANICAL CARDS by Mario M. Montessori This insightful article illustrates the underlying developmental principles which… |
Sequence 15Footnotes 'Maria Montessori (1948) To Educate the Human Potential 5th Edition 1973, Kalakshetra Publica- tions Press,… |
Sequence 8isn't the same thing as declaring that no reason for patterns of branch- ing exists. Pattern cladists don't doubt… |
Sequence 3scale, another time computing the relative distances between the plan- ets to a scale that would fit in the classroom. The… |
Sequence 1INTRODUCING LUCIANO MAZZETTI Luciano Mazzetti Dr. uuciano Mazzetti is the president of the International Montes- sori Center… |
Sequence 9The Montessori idea is unfinished by design. Some complain that the curriculum presented in Montessori training is incomplete… |
Sequence 1RESPONSE TO GENEROUS UNDERSTANDING: KNOWING OURSELVES AND EACH OTHER by Charles Torranova I want to thank David Kahn for… |
Sequence 2Today, with mothers spending less time at home, with families falling apart and being reshaped in new combinations, and with… |
Sequence 25who experienced deprivation when very young and rebounded hand- somely in adolescence. According to Kagan, the commotion… |
Sequence 3goals seriously, it turns out that we need a lot more critical and creative thinking as a part of the process of education.… |
Sequence 6have a problem co explain. We know that babies are geniuses universally. We find ic in Piagec, but unfonunacely he didn't… |
Sequence 5TB. It's an awakening experience that children have when they are very young. When you see animals and young humans, they… |
Sequence 5Although externally her life was affected by political forces, within she remained detached as this statement indicates: Not… |
Sequence 11&location must be considered as most imponant; for as diseases in the world of bodies are extremely contagious, so, in… |
Sequence 14this principle in this way will surely make a difference in our world. In The Promulgation of Universal Peace, 'Abdu… |
Sequence 8The adolescents may choose to design the garden for community ser- vice: to beautify the city; to provide flowers to nursing… |
Sequence 13English. So, English literature dropped. When you had a German-speaking ruler and a German-speaking court, it affected what… |
Sequence 4story, for example-give the most excellent details about life in a country. When you are teaching, look up the tales. In the… |
Sequence 20Now, sub-cycle number four is the language of birds, and the type tale comes from Normandy. Here, the child hears the birds… |
Sequence 10PROGRAM DESCRIPTION SAMPLER 7bese pragmattc descriptions of adolescent program components which provide an operational view… |
Sequence 14NAMTANEWs The Montessori Academy Is Full A new kind of summer program intended to encourage depth, The Montessori Academy… |
Sequence 2concrete, real, and relevant to the lives of young children; (5) provid- ing experiences for children that are outside of the… |
Sequence 10Teachers have to know strategies that concern their own move- ments. "The teacher should study her own movements, to… |
Sequence 2It is complex-not simply taught, but demanding continuous study and investigation of all aspects of life. It is complex… |
Sequence 14One elementary school head in an affluent Midwestern suburb recently told me that children from "normal"… |
Sequence 140One elementary school head in an affluent Midwestern suburb recently told me that children from "normal"… |
Sequence 166It is complex-not simply taught, but demanding continuous study and investigation of all aspects of life. It is complex… |
Sequence 176Teachers have to know strategies that concern their own move- ments. "The teacher should study her own movements, to… |
Sequence 184concrete, real, and relevant to the lives of young children; (5) provid- ing experiences for children that are outside of the… |
Sequence 5To the Montessori "bleachers" the serving of the luncheon of milk and crackers is the most interesting part… |
Sequence 3misery as it does in prosperity, in oppression as in freedom, in war as in peace, and that he did not really know what life is… |
Sequence 12At birth-before words, language, abstract reasoning, cognitive patterning, and conceptual thinking-were images. The brain… |
Sequence 6you have nature. On the other hand, my view, my metaphysics, tells me that nurture changes nature. Before I go further, let… |
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 4We can readily sympathize with any reader who finds the record of these events hard to believe. It was exactly the same with… |
Sequence 7"potentialities which determine his development"; "there exists within this inert being a global… |
Sequence 21full control of all one's energies, which is the result of the maturation that has been reached. The Four Planes In her… |
Sequence 22ergies that are repressed lead to inferiority complexes, the weakening of personality, lack of responsibility, listlessness,… |
Sequence 32Mon te.:;sori has drawn in the middle of her chart, between the drawing above and that below, between "nature&… |
Sequence 10self-evident and emotionally satisfying, and the child is never left wondering, "What is the point of all this?&… |
Sequence 32A: 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 4• the ways in which decisions are made in the class: individu- ally, in small groups, and in whole-class meetings; • the… |
Sequence 5home. Have you had the experience of finding it difficult to persuade parents to move away from traditional practices and… |
Sequence 45wants to be; it is an active way of taking her away from thinking about that and getting her focused on my face. Some little… |
Sequence 47approve of what you've done. You've met my standards." What you're doing is merely helping her experi… |
Sequence 4he thinks he can go anywhere, and the urge to explore and discover his world has to be limited rather than pushed. Motivation… |
Sequence 15. . . in all of these approaches is a deep re-spect for the living reality of the children that we work with-that we use… |
