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Sequence 5instructional activities that will help children develop the learning-to- learn skills and behaviors associated with school… |
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 7Time duration of interactions was significantly different between the two schools. Montessori children interacted longer times… |
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 7feelings of others. Why couldn't he pursue his mission and still be accepted by others? Seems to me he'd have a… |
Sequence 10complex civilizations that the Mexican philosopher and educator Jose Vasconcelos dubbed them "the cosmic race.&… |
Sequence 8whether it can be done on a sufficient scale under present conditions? And the best guess is, probably not. That is why so… |
Sequence 6...... The Montessori Birth Center served as a referral service, matching Assistants to Infancy with families desiring their… |
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 19Ass~MEN'f AND REFORM by Ramsay Selden The "right kind of assessment, " asserts Ramsay Selden, can… |
Sequence 9S. I Hiyakawa, who was my president out at San Francisco State, is a wonderful person. When Dr. Hiyakawa was running for… |
Sequence 3Maybe, as I came to be more at home in the world, understanding more of what's really in it and how it works, the dark… |
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 12danced. That is the one group of stories in which you should change your normal voice; tell them quickly and keep the rhythm.… |
Sequence 2concrete, real, and relevant to the lives of young children; (5) provid- ing experiences for children that are outside of the… |
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 10You want them to get busy with all the things I saw out here in the exhibits. You want them to see a banquet out there. You… |
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 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 6school operation as a whole, maintained by a young family. Thus the Erdkinder is teeming with so many opportunities for work… |
Sequence 17In any case, I remind the students, their job is not to retell Homer word for word, but rather to present the story in their… |
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 19If you're getting kias to do good stuff in order to please you, With• out a sticker in sight, you have a problem. If… |
Sequence 3It set me on a path of discovery, I guess, because I'm attracted to people who are what I call great teachers. I usually… |
Sequence 19Q: Since we've been at a conference that has discussed ultimacy, that is, the destiny of the universe and the destiny of… |
Sequence 20own culture. We're better people than that"-not to say, "Oh, don't do that. We've got to go… |
Sequence 18have to go down to Chile to find that. The answer, then, that I am suggesting is again the material appetite-the reason why… |
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 15Open up to nature And enter Yet another world THE FUTURE CHALLENGE: FORMING A NEW CONSCIOUSNESS There needs to be a &… |
Sequence 8Critical Thinking as a Form of Creative Expression Oftentimes in school children are asked to memorize and repeat. What is… |
Sequence 9--------------------------------~-- But memorize-and-repeat leads to a narrow kind of learning. This approach all too often… |
Sequence 9initially shown spontaneous interest, quickly lose that interest. They now realize that rewards reduce a child's desire… |
Sequence 18initially shown spontaneous interest, quickly lose that interest. They now realize that rewards reduce a child's desire… |
Sequence 40--------------------------------~-- But memorize-and-repeat leads to a narrow kind of learning. This approach all too often… |
Sequence 41Critical Thinking as a Form of Creative Expression Oftentimes in school children are asked to memorize and repeat. What is… |
Sequence 9Because, even with all the glory and the grandeur of those furnish- ings, the world would have been an unfilled promise, this… |
Sequence 2COSMIC EDUCATION by Margaret E. Stephenson Cosmic Education is, in a way, what we have been leading up to all these days,… |
Sequence 23excitement in Jiving. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as… |
Sequence 7with the soul-space in the surrounding world. Knowledge is a pres- ence of two beings in a single psychic space. One of the… |
Sequence 34assuming they're in a normal language environment. It really does show how good their little brains are at learning the… |
Sequence 8primary and elementary classes. Dr. Montessori attempted to show us that in the child we are dealing with a human being and… |
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 2Erdkinder Atlanta: Danish? Joosten: Yes, there are some schools there. But these are for prestige, not yet for education.… |
Sequence 12to follow an indigenous Aztec pattern of development. That's a very cruel thing to say, but it's absolutely true.… |
Sequence 5Criticism of democracy has ea used the biggest trouble in my own life-not only in reviews but also after lectures-and some… |
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 3Appropriately enough, although Dan was almost certain and a few of us suspected that our data might be off, we did not fully… |
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 7Do they love them? Yes, they do. Do they want to do those little fasteners? Yes, they do. My granddaughter, at seventeen… |
Sequence 9A: Flipping up and down-I don't know ifl' d recommend flipping up and down with toddlers, because they'll try… |
Sequence 17At this same school, the children in the early school care program would come to one building to have their breakfast and do… |
Sequence 1LIFETIME DEVELOPMENT AS SEEN THROUGH THE FIRST THREE YEARS OF LIFE by Judi Orion Early development shapes one's… |
Sequence 6before you can be really sure that they're never going to have a lapse in toileting. And, of course, given the conditions… |
Sequence 7fails to challenge children from an infant community, who, you re- member, have been actively involved in practical life… |
Sequence 8child said, "Well, I think the people in Kosovo and Croatia need the light to stop fighting. And other people need… |
Sequence 13Prepare the environment for the child's interest. And then after preparing the environment and after introducing all… |
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 32the room, we find it's information that we've heard before. And it's nice to be validated as teachers to know… |
Sequence 11that division of labor also made possible the exploitation of labor. Hunter-gatherers could not really exploit each other.… |
Sequence 4nism. This red-baiting took its toll on our new teacher, who felt personally attacked and resigned just before school started… |
Sequence 7our school, unbeknownst to me, was relationships between the school director (me) and the teachers. "Oh, yes, she… |
Sequence 10they did it with ninety-eight percent efficiency. The spacecraft would be headed to the moon, but it wasn't quite on… |
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… |
Sequence 158to this further exploration are not set by the number of different fields of learning or knowledge, but by the psychology of… |