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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 6projects, ranging from elaborate drawings of Bronze Age armor to an animated cartoon, from epic poetry to a detailed… |
Sequence 6Fundamental to the hunter-gatherer adaptation is the belief that either we will all live together or we will die together.… |
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 2GL. How best do you see us helping children, especially the adolescents who are moving towards taking their place in the… |
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 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 32University of Vermont, where they held 750 high school Latin stu- dents spellbound in a gym during a presentation at Vermont… |
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 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 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 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 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 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 1or Los Angeles. But the Greeks who began to live on the farm created a chauvinism about what they did and who they were.… |
Sequence 13all of you as teachers should remember one thing: Your allegiance is not to make people feel good but it is to the truth.… |
Sequence 17And he said, "Well, you've got this Wal-Mart." Well, Wal-Mart in California-I suppose it's the… |
Sequence 23What tragedy from the agrarian experience does is to teach a stu- dent that there are certain terrible things in the world… |
Sequence 28three hundred and you've got two hundred. What did you do wrong?" Or when I had these plum trees, thegreattrag… |
Sequence 7Do they love them? Yes, they do. Do they want to do those little fasteners? Yes, they do. My granddaughter, at seventeen… |
Sequence 20cupful a ta time from the fish tank to the sink. He dumped it in and then mopped up the spills and then got the cup and… |
Sequence 21A). As I said, most drugs tend to fall into Category C, which basically relieves the drug company of responsibility. Still,… |
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 6a great whining place. You can just sit here and whine as long as you like." But when a toddler has learned to… |
Sequence 9weekend. We certainly had an interesting discussion yesterday in that little workshop on using this information in-did we ever… |
Sequence 8physically what happens to your body when you hit adolescence. I can't talk to boys because I've never experienced… |
Sequence 12And I was very up-front: "This is what I'm going todo." "Do you think my child's too… |
Sequence 15realize your child is not your child anymore. Your child is now entering a phase of life when they could physiologically be… |
Sequence 25conceived in love-the love between two women-and the sperm just came from somebody else. Butthat child, in fact, from their… |
Sequence 19then emerged and lived on that stage. The Gaia view is that the very stage was created and is being regulated and maintained… |
Sequence 20earliest stages is the only power on earth that can change the course of humanity in one gen- eration. So I'm more… |
Sequence 3mentally congruent view of the importance of contact with nature in childhood. PROBLEMATIZING NATURE EDUCATION One of the… |
Sequence 8present hopefulness. We are being invited to grow and to change and to move more fully intowholenessourselves,as we observe… |
Sequence 12learn and do a lot, but of course most farm kids don't expect to be farmers. They want to go so mew here else, so even… |
Sequence 10they did it with ninety-eight percent efficiency. The spacecraft would be headed to the moon, but it wasn't quite on… |
Sequence 13As for our schools' cosmic task, the State of Texas has given us permission to open up to six charter schools. Our big… |
Sequence 11each of the sounds that we use when we speak has a picture of itself, just like the photograph we can have of ourselves. In so… |
Sequence 14Now, you know that we usually have two object boxes: One is totally phonetic, like dog or hat, and one contains sounds that… |
Sequence 20already using by playing the I Spy game, which we now call the sound game for that reason. BARBARA KAHN: I think that helps a… |
Sequence 21this is the thing, isn't it? It's just getting to know the picture of something. They know the sounds. It's… |
Sequence 14organic cotton, we lost a bout $20 millioninsales. Weknewwewere going to lose a lot in sales, but we lost about $20 million… |
Sequence 16recycled cardboard, we moved it down to sixteen cents a package. Then we just did rubber bands and one little card, and it… |
Sequence 16I would like to conclude with my daughter's speech to the 1998 Ruffing graduating class because it conveys very well, I… |
Sequence 8pressed. If, in terms of abilities within the class, a child has come to understand that some people have more ability in math… |
Sequence 7as a teacher, or as a resident living in a community, want to be able, in part, to shape the environment-to make it a better… |
Sequence 25What I learned is that helping kids find the thing they love to do is really hard. It's usually not the first thing, not… |
Sequence 28learning. Assessment also should involve analytical, creative, and practical, as well as memory components. You make the… |
Sequence 9Back to Real Work The goal of education is to teach for things that are culturally valued, not for abstract notions I ike… |
Sequence 26and what they can do with what they know. And, in any case, great teachers don't need them because they are getting a… |
Sequence 14Let me tell you something that has been said over and over: "I had such a spiritual experience."… |
Sequence 19WHvTwo DAvs? When I came back to the Barbara Gordon Montessori School ten years ago, I was dumbfounded to find that they had… |
Sequence 20things and said, "That's not the way I present that." So they've got to do their own. Even if I… |
Sequence 26being a child in so many years. And to try to get in touch with myself as a child is ... I can't even express it.&… |
Sequence 12The fact that women in the Nordic nations are about forty percent of the national legislatures has had a profound effect on… |
Sequence 13work because we humans learn through experience, through model- ing, but we also learn through stories, we live through… |
Sequence 15to maintain the domination system. Think about it for a moment, there's the story of original sin, and what really is the… |
Sequence 17students who can't hear and process and write at the same time need to develop a system where somebody else can take… |
Sequence 22to 5 years old. First Contact screens children in our Toddler (ages 18 months to 2½ years) and Primary (ages 2½ to 5 years)… |
Sequence 6"Synapse": connection between 2 neurons \{) dendrites ce II body 4 synapse -- - \ "f :i -,.… |
Sequence 7One thing we do know is that these synapses are the greatest site of plasticity or change. The brain is not fixed; it is… |