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Sequence 11we spent a lot of time there together as a family. She really appreci- ated having all of this open space to explore. This… |
Sequence 5sampling all the sort of cognitive tasks that brains need to do, and I have to say that the number of things we can measure is… |
Sequence 6your training about how long it takes a child to master a pink tower, etc. You've got a really thorough developmental… |
Sequence 44Anxiety This is how we are built, and some of us are built a little more emotionally unstable than others. Consider the… |
Sequence 45There will be an activating event-something that elicits a startle response. "What do you mean we're going out… |
Sequence 64how a child is doing relative to other children in the same school. It can crate comparative reports that can be printed out.… |
Sequence 9l:f you wish to learn of Alexandria and the Scroll and the lighthouse, you too must become their keeper. Along with me, you… |
Sequence 14I thought, when the student raised his hand and said, "Yeah, I get that. When am I going to use this?"… |
Sequence 15tions, these techniques that we're doing in the math classroom and apply them to all different areas, whether it's… |
Sequence 54. Schools have started having deeper,more meaningful conversations with their constituents. The first of the ninety-five… |
Sequence 11call it 11, multiply by two, and that's 211. Add five, and it's 211 + 5. Multiply by five, and it's 1011 + 25.… |
Sequence 5The Mongols were brilliant military strategists and pow- erful warriors. Any male aged fifteen to sixty who was physically… |
Sequence 6naturally to me, because 1 felt it was a sign of weakness: I asked for help. 1 called the Montessori Institute. Miss… |
Sequence 11Start with a hook. This is how we seduce them. A conspiratorial tone as you lean in to tell them something really amazing… |
Sequence 5about that make his face fall?" Those conscious inferences are un- necessary because the cognitive processes that… |
Sequence 11extra support for slower students), the student with overall lower aptitude will still be behind the student with higher… |
Sequence 14How Knowledge Helps You Circumvent Thinking It's not just facts that reside in memory; solutions to problems, complex… |
Sequence 2Here'smyhouse,analmost-hundred-year-oldbungalowinPortland, Oregon. I don't live in my house in Portland right now.… |
Sequence 22common culture. And yet, because of the way that we each process stories in our own brains, nobody is hearing the exact same… |
Sequence 28And here's another zumpkin. There's a similar understand- ing of the importance of words to process emotion at work… |
Sequence 25Some people use a planning sheet to explore their wonder. What other questions do you have about your topic? You should have a… |
Sequence 8Figure 5a • • I I ,t T I I' T 1 # l .,., .... ,, .. " ....... , ..... . • 14 • .. •#••t•ll.-it ♦ ,_C.AT… |
Sequence 8Kahn: They must really love you. Gadpaille: Some of them do and some of them don't. But before it's over they do… |
Sequence 3good for discussion because all it leads to is other people saying, "Ooh" or "Aah" or &… |
Sequence 79weeks befol"e I found out what was happening. They finally admitted to me that they were banging on the wall between… |
Sequence 117MURIEL DWYER: ON THE WAY TO THE AIRPORT by David Kahn Although Ms. Dwyer has written a short pamphlet entitled Key to… |
Sequence 135bedside table was a prayer book, and a new book by Luciano Mazzetti (speaking at the Summer Washington Conference) and a note… |
Sequence 81projects, ranging from elaborate drawings of Bronze Age armor to an animated cartoon, from epic poetry to a detailed… |
Sequence 106Fundamental to the hunter-gatherer adaptation is the belief that either we will all live together or we will die together.… |
Sequence 77are able to visualize any given lrnowledge. By 18 you have envisioned the whole universe. Then at 18 you decide what your… |
Sequence 81Kahn: That's very interesting. Who are some of the people you tell stories about besides George Washington? Gunawardena… |
Sequence 31GL. How best do you see us helping children, especially the adolescents who are moving towards taking their place in the… |
Sequence 163So we read The Buuer Battle Book. It was Dr. Seuss' metaphor for the Cold War and the devel.opment of atomic weapons. Our… |
Sequence 112test tales in which you must listen and then repeat it exactly, never saying "a" when you should say &… |
Sequence 114around Germany among the people whose dialects still preserved some of the old forms, as some dialects do in many parts of… |
Sequence 116with them and know them. The dominant animals have, of course, changed a great deal. You get the dominance of the bear in the… |
Sequence 117Another one is "those youngest best," which means, historically, that iri a matriarchate, the youngest son… |
Sequence 118have been traced, and seventeen Robin Hoods. This snowballing happens because there are so few names. Even in England-… |
Sequence 143BACKGROUND OF TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS Teacher Background The two teachers who were trained in Montessori methods, A and B at… |
Sequence 45results in "teaching for intelligence." That puts the cart before the horse. If you want to put the cart and… |
Sequence 128If you're a Bell Curve thinker, you think that a quarter of the people don't even have intel- lect and most of… |
Sequence 130and 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 159234-235). In a Montessori elementary class, the children are allowed to form groups; most of their work is done in groups.… |
Sequence 118University of Vermont, where they held 750 high school Latin stu- dents spellbound in a gym during a presentation at Vermont… |
Sequence 22skills, then you would be bored. The flow experience seems to occur in that diagonal; in fact, it does occur in the diagonal… |
Sequence 112THE PREPARED ENVIRONMENT by Eduardo J. Cuevas In this summary of his workshop session, Eduardo Cuevas explores what really… |
Sequence 33you saturate a child in an environment of so-called logical conse- quences, that child, if he grows up and thinks he can get… |
Sequence 38There 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 40But the fact that young children are so hungry for our approval-are they not?-puts an enormous burden on our shoulders not to… |
