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Sequence 2recommend it to the school and community on the Pine Ridge Reser- vation, and even to the state of South Dakota. The location… |
Sequence 5A Variety of Interesting Readers for Primary and Early Elementary I Can Read Se1'ies: Harper & Row, New York.… |
Sequence 2Culturally too, silence has many interpretations. Within our society silence can be construed as inferring compliance or… |
Sequence 3included as a mandatory part of our school curricula. On the other hand, Konstantil explained, "Here we give the… |
Sequence 1EDITORIAL: AMI MONTESSORI: BACK TO THE FUTURE By David Kahn We are in the turmoil of becoming. And as one undergoes the… |
Sequence 1COSMIC EDUCATION: SOWING LIFE, NOT THEORIES by David Kahn This is an attempt to clarify the role of Cosmic Education in… |
Sequence 5minutes of testing each month. Results showed that the cultural model consistently outperformed the Montessori model and the… |
Sequence 6The research took place in the Clavis Montessori Head Start centers staffed by Montessori teachers in Fullerton and Costa Mesa… |
Sequence 1GENEROUS UNDERSTANDING: KNOWING OURSELVES AND EACH OTHER by Edwin Delattre Delattre's wide range of human experience,… |
Sequence 10complex civilizations that the Mexican philosopher and educator Jose Vasconcelos dubbed them "the cosmic race.&… |
Sequence 1MONTESSORI EDUCATION AND CHILDREN PLACED AT RISK OF SCHOOL FAILURE by Christopher Harris Mr. Harris' short but… |
Sequence 6ethnic groups struggling for popular control over the schools. In the midst of ugly strike and turmoil, there appeared quiet… |
Sequence 3understood better through discussions of bonding, and attachment, and so forth. And so they began to see that here was another… |
Sequence 2strides they had touched che outer limits of che universe, they painted their timdines, collected fossils and rocks of… |
Sequence 10GL They will be learning to respect diversity by working with it. You talk about the role of the human being to celebrate, to… |
Sequence 10viva] of the fittest demands, safeguarding tradition in order to under- stand how co achieve social and technical skills… |
Sequence 6expressions of daily life. Latin has the ability to establish a sense of "felt" continuity with the past and… |
Sequence 3To use more familiar language, the divine arts are theology and related studies. The liberal arts (traditionally classified as… |
Sequence 12This will always stick in my mind: two men, talking about two black, disabled soldiers who had not been shot by the enemy but… |
Sequence 17The other type is contagious magic, which says that things once in contact are always in contact. Now, that is at the root of… |
Sequence 8Around six, the child un- dergoes a greattransfor- mation. He is now no longer satisfied with the society of his family and… |
Sequence 2Reading, seminars, field experiences, journaling, interviewing, and expository and creative writing are integrated into this… |
Sequence 6Alexander the Great, another Greek, was also a great traveller, founding Alexandria in Egypt, and many other towns named… |
Sequence 1THE GREAT STORY OF AI.ExA.NoRJA by John Wyatt, PhD Strange,~ I've been watching here, captured in the sounds and… |
Sequence 17disturbing the other's sleep and, more importanl, how to comfort each other when one awoke in the middle of the night out… |
Sequence 1Timeline of Montessori Adolescent Programs 1900 1910 1907: Casadei Bambini founded In Rome 1920 1930 early 1930s: first… |
Sequence 717. Numerical notations and the mystery of zero 18. The Middle Ages and the return of alphabetic literacy 19. The printing… |
Sequence 1Rist, R. (1970). Social class and teacher expectations: The self- fulfilling prophecy in ghetto education. Harvard Educational… |
Sequence 19Rist, R. (1970). Social class and teacher expectations: The self- fulfilling prophecy in ghetto education. Harvard Educational… |
Sequence 10517. Numerical notations and the mystery of zero 18. The Middle Ages and the return of alphabetic literacy 19. The printing… |
Sequence 2for the most part, dependent upon the opinions and decisions of teachers and school administrators in determining the… |
Sequence 1GROUNDS FOR CHANGE: LEARNING THROUGH LANDSCAPES IN BRITAIN by Bill Lucas There are more than 30,000 schools in Britain.… |
Sequence 2need to return to Montessori's writing-particularly From Childhood to Adolescence and Education and Peace. But it was… |
