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Sequence 195THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION: A MODEL FOR EDUCATIONAL CHANGE by Rexford Brown Dr. Brown first highlights the ways in which a… |
Sequence 197designed to meet new needs, it becomes increasingly isolated from its clients or customers. Broken into tiny subunits where… |
Sequence 254Supportive administration as well as primary and lower elementary staff. Small class size, beautiful cam- pus setting,… |
Sequence 225Q: How do we make what we have to offer as teachers or as parents valued? As Montessori teachers or as Montessorians, how do… |
Sequence 175The adolescent is a social embryo, so your prepared environ• ment must be what society is all about, in the context of the… |
Sequence 207Anyone planning to involve children in a community participation project should be prepared to answer such questions as… |
Sequence 249MARIA MONTESSORI: A LEARNER TAUGHT BY CHILDREN by Robert G. Buckenmeyer In 1915, Maria Montessori traveled to San Francisco… |
Sequence 47Listening to poetry is art unto itself. Like listening to jazz or opera, it involves both a disciplined listening and a deep… |
Sequence 110Though the discovery of cosmic and terrestrial evolution has involved humans from a diversity of cultural backgrounds and can… |
Sequence 39It was Maria Montessori' s insight that the child had within an "inner teacher" that dictated a &… |
Sequence 63Some of you may remember those early days of WM! when the course and office were at 3000 Connecticut Avenue,opposite the Zoo… |
Sequence 71First a little political and geographical orientation: Romania is an Eastern European country. It is surrounded by the Black… |
Sequence 201Documenting Montessori expansion in North America, NAMTA has suggested since 1992 that further program design needs to be… |
Sequence 114Near 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 153written material, discussion, and a variety of field experi- ences. Each student will: • Read Travels with Charley, by John… |
Sequence 239Joosten: 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 310all contributed to a spirit of reevalua tion and reform in education that began in the last decades of the nineteenth century… |
Sequence 331Marchetti, Maria Teresa. "La scuola per gli adolescenti- IJI." Vita del/'lnfanzia 2.3 (1953) 7+.… |
Sequence 531that assessed the ability to discriminate various tastes, smells, sounds, and textures, the study found that these individuals… |
Sequence 597Victor Davis Hanson is professor of Greek at California State University (Fresno) and lives on his family's farm in the… |
Sequence 218holistic, or even naturalistic values that fly in the face of disciplinary thinking. Science, geography, history, and other… |
Sequence 49foJlowed by the genius. His characteristics are absorbed attention, a profound concentration which isolates him from all the… |
Sequence 246invisible causes of a mysterious kind of communication, that nonetheless transport the actual voice of Man and the thoughts… |
Sequence 179Because of our human tendency to perfection, we adults struggle to find the perfect solution, the perfect time, the perfect… |
Sequence 205House and a Montessori elementary school were from the beginning and for many decades an explicit part of the educational… |
Sequence 217With their boundless energy they questioned, explored and experimented in all areas of culture. The small botani- cal garden… |
Sequence 428subplanes of parent-infant class, infant, and toddler (ages birth to three), preschool (ages three to six); lower elementary… |
Sequence 137We tell many stories of the great and famous inventions and discoverers of history from Archimedes to the present, and other… |
Sequence 15Sometimes very tiny children show a precocious skill and accuracy of movement that must arouse our wonder. If an environment… |
Sequence 98An Auspicious Beginning Small images from top to bottom: Dr. Montessori meeting children in Kotohena with the first… |
Sequence 99Lower and Upper Elementary Montessori school and in 1950 was reluctantly recognized by the newly independent government as… |
Sequence 128Movement and Silence, continued Children love silence and immobility and practice it spontaneously. One day [in Sevres,… |
Sequence 165Japanese sandpaper letters These letters are Hiragana characters, one of the three graphic systems in Japan. The other two… |
Sequence 76The specifics, however, depend greatly on the values of the child's parents and society. If a family and culture,… |
