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Sequence 1CINCINNATI: DEVELOPING THE MONTESSORI MAGNET SCHOOL by Phyllis J. Williams Building and Grounds Crew North Avondale… |
Sequence 5computer training for the staff, makes available its plush conference room which is fully equipped for small workshops, and… |
Sequence 5mathematical achievement on the Standard school tests. Kimmins asked that he be allowed to administer a series of individual… |
Sequence 12Comer, J. Home-School Relationships as They Affect the Academic Success of Children. Educn/io11 a11d U1·bnn Society, 16, 1984… |
Sequence 21'Aquinas, T. $1<1111110 Theologica. Thinl Part (Suppl.) Q. 4!l, a.:{. Reprinted in Ci,il<l a11d Frrmily. 16… |
Sequence 2Pwn7>kin Moonshine. Tudor, Tasha. Henry Z. Walck, David McKay, New York, 1938. Scmu, 's Favo1·ite Story. Aoki,… |
Sequence 5A Variety of Interesting Readers for Primary and Early Elementary I Can Read Se1'ies: Harper & Row, New York.… |
Sequence 3touching remembrance of a visit to Hiroshima. She spoke of her own dedication to peace and education and managed to dig a hole… |
Sequence 4bedside table was a prayer book, and a new book by Luciano Mazzetti (speaking at the Summer Washington Conference) and a note… |
Sequence 1studies hypothesized increased perceptual motor ability or eye hand coordination from the sensorial materials when the direct… |
Sequence 4CHAPTER3 LONGITUDINAL STUDIES Introduction Several researchers attempted longitudinal studies of children who had… |
Sequence 5Earlier research had shown that economically disadvantaged children came to school lacking readiness to learn and profit from… |
Sequence 9~----------------------------- ~- -- sentences on a subtest of the Wechsler Preschool Intelligence Scale (WIPPSI); and to… |
Sequence 10Montessori. This confounds the results and perhaps explains why Banta found only slight differences between the Montessori and… |
Sequence 13records on absenteeism, teacher comments, and referral for special services information. However, she had to suspend this… |
Sequence 19groups on curiosity but less aggressive regardless of the kindergarten program. On Arithmeti,c, the Montessori group was… |
Sequence 1beginning and end of the kindergarten program than those without this experience. However, on all measures there were no… |
Sequence 5function of the child with regard to the formation of the human personal- ity (p. 15). Oui· civilization has not yet devised… |
Sequence 119. Ehrlich, Paul R. The Mcu;kin.ery of Nature: The Living World Around Us - And How It Works (New York: Simon and Schuster,… |
Sequence 1MONTESSORI EDUCATION AND CHILDREN PLACED AT RISK OF SCHOOL FAILURE by Christopher Harris Mr. Harris' short but… |
Sequence 912. Wilson, Edward 0. Biaphilia (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984). 13. Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker: Why… |
Sequence 7satisfying relationships and of passing on that ability to their children. But in unstable homes, where parents, often single… |
Sequence 1IMPLEMENTING MO~RI IN THE URBAN SECTOR by Sandra J. Sommer Sandra Sommer, an energeti.c school principal demonstrates what… |
Sequence 2I. Strong parent support for a Montessori program 2. Motivation by the Board of Education to implement a Montessori program… |
Sequence 12References Atwell, N. (ed.). (1989). Coming to know: Writing to I.earn in the intermediate grades. Ponsmouth, NH. Heinemann… |
Sequence 26References Goffstein, M.B. (1979). Natural history. New York. Farrar, Straus, Giroux. Goffstein, M.B. (I 984). A little… |
Sequence 21References Arnold, M. B. 0984). Memory and the Brain. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.… |
Sequence 23Hopkins, W.G. and Brown, M.C. 0984). Development of Nerve Cells and their Connections. Cambridge: Cambridge Univer- sity… |
Sequence 10creation of a public space; Dewey talked consistently about an "articulate public" bringing a public sphere… |
Sequence 9References Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development (1989). Tuming points: Preparing American youth for the twenty-first… |
Sequence 4and writing. Teachers have written about their experiences, anecdotaJly and informally, through diaries, logs, and narratives… |
Sequence 16Ardini, R. 0979). Feminism and science. In R. Arditti, P. Brennan, & S. Cavrak (Eds.), Science and liberation. Boston… |
Sequence 17Miller, J. B. 0 976). Toward a new psychology of women. Boston: Beacon. Montagu, A. (1986, August 7). Qtd. in Woodstock Times… |