Sequence 44a different direction, to teach you everything about motivation that I know on one overhead (see Figure 3). It took me a while… |
Sequence 56We do it with infant rooms. "Good clapping!" Please. Fortu- nately, at the infant level they're too… |
Sequence 57set 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 132little children, these little four-year-olds and five-year-olds, seven-, eight-, nine-year-olds. They sound like adults when… |
Sequence 133which caused Suzuki to place heavy emphasis on environment over intelligence, and that's why, to be a Suzuki student, he… |
Sequence 134requires it; it requires that we dialogue. If you dialogue, you've got to be culturally salient. I think you will hear in… |
Sequence 140'I don't want to do that anymore. I don't want to pay attention to that anymore.' That's what this is… |
Sequence 247corporate agriculture-farm owners don't want to live where they farm because it's boring, it's dirty; they… |
Sequence 260quite accurate analysis. I think we all have to realize that farms like mine are being destroyed in California. All of my… |
Sequence 263And I said, "What do you mean?" And he said, "Well, you've got this Wal-Mart." Well… |
Sequence 269I thought, "Oh, this is stupid." Then they said, "What are you going to do with these coyotes?… |
Sequence 274Oeconomicus-that one person can take a piece of ground and do something with it and another person simply can't. Believe… |
Sequence 288So you've created a hierarchy. You're judgmental. You have certain values that you think are better. Well, the same… |
Sequence 225this child showing me?" and you ask the child what he or she likes to do. My nephew attends a Montessori preschool.… |
Sequence 22If 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 203I'm going to suggest today that creative expression is as vital to a human being's development and learning as any… |
Sequence 214Here are a few general ways to make problem solving work for you. First of all, ask more, tell less. Ask more questions,… |
Sequence 271Ron Ackerman, Head of School, (email) rackerman@richmont.org Christine McDonald, Director of Studies, (email) cmcdonald@… |
Sequence 67"Oh, well-you mean, don't give them any?" And I said, "Yes, don't give them any problems… |
Sequence 133Experiences that are fully engaging involve not only a combination of high challenge and high skill, but also opportunities… |
Sequence 20dendrites synapse axon Figure 2. Synapse: a connection between two neurons. dendrite and out through the axon, but the… |
Sequence 29social. We wouldn't have any need for language without a social group. And of course it can't be learned in… |
Sequence 34slowly. Their speech tends to be domi- nated by nouns and maybe verbs. They drop all the little con- nection words and… |
Sequence 114You 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 120there was more or less a limit of, say, three to five meaningful symbols or utterances. As for the two-word stage and syntax… |
Sequence 123all the time, and ourselves a lot of the time, are preoccupied with incoming messages. We have to make sense of our… |
Sequence 108to go from the personal point of view of the adolescent to more general sorts of things and then on to the development of… |
Sequence 146I 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 344The Greeks found out that this new diversi- tied scheme gave each farm family au- tonomy that could not be undermined by… |
Sequence 356all of you as teachers should remember one thing: Your allegiance is not to make people feel good but it is to the truth.… |
Sequence 360And he said, "Well, you've got this Wal-Mart." Well, Wal-Mart in California-I suppose it's the… |
Sequence 366What tragedy from the agrarian experience does is to teach a stu- dent that there are certain terrible things in the world… |
Sequence 371three hundred and you've got two hundred. What did you do wrong?" Or when I had these plum trees, thegreattrag… |
Sequence 384sary and good, but they won't reduplicate in total the agrarian expe- rience. Q: Along with the positive values that… |
Sequence 79Do they love them? Yes, they do. Do they want to do those little fasteners? Yes, they do. My granddaughter, at seventeen… |
Sequence 92cupful 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 160A). As I said, most drugs tend to fall into Category C, which basically relieves the drug company of responsibility. Still,… |
Sequence 167Let me first talk about cytomegalovirus (CMV), which is a very common virus. It poses no danger to most of us. In fact, many… |
Sequence 178a great whining place. You can just sit here and whine as long as you like." But when a toddler has learned to… |
Sequence 181weekend. We certainly had an interesting discussion yesterday in that little workshop on using this information in-did we ever… |
Sequence 202physically what happens to your body when you hit adolescence. I can't talk to boys because I've never experienced… |
Sequence 206And I was very up-front: "This is what I'm going todo." "Do you think my child's too… |
Sequence 209realize your child is not your child anymore. Your child is now entering a phase of life when they could physiologically be… |
Sequence 219conceived in love-the love between two women-and the sperm just came from somebody else. Butthat child, in fact, from their… |
Sequence 178then emerged and lived on that stage. The Gaia view is that the very stage was created and is being regulated and maintained… |
Sequence 179earliest stages is the only power on earth that can change the course of humanity in one gen- eration. So I'm more… |
Sequence 212mentally congruent view of the importance of contact with nature in childhood. PROBLEMATIZING NATURE EDUCATION One of the… |
Sequence 44present hopefulness. We are being invited to grow and to change and to move more fully intowholenessourselves,as we observe… |
Sequence 125learn 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 137they did it with ninety-eight percent efficiency. The spacecraft would be headed to the moon, but it wasn't quite on… |
Sequence 140As for our schools' cosmic task, the State of Texas has given us permission to open up to six charter schools. Our big… |