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Sequence 5instructional activities that will help children develop the learning-to- learn skills and behaviors associated with school… |
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 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 6projects, ranging from elaborate drawings of Bronze Age armor to an animated cartoon, from epic poetry to a detailed… |
Sequence 10complex civilizations that the Mexican philosopher and educator Jose Vasconcelos dubbed them "the cosmic race.&… |
Sequence 6Fundamental to the hunter-gatherer adaptation is the belief that either we will all live together or we will die together.… |
Sequence 6...... The Montessori Birth Center served as a referral service, matching Assistants to Infancy with families desiring their… |
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 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 2GL. How best do you see us helping children, especially the adolescents who are moving towards taking their place in the… |
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 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 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 5BACKGROUND OF TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS Teacher Background The two teachers who were trained in Montessori methods, A and B at… |
Sequence 9exception was in one of the Montessori classrooms, where a student, described by her teacher to have a mother addicted to… |
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 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 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 15skills, then you would be bored. The flow experience seems to occur in that diagonal; in fact, it does occur in the diagonal… |
Sequence 1THE PREPARED ENVIRONMENT by Eduardo J. Cuevas In this summary of his workshop session, Eduardo Cuevas explores what really… |
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 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 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 13this child showing me?" and you ask the child what he or she likes to do. My nephew attends a Montessori preschool.… |
Sequence 14If you can't look him straight in the eye. He's the fellow to please, never mind all the rest, For he's with… |
Sequence 5I'm going to suggest today that creative expression is as vital to a human being's development and learning as any… |
Sequence 16Here are a few general ways to make problem solving work for you. First of all, ask more, tell less. Ask more questions,… |
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 33Here are a few general ways to make problem solving work for you. First of all, ask more, tell less. Ask more questions,… |
Sequence 44I'm going to suggest today that creative expression is as vital to a human being's development and learning as any… |
Sequence 9Because, even with all the glory and the grandeur of those furnish- ings, the world would have been an unfilled promise, this… |
Sequence 11"Oh, well-you mean, don't give them any?" And I said, "Yes, don't give them any problems… |
Sequence 6Experiences that are fully engaging involve not only a combination of high challenge and high skill, but also opportunities… |
Sequence 6dendrites synapse axon Figure 2. Synapse: a connection between two neurons. dendrite and out through the axon, but the… |
Sequence 15social. We wouldn't have any need for language without a social group. And of course it can't be learned in… |
Sequence 20slowly. Their speech tends to be domi- nated by nouns and maybe verbs. They drop all the little con- nection words and… |
Sequence 10You have to be able to think, something as follows: Often if you hit an animal with a weapon, the weapon falls out, and the… |
Sequence 16there was more or less a limit of, say, three to five meaningful symbols or utterances. As for the two-word stage and syntax… |
Sequence 19all the time, and ourselves a lot of the time, are preoccupied with incoming messages. We have to make sense of our… |
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 17to go from the personal point of view of the adolescent to more general sorts of things and then on to the development of… |
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 4I really have no way of knowing what you are feeling right now as you wait to be handed your diploma, but in addition to some… |
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 1or Los Angeles. But the Greeks who began to live on the farm created a chauvinism about what they did and who they were.… |