Sequence 180Latin or Greek, a sort of formal stream-of-consciousness prose with little punctuation-in written manuscript form, not even… |
Sequence 339Here's the kick ending. "To ensure moral salvation, it is primariJ y necessary to depend on oneself, because in… |
Sequence 10This is why an integration of the special needs child in a class of normal children is possible. Montessori tells us that It… |
Sequence 114practice tl1e skills site was /eami11g, and to 111ake a real co11trib11tio11 to her co11111111nity me111bers. Iliad allowed… |
Sequence 238of the best -;mall communitie.., in Amerirn. With threecolleges,amedi- cc1l commu111ty ..,er, ing NW Geor- gia, Rome isa… |
Sequence 94These words are simple and deep, but clear enough for an older elementary child to grasp. Other areas of creative endeavor in… |
Sequence 214plines. We need to con- centrate on the per- sonal story as it relates to the adolescent, by including subjective The plan… |
Sequence 66I think the best example is language. Yes, as Judi mentioned, children can become bilingual or trilingual, but there is a… |
Sequence 52John Dewey, the American philosopher, has a very interesting idea. He says, if you want to know what is going on, one way to… |
Sequence 59Teaching as much as possible is not to teach somebody but to teach the subject. This tendency is justified by educational… |
Sequence 601 understand in the U.S. a lot more than elsewhere. A late discov- ery is that children's attention span is getting… |
Sequence 164Now, 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)… |
Sequence 260The Aquinas Montessori School is seeking an AMI certified primary directress to lead one of three pri- mary classes at our… |
Sequence 123participation in actions meant to bring social justice to people in the classroom, in the community, all over the world. We… |
Sequence 158And this is all essential for reading. I know that reading has taken over in many schools as the most important subject-you… |
Sequence 266disparate writers, one the sixth century BC Greek philosopher Hera- clitus who said, "You can't step in the same… |
Sequence 182168 Par/ Tll'o - For a Science of 1he Formation of Man observations also concerned the relations between plants and… |
Sequence 341APPENDIX 1: COLONIAL AMERICA PROJECT DIRECTIONS, SPRING 2010 Colonial America Project As we are changing perspectives from an… |
Sequence 349our lead teachers have AMI diplomas and we plan on seeking AMI accreditation during the 2012-2013 school year. Email resume… |
Sequence 188 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 38, No. 1 • Winter 2013 “The race down the broad walk after a busy morning,” description by… |
Sequence 3121 Montessori • Nature in Education nature in education by Maria Montessori This piece of writing addresses the “boundless… |
Sequence 9484 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 38, No. 1 • Winter 2013 have to put them in these sand boxes? The American professor was telling… |
Sequence 9585 Kahn-Wikramaratne Interview • The Kodaikanal Experience students used to go away after the lecture; I would run up there… |
Sequence 9787 Kahn-Wikramaratne Interview • The Kodaikanal Experience WIKRAMARATNE: Yes. Kodaikanal was a place where English, American… |
Sequence 9989 Kahn-Wikramaratne Interview • The Kodaikanal Experience Watering, Bombay, India, 1940 let’s go for a ramble first and… |
Sequence 10090 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 38, No. 1 • Winter 2013 Lena Wikramaratne reminisces with Mario Montessori, Amsterdam, 1979 KAHN… |
Sequence 10191 Kahn-Wikramaratne Interview • The Kodaikanal Experience Miss Lena Wikramaratne (1909-1982) was a student and colleague of… |
Sequence 118108 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 38, No. 1 • Winter 2013 Incidentally, at this point we can understand that, unlike what many… |
Sequence 152142 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 38, No. 1 • Winter 2013 we can help the child see how each contributes an essential part in the… |
Sequence 168158 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 38, No. 1 • Winter 2013 critical first- and second-plane years? If the answer is yes, one can… |
Sequence 197187 Orr • Place and Pedagogy nurturing relationship with a place.5 Good inhab- itance is an art requiring detailed knowledge… |
Sequence 205195 Hutchison • Teaching Nature: From Philosophy to Practice aim is to help children go confidently into the real world,… |
Sequence 115 Joosten • Exercises of Practical Life: Introduction and List exercises of Practical life: introduction and list by A.M.… |