Sequence 1F~----------------- MONTESSORI AND LEARNING DISABIUTIES by Sylvia 0. Richardson American education is currently under attack… |
Sequence 61lis), Montessori on the Lake (Lake Forest, CA), Meadow Montessori School (Monroe, lvll), Mercy Montessori Center (Cincinnati… |
Sequence 12References Boehm, W. (1973). The actuality of the Montessori method in the light of modern preschool education. Around the… |
Sequence 20Haberman, M. (1991). The pedagogy of poverty versus good teaching. Phi Delta K.appan, 73(4). Hannaford, I. (1994, Spring).… |
Sequence 156References Boehm, W. (1973). The actuality of the Montessori method in the light of modern preschool education. Around the… |
Sequence 9community level where solutions need to be found for the more appro- priate management of the landscape. By beginning with… |
Sequence 8opmentof which is theimportantthing. The chapter of Frames of Mind (Gardner 1983 / 1993) that gets overlooked is the… |
Sequence 15games were once part of natural play, and there is nothing to replace their contribution to neurological organization for the… |
Sequence 1WHAT IT MEANS TO FOLLOW THE CHILD by Martha McDermott Martha McDermott makes an evocative plea for accepting children where… |
Sequence 7independence in the child's life. Dr. Sears states, "Independence is not, in itself, one of our most important… |
Sequence 2MONTESSORI TODAY: A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO EDUCATION FROM BIRTH TO ADULTHOOD, BY p AULA POLK LILLARD by David Kahn… |
Sequence 17REFERENCES Abram, D. (1996). The spell of the sensuous. New York: Pan- theon Books. Coles, R. (1990). The spiritual life of… |
Sequence 58Kohn, A. (1992) No contest: The case against competition (Rev. ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Kohn, A. (1993). Punished by… |
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 10of the institution is the development of values, self-knowledge, harmonious relations, and a balance between the needs of the… |
Sequence 24Hart, R., & L. Chawla. The Development of Children's Concern for the Environment. Zeitschrift fur Umelweltpolitik… |
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 19REFERENCES Anderson, Walter Truett. Reality Isn't What It Used to Be: Theatrical Politics, Ready-to-Wear Religion,… |
Sequence 25Montessori, Maria. The Absorbent Mind. 1949. Madras, India: Kalakshetra, 1992. Montessori, Maria. The Child in the Family.… |
Sequence 99Montessori, Maria. The Absorbent Mind. 1949. Madras, India: Kalakshetra, 1992. Montessori, Maria. The Child in the Family.… |
Sequence 194REFERENCES Anderson, Walter Truett. Reality Isn't What It Used to Be: Theatrical Politics, Ready-to-Wear Religion,… |
Sequence 19[Interview with Donald Brownlee]. [Minneapolis] Star Tribune February 5, 2000. Jaynes, Julian. The Origin of Consciousness in… |
Sequence 28Language and the Bra.in. New York: Norton, 1997. Donald, Merlin. Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of… |
Sequence 29CELEBRATING WRITING: PUBLISHING STUDENT WORK Celebrating student work by publishing it is one of the most exciting… |
Sequence 19you are not good at waiting. How can you be? We are, in Europe, suffering from the defects of old age, and that is why we… |
Sequence 8• Different kinds of figures · Parts of a circle • Circumference: derivation of pi • Area of a circle • Equivalence • Area… |
Sequence 1brings wholeness rather than fragmentation to one's life and requires the courage to use life-affirming principles to… |
Sequence 6The fundamental disagreement between attachment parenting and Montessori philosophy lies in the definition and importance of… |
Sequence 19Hoffman, E. Visions of Innocence. Boston: Shambhala Pub- lications, 1992. Huchingson, J. E. (Ed.) Religion and the Natural… |
Sequence 8When I was considering splitting the class into two classes, I also ran into the issue of what materials would need to be… |
Sequence 22Similar efforts are underway in higher education, pioneered by an organization called Second Nature, located in Boston, which… |
Sequence 11"This," she said, "is our hope-a hope in a new humanity that will come from this new education, an… |
Sequence 3the training of Montessori teachers: in Europe (Bergamo, Dublin, London, Paris, Perugia, Rome); in Asia (Bombay, Colombo,… |
Sequence 6The montage that Mario Montessori fashioned is made up of three elements: two Italian banknotes bearing respectively the… |