Sequence 1MARIA MONTESSORI AND THE "GLASS HOUSE" by Alan Bonsteel, MD Dr. Bonstee/' s article not only conveys… |
Sequence 5and Montessori teaching in the U.S. fell on hard times. Some of the new "Montessori" schools in the U.S.… |
Sequence 17parison with this all-too-frequent condition, the total involvement of flow is experienced as rewarding. Our studies over the… |
Sequence 19THE CONSEQUENCES OF FLOW There are many reasons why experiencing flow is beneficial. Per- haps the most important is also the… |
Sequence 1THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION: A MODEL FOR EDUCATIONAL CHANGE by Rexford Brown Dr. Brown first highlights the ways in which a… |
Sequence 3designed to meet new needs, it becomes increasingly isolated from its clients or customers. Broken into tiny subunits where… |
Sequence 28Every one of the people we interviewed has the same rhythm. It may be a daily rhythm, that is, they work alone from 7 in the… |
Sequence 17Q: How do we make what we have to offer as teachers or as parents valued? As Montessori teachers or as Montessorians, how do… |
Sequence 12Let me now tum to the last part of my morning lecture: the cultural ramifications of this economic Renaissance. Farmers were… |
Sequence 15What happened to it, then? Classical Greek culture of the city- state exists from about 700 to 300 BC, and then it starts to… |
Sequence 5The adolescent is a social embryo, so your prepared environ• ment must be what society is all about, in the context of the… |
Sequence 21Anyone planning to involve children in a community participation project should be prepared to answer such questions as… |
Sequence 11the plungers. Recreating this experiment in a simple form helps bring the story to life ina way that just hearing it can'… |
Sequence 1MARIA MONTESSORI: A LEARNER TAUGHT BY CHILDREN by Robert G. Buckenmeyer In 1915, Maria Montessori traveled to San Francisco… |
Sequence 9millions of years ago, the first animals to do so. Earthworms have this great little grinding gizzard and very strong muscles… |
Sequence 6Listening to poetry is art unto itself. Like listening to jazz or opera, it involves both a disciplined listening and a deep… |
Sequence 5Though the discovery of cosmic and terrestrial evolution has involved humans from a diversity of cultural backgrounds and can… |
Sequence 5It was Maria Montessori' s insight that the child had within an "inner teacher" that dictated a &… |
Sequence 3First a little political and geographical orientation: Romania is an Eastern European country. It is surrounded by the Black… |
Sequence 176First a little political and geographical orientation: Romania is an Eastern European country. It is surrounded by the Black… |
Sequence 208It was Maria Montessori' s insight that the child had within an "inner teacher" that dictated a &… |
Sequence 5record of the life of the child in societies without writing. But we know that some must have grown to maturity; otherwise we… |
Sequence 17But as well as this material territory to be exposed to the child, with the ways in which man has come into contact with other… |
Sequence 5revealed to the recipient in spite of his having taken the precaution, before eating, to hide the accompanying letter under a… |
Sequence 5Near the end of the war I leaned toward the Japanese side. And when the war ended I was sad. I was sad and relieved. I was… |
Sequence 11written material, discussion, and a variety of field experi- ences. Each student will: • Read Travels with Charley, by John… |
Sequence 24Joosten: The seventh leg is someone who really wants to do it. But it's not enough to want to. That is where we have to… |
Sequence 20all contributed to a spirit of reevalua tion and reform in education that began in the last decades of the nineteenth century… |
Sequence 8Marchetti, Maria Teresa. "La scuola per gli adolescenti- IJI." Vita del/'lnfanzia 2.3 (1953) 7+.… |
Sequence 4started to have threshing floors, presses, small little agricultural production centers right on their farms or shared by a… |
Sequence 8In the Hellenistic period we will see farms of 5,000, 10,000, 15,000- the largest I know of was over 70,000 acres in Egypt.… |
Sequence 8Time Periods Social Organization Ideas About Social Life HUMANmES: I Befort Hi<!My Tht Ar.and NlAt Em The l:arth… |
Sequence 8that assessed the ability to discriminate various tastes, smells, sounds, and textures, the study found that these individuals… |
Sequence 14ways, such as very young girls in Seville and in Egypt who can do the flamenco or belly-dance) amaze us by their motor… |
