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Sequence 85each 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 88Now, you know that we usually have two object boxes: One is totally phonetic, like dog or hat, and one contains sounds that… |
Sequence 94already 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 95this is the thing, isn't it? It's just getting to know the picture of something. They know the sounds. It's… |
Sequence 202organic cotton, we lost a bout $20 millioninsales. Weknewwewere going to lose a lot in sales, but we lost about $20 million… |
Sequence 204recycled cardboard, we moved it down to sixteen cents a package. Then we just did rubber bands and one little card, and it… |
Sequence 62I would like to conclude with my daughter's speech to the 1998 Ruffing graduating class because it conveys very well, I… |
Sequence 108pressed. If, in terms of abilities within the class, a child has come to understand that some people have more ability in math… |
Sequence 35as 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 53What 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 56learning. Assessment also should involve analytical, creative, and practical, as well as memory components. You make the… |
Sequence 85Back to Real Work The goal of education is to teach for things that are culturally valued, not for abstract notions I ike… |
Sequence 56and what they can do with what they know. And, in any case, great teachers don't need them because they are getting a… |
Sequence 93Let me tell you something that has been said over and over: "I had such a spiritual experience."… |
Sequence 98WHvTwo DAvs? When I came back to the Barbara Gordon Montessori School ten years ago, I was dumbfounded to find that they had… |
Sequence 99things and said, "That's not the way I present that." So they've got to do their own. Even if I… |
Sequence 105being 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 243The fact that women in the Nordic nations are about forty percent of the national legislatures has had a profound effect on… |
Sequence 244work because we humans learn through experience, through model- ing, but we also learn through stories, we live through… |
Sequence 246to maintain the domination system. Think about it for a moment, there's the story of original sin, and what really is the… |
Sequence 166students who can't hear and process and write at the same time need to develop a system where somebody else can take… |
Sequence 171to 5 years old. First Contact screens children in our Toddler (ages 18 months to 2½ years) and Primary (ages 2½ to 5 years)… |
Sequence 67"Synapse": connection between 2 neurons \{) dendrites ce II body 4 synapse -- - \ "f :i -,.… |
Sequence 68One thing we do know is that these synapses are the greatest site of plasticity or change. The brain is not fixed; it is… |
Sequence 200we spent a lot of time there together as a family. She really appreci- ated having all of this open space to explore. This… |
Sequence 84sampling 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 85your training about how long it takes a child to master a pink tower, etc. You've got a really thorough developmental… |
Sequence 123Anxiety This is how we are built, and some of us are built a little more emotionally unstable than others. Consider the… |
Sequence 124There will be an activating event-something that elicits a startle response. "What do you mean we're going out… |
Sequence 143how a child is doing relative to other children in the same school. It can crate comparative reports that can be printed out.… |
Sequence 155l:f you wish to learn of Alexandria and the Scroll and the lighthouse, you too must become their keeper. Along with me, you… |
Sequence 286I thought, when the student raised his hand and said, "Yeah, I get that. When am I going to use this?"… |
Sequence 287tions, these techniques that we're doing in the math classroom and apply them to all different areas, whether it's… |
Sequence 1484. Schools have started having deeper,more meaningful conversations with their constituents. The first of the ninety-five… |
Sequence 144call 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 68The Mongols were brilliant military strategists and pow- erful warriors. Any male aged fifteen to sixty who was physically… |
Sequence 48naturally to me, because 1 felt it was a sign of weakness: I asked for help. 1 called the Montessori Institute. Miss… |
Sequence 73Start with a hook. This is how we seduce them. A conspiratorial tone as you lean in to tell them something really amazing… |
Sequence 215about that make his face fall?" Those conscious inferences are un- necessary because the cognitive processes that… |
Sequence 221extra support for slower students), the student with overall lower aptitude will still be behind the student with higher… |
Sequence 224How Knowledge Helps You Circumvent Thinking It's not just facts that reside in memory; solutions to problems, complex… |
Sequence 9Here'smyhouse,analmost-hundred-year-oldbungalowinPortland, Oregon. I don't live in my house in Portland right now.… |
Sequence 29common culture. And yet, because of the way that we each process stories in our own brains, nobody is hearing the exact same… |
Sequence 35And here's another zumpkin. There's a similar understand- ing of the importance of words to process emotion at work… |
Sequence 68Some people use a planning sheet to explore their wonder. What other questions do you have about your topic? You should have a… |
Sequence 38Figure 5a • • I I ,t T I I' T 1 # l .,., .... ,, .. " ....... , ..... . • 14 • .. •#••t•ll.-it ♦ ,_C.AT… |
Sequence 44Kahn: They must really love you. Gadpaille: Some of them do and some of them don't. But before it's over they do… |
Sequence 35good for discussion because all it leads to is other people saying, "Ooh" or "Aah" or &… |
Sequence 28may do to you when they grow up and you have entered your second childhood. In contrast, Montessori advocates sleeping… |