Sequence 7872 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 39, No. 3 • Summer 2014 tion. I was greeted with respect by the office staff and the Mitchell… |
Sequence 9791 O’Toole • Following the Child for Real folloWing The chilD for real by Jennifer O’Toole Jennifer O’Toole has an… |
Sequence 9892 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 39, No. 3 • Summer 2014 working for the abolition of slavery and the universal application of… |
Sequence 8781 Joosten • Helping the Child in the Conquest of the Written Language helping the Child in the Conquest of the Written… |
Sequence 207199 Joosten • Observations ObservaTiOns by A. M. Joosten Joosten begins his article by telling us that love and knowledge… |
Sequence 223215 Joosten • Errors and their Corrections errOrs and Their cOrrecTiOns by A. M. Joosten “Our primary concern is not that… |
Sequence 237229 Kripalani • Observation ObservaTiOn by Lakshmi A. Kripalani The adult who is inexperienced in the art of observation… |
Sequence 256250 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 42, No. 2 • Spring 2017 Child study is an old-fashioned term. Interestingly, it originated at… |
Sequence 9Glossary of Montessori Terms Any science has it own vocabulary and terminology and the Montessori method is no exception.… |
Sequence 52AMI Journal 2017 - 2018 page 51 references Bowles, S. & Gintis, H. Schooling in Capitalist America. New York: Basic… |
Sequence 60AMI Journal 2017 - 2018 page 59 Thus the primary quality of early development which sets it apart from later learning is “… |
Sequence 83The Formation of Mind: Language, Learning and Logic in Early Childhood page 82 prime example. Positron Emissions Tomography (… |
Sequence 102AMI Journal 2017 - 2018 page 101 only enjoy what she described as “the privilege and good fortune of becoming its assistants… |
Sequence 117A Science of Peace page 116 A Science of Peace introduction ‘To ask anyone to speak on peace would appear quite foreign to… |
Sequence 5956 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 any kind of symbol, from words to musical notes. Ada imagined the… |
Sequence 6057 Allen • Of Natural Science a gathering of the most illustrious figures in physics and chemistry. Marie Curie is the only… |
Sequence 1818 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 44, No. 2 • Spring 2021 Rooted in the word revolution is the word evolution. Evolution is… |
Sequence 3030 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 44, No. 2 • Spring 2021 Leadership: A Cornerstone Montessori School Cornerstone Montessori… |
Sequence 9898 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 44, No. 2 • Spring 2021 These words are simple and deep, but clear enough for an older elementary… |
Sequence 132132 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 44, No. 2 • Spring 2021 listen to the opinions of others and there is the silence of withdrawal… |
Sequence 167Kahn • NAMTA - AMI Legacy 167 szentmihalyi, and Maria Montessori integrated an important installation for deep devel-… |
Sequence 28Feature: Science Education and Scientific Education by A. M. Joosten We can, nowadays, hardly open a newspaper and read an… |
Sequence 6RECOMMENDATIONS: Over the past few years, in an attempt to share their independent curriculum development, Montessori… |
Sequence 5Editorial Report: Parents and Adults in the House of Children Unite Around the Child by AM. Joosten Mr. Joosten's… |
Sequence 21aquarium and a pair of rodents. Our goal should be to have in the class- room a representative of each of the vertebrate… |
Sequence 23Erdkinder: The Experiment for the Experiment The following is transcribed by Ann Freeman from tape recordings of a conversa-… |
Sequence 28Joosten: 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 5Editorial Report: On the Significance of Personality Substitution by Jon R. Osterkorn, ACSW, Ph.D. With literary allusion… |
Sequence 14Notes on the Prepared Environment by A.M. Joosten Mr. Joosten gives some very specific directives for Children s House… |
Sequence 33economies as well as that of Japan are now structural problems, with inflation as a permanent factor which simply cannot be… |
Sequence 21care situations. Is it a danger to prescribe a nursery school situation for unenlightened parents? What becomes of a child who… |
Sequence 49The Kodaikanal Experience - Chapter I Kahn-Wikramaratne Interview David Kahn: The KodaikanaJ experience was instrumental to… |
Sequence 50Kahn: This was the Dewey environment. Wikramaratne: Yes. One day, I made my fellow teachers furious. I challenged the idea of… |