Sequence 9holistic, or even naturalistic values that fly in the face of disciplinary thinking. Science, geography, history, and other… |
Sequence 34foJlowed by the genius. His characteristics are absorbed attention, a profound concentration which isolates him from all the… |
Sequence 8this point of view will any one of these systems (no matter how complicated) be seen as an area that is not without link to… |
Sequence 9And now let me tell you about some of these hieroglyphs. The symbol for "one" is a finger, a part of the… |
Sequence 10things was able to arouse in the man who lived five thousand years ago (and who had no experience of mon- etary depredation)… |
Sequence 8invisible causes of a mysterious kind of communication, that nonetheless transport the actual voice of Man and the thoughts… |
Sequence 16invisible causes of a mysterious kind of communication, that nonetheless transport the actual voice of Man and the thoughts… |
Sequence 178things was able to arouse in the man who lived five thousand years ago (and who had no experience of mon- etary depredation)… |
Sequence 179And now let me tell you about some of these hieroglyphs. The symbol for "one" is a finger, a part of the… |
Sequence 180this point of view will any one of these systems (no matter how complicated) be seen as an area that is not without link to… |
Sequence 5Because of our human tendency to perfection, we adults struggle to find the perfect solution, the perfect time, the perfect… |
Sequence 19With their boundless energy they questioned, explored and experimented in all areas of culture. The small botani- cal garden… |
Sequence 19subplanes of parent-infant class, infant, and toddler (ages birth to three), preschool (ages three to six); lower elementary… |
Sequence 13Sometimes very tiny children show a precocious skill and accuracy of movement that must arouse our wonder. If an environment… |
Sequence 10The specifics, however, depend greatly on the values of the child's parents and society. If a family and culture,… |
Sequence 45Old Kingdom, 2600 BC (Nos. 10182, 10222, the British Museum) a certain wealthy individual, Tuauf, in his Teachings, an… |
Sequence 47The time in the past is gone when Rome and Greece were mixed with the memories, sometimes justly unsympathetic memories, of… |
Sequence 51Latin or Greek, a sort of formal stream-of-consciousness prose with little punctuation-in written manuscript form, not even… |
Sequence 14Here's the kick ending. "To ensure moral salvation, it is primariJ y necessary to depend on oneself, because in… |
Sequence 5This is why an integration of the special needs child in a class of normal children is possible. Montessori tells us that It… |
Sequence 11practice tl1e skills site was /eami11g, and to 111ake a real co11trib11tio11 to her co11111111nity me111bers. Iliad allowed… |
Sequence 9These words are simple and deep, but clear enough for an older elementary child to grasp. Other areas of creative endeavor in… |
Sequence 16'Tm walking down the city street with my friends on this going out. I see a homeless person over there. He looks hungry… |
Sequence 4plines. We need to con- centrate on the per- sonal story as it relates to the adolescent, by including subjective The plan… |
Sequence 5I think the best example is language. Yes, as Judi mentioned, children can become bilingual or trilingual, but there is a… |
Sequence 6John Dewey, the American philosopher, has a very interesting idea. He says, if you want to know what is going on, one way to… |
Sequence 141 understand in the U.S. a lot more than elsewhere. A late discov- ery is that children's attention span is getting… |
Sequence 4to keep track of all these scrolls. Each book might have multiple scrolls, and they all had to be numbered and organized.… |
Sequence 8setting, bringing a thousand winters and summers over the land and waters .... Fate left a deathless three-headed dog to… |
Sequence 22Pro1101111s Adverbs Co11ju11ctio11s Sepnrnte se11te11ces to trnnslnte: Latin to English; English to Latin N11111bers:… |
Sequence 24head slightly titled. Some scientists now believe that Alexander suffered from a disorder called ocular torticollis. It may… |
Sequence 26studying Alexander's symptoms think he may have had malaria or even West Nile virus. Figure 14 represents some of the… |
Sequence 11Now, if we solve for II and v in terms of p, then we know what y is.* Let us now solve this system of equations. Solve (1)… |