Sequence 9The very same Lusitania, on a similar return voyage from North America only sixteen months later (May 7th, 1915), would be… |
Sequence 15The very same Lusitania, on a similar return voyage from North America only sixteen months later (May 7th, 1915), would be… |
Sequence 18The montage that Mario Montessori fashioned is made up of three elements: two Italian banknotes bearing respectively the… |
Sequence 45the training of Montessori teachers: in Europe (Bergamo, Dublin, London, Paris, Perugia, Rome); in Asia (Bombay, Colombo,… |
Sequence 18have their roots from different countries, from different peoples-I mean, there in America you should have an enormous number… |
Sequence 13presented with items of knowledge because we think they have to understand it and to learn it. (77) For over ten years in our… |
Sequence 26Th is observation experiment, although traumatic for some, opens the door to self-observation and discovery. It allows us to… |
Sequence 27Friel, John C., & Linda D. Friel. Tile Seven Worst Things (Good) Parents Do. Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Commu-… |
Sequence 28Montessori, Maria. The Discovery of the Child. 1948. Trans. M. Joseph Costelloe. New York: Ballantine, 1967. Montessori,… |
Sequence 15We must be quick because our species, homo sapiens, having at- tained a certain level of intelligence, is now, in the words of… |
Sequence 8else in there that helps them process musical information, and some- thing else that can do mathematical operations, and these… |
Sequence 10Gestalt Adolescent Psychology Pavlov Nature vs. Nurture Skinner Operant Conditioning Dewey Open School Erickson Eight… |
Sequence 20Our poor earth can't keep up with the busyness of our heads any more than we can keep up with each other and that is why… |
Sequence 16What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, or why we… |
Sequence 19REFERENCES Baylor, Byrd. The Way to Start a Day.1977. New York: Simon & Schuster-Aladdin, 1998. Coles, Robert.… |
Sequence 13* * * So if this is part of the human predicament-the idea that we are given this urge to continually refine, to make things… |
Sequence 32paper and pen to record his thoughts and sketch his passionate observations of the Sierra Mountains. The process of writing… |
Sequence 37extent and use it in our dealings with children. For the children are the inheritors and passers-on of culture. They are… |
Sequence 17Chawla, Louise. "Life Paths into Effective Environmental Action." Jo11rnn/ of E11viro11111e11tnl Ed11cntio11… |
Sequence 1A MONTESSORI APPROACH TO LEARNING ANOTHER LANGUAGE by Diane Ceo-Difrancesco Or. Ceo-Di Francesco puts tlte Montessori method… |
Sequence 12ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This article is based on work accomplished with Montessori middle school teacher seminars. Many thanks to… |
Sequence 14Foreign Language Program." Foreign Lnngunge A1111nls 25 (1992): 129-136. Shrum,J.L., & E.W. Glisan. Teacher… |
Sequence 18America Welcomes Dottoressa Montessori Elementary class, The Washington Montessori School, Washington D.C., around I 9 I 6 18… |
Sequence 71Esenin, Segey. Tl,e Heritage of R11ssia11 Verse. Ed. D. Obolensky. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1962. £very111a11. Medieval Drama… |
Sequence 15REFERENCES "Ashoka Questions and Answers." Ashoka. July 29, 2005 <www.ashoka.org/ w hat_is /… |
Sequence 11artificially designed), but more expansive than, the Casadei Ba111bi11i of the earlier period. It meets Montessori's two… |
Sequence 161 would therefore initiate teachers into the observation of the most simple forms of living things, with all those aids which… |
Sequence 17Fabre, J. Henri. Tlte Life of the Spider. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1915. Kahn, David. "The Kodaikanal Experience-Part… |
Sequence 19Kohn,Alfie. Scl,ools 011r C/1ildre11 Deserve.Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Kranowitz, Carol Stock, & Lucy Jane… |
Sequence 12Goertz, Donna. Childre11 Who Are Not Yet Peaceful: Prevent- ing Excl11sio11 i11 the Early Ele111e11tary Classroom. Berkeley:… |
Sequence 14Rexford Brown 2 described the skj[[ set necessary for a systemic understanding of the global problems of our time: • Looking… |
Sequence 15Atkins, Peter W. The Periodic Ki11gdo111. New York: Basic Books, 1995. Ball, Philip. The l11gredie11ts: A Guided Tour of the… |
Sequence 20CONCLUSION Fundamental to the Montessori approach to learning are the three respects-respect for self, respect for others (… |