Sequence 26that's been traditionally called the family farm, because those people will not be living on that land. They won't… |
Sequence 1Introduction MARIO MONTESSORI: IN SEARCH OF A DEEPER FREEDOM A LIFE 1 S JOURNEY OF EDUCATIONAL IDEAS by David Kahn When… |
Sequence 3where we - d with t and spi• At the time, Dr. Montessori and I cer- tainly felt the inner burden of the situation. It was… |
Sequence 11this idea on its head, she once commented at a gathering to honor her, "The highest honor and the deepest gratitude… |
Sequence 8"Our baby will be born in May," Jessica figures. "What a beautiful month!" And they begin… |
Sequence 21know 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 29The other thing we know, and this is primarily from work at the University of Chicago, is that language is irrepressible, that… |
Sequence 41Contrary to what Piaget thought, imitation, we now know, begins at birth. Some studies show that even newborn babies can… |
Sequence 5creatures can't do this. So the difference is not a quantitative differ- ence-it's not that we are a little bit… |
Sequence 18and language. So you might think there's got to be a connection between the two. But what precisely is the connection?… |
Sequence 21• 4 merges= 16 units (from 400 to SOO neurons, a 25% increase) Therefore, it takes a 150% increase to pass beyond the two-word… |
Sequence 9Afterward: Extending beyond the six weeks was continued work on refining their mission statements in preparation for… |
Sequence 8Everything about the children ment clearly urges middle schools to has a history, and if the stu- transform the fundamental… |
Sequence 6have not had Montessori Our thoughts were that those children would be very carefully selected, certainly not children with… |
Sequence 4Joosten: I don't think there is a yes or a no. Is it either or? There is a blend. We can't go outside to an… |
Sequence 1The Montessori Erd- The Montessori Erdkinder, insofar as it kinder concept is far from a is a home away from home for the… |
Sequence 5For all that, I thought it must be possible to apply certain funda- mental principles of the Montessori method to secondary… |
Sequence 32from fairly affluent families who ran away from home for the thrill of becoming street musicians and earnjng a few pennies on… |
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 2forty-five years prior to any of the early brain research on the potentials of children under three. So once again she was a… |
Sequence 22having one drink. Three percent admitted to drinking at least one drink per day or at least one binge. So alcohol consumption… |
Sequence 28Let me first talk about cytomegalovirus (CMV), which is a very common virus. It poses no danger to most of us. In fact, many… |
Sequence 8physically what happens to your body when you hit adolescence. I can't talk to boys because I've never experienced… |
Sequence 17A: It's like we don't discuss all the emotional ramifications of all the things that could happen in a birth. Every… |
Sequence 19with adolescents who didn't go through this program who were doing internships. I tried to give them some idea of where… |
Sequence 21A: To address your first issue, that whole value about the essence of love and the creation of new life is there before we… |
Sequence 5People here are having fun; teachers learn from you and you learn from the teachers. We can come to them [teachers] with… |
Sequence 4ables him to grow, teaches him to speak, and thus perfects him" (The Secret of Childhood 36). It was Betty… |
Sequence 12What you have to remember is that when the children start work- ing with the moveable alphabet and can put out the pictures of… |
Sequence 22BARBARA KAHN: Here is another question about things that we wish were happening but that aren't happening: What happens… |
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 9------------------------------- ----- ment is connected with all parts of learning. A student wrote to me when she was in… |
Sequence 11Montessori emphasizes the importance of these adolescents being protected and prepared, so that they can become strong, so… |
Sequence 21"All right, what should we do?" says the teacher. "Who has an idea?" There are false… |
Sequence 28there are some university instructors who do that as well? They prepare a syllabus before they've met their students!… |
Sequence 33I hope you never forget as long as you live, is, Who cnres? If you ever forget that's the correct answer, it will hold… |
Sequence 42is given to kids on a regular basis? Should I skip this entirely, then, or would it be helpful, as with the other stuff, to… |
Sequence 44But won't kids just go home and play video games if we don't give them homework? Here's what I say: First,… |
Sequence 20things and said, "That's not the way I present that." So they've got to do their own. Even if I… |
Sequence 22are. So one of the beauties of the journey is that the parents and teachers get to work with each other in a different way… |
Sequence 4program called Bal-A-Vis-X, overseen by an occupational therapist (seeGranke and Leigh-Doyle). This is part of our whole-… |
Sequence 5The Montessori perspective is to get students to operationalize the ideas themselves. If we ignore their way of thinking and… |
Sequence 11problems or thirty geometry problems, when they've already mastered it and understand it after doing three or four. It… |
Sequence 6In this book we shall consider the different stages of human de- velopment and try to understand their significance with the… |
Sequence 12Placed on a soft surface, they are comfortable and they can do their work and they always let me know when they are finished… |
Sequence 68. Prepare yourself for the birthi11g of your child. You may want to consider taking a birthing class and think about your… |
Sequence 19• Significant discrepancy between overall cognitive ability (i.e., IQ) and achievement (a standardized academic achieve- ment… |
Sequence 21Learningdisabilitiescan affect some or all of the following domains: reading, attention, or language (articulation,… |