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Sequence 210And the adult human, says Bronowski, in The Ascent of Man, is "a singular creature. He has a set of gifts that make… |
Sequence 228She "jumped off" into new territory without having a plan in place-and let her commitment to fighting for… |
Sequence 231In 1915, Dr. Montessori traveled to California to attend the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. She… |
Sequence 235This early discovery has continued to be a hallmark of the Montessori approach to child development. Dr. Montessori was… |
Sequence 6selected fifteen from those who were nominated, and we spent a week in Mexico, in Akumal, a small resort on the Caribbean… |
Sequence 12todo the activity to the point that you don't have to think about your skills anymore. There is an expression in… |
Sequence 5revealed to the recipient in spite of his having taken the precaution, before eating, to hide the accompanying letter under a… |
Sequence 3National Erdkinder Consortium, a clearing house for Erdkinder devel- opment founded by Gang. Three previously unpublished… |
Sequence 19critics. I think in this case the Right was right, that eventually our capitalist system would create so many goods and… |
Sequence 20What happened? What made this unique culture? I've argued, and I think I can make the argument very briefly this morning… |
Sequence 3In addition, diversified crops don't require the same soil and climatic conditions. With diversification, now farmers… |
Sequence 9you look at the long history of the West, that's the fight for the Western soul, and usually the period of the classical… |
Sequence 10start to see that Mexico developed in a way that did not completely embrace this Western paradigm. I can tell you that… |
Sequence 11was very well-meaning. But as soon as people got capital for them- selves, what did they do with it? Did they go out and buy… |
Sequence 12to follow an indigenous Aztec pattern of development. That's a very cruel thing to say, but it's absolutely true.… |
Sequence 13all of you as teachers should remember one thing: Your allegiance is not to make people feel good but it is to the truth.… |
Sequence 17And he said, "Well, you've got this Wal-Mart." Well, Wal-Mart in California-I suppose it's the… |
Sequence 18I said, "Yeah, democracy can be a terrible thing." He just stopped. He said, "What did you say?… |
Sequence 20balance is the profile of the agrarian: The agrarian alone understands that proper balance. We go back to the image of… |
Sequence 21and was put in jail and they confiscated his tractor-a big scandal in the southern San Joaquin Valley. About that same time in… |
Sequence 26even made some money on it. Then one May, right before we were going to pick it-it was absolutely beautiful-the whole orchard… |
Sequence 2is true that if a person blows a cylinder in a tractor right during harvest, someone will step forward. Farmers are the most… |
Sequence 3become a mechanic. They become less connected with the land. They use capital from off the farm to subsidize losses on the… |
Sequence 24progression of mathematical concepts from Algebra I to Algebra II to Trigonometry, culminating in Calculus. Mr. Miller also… |
Sequence 1THE DEVELOPMENT OF COORDINATED MOVEMENT by Silvana Quattrocchi Montanaro Dr. Montanaro discusses the stages of movement in… |
Sequence 1THE ASSISTANT TO INFANCY: A SPECIAL EDUCATOR by Silvana Quattrocchi Montanaro Dr. Montanaro introduces the origins of the… |
Sequence 11There are different ways to look at cosmic education and at the cosmic vision. One that Montessori talks about is how we… |
Sequence 14Figure 10. Figure 11. Figure 10 is done by a five- year-old child who never had the presentations of the cosmic cross, and… |
Sequence 19Hoffman, E. Visions of Innocence. Boston: Shambhala Pub- lications, 1992. Huchingson, J. E. (Ed.) Religion and the Natural… |
Sequence 11better. So if I had been looking at birds instead of baseball .. .I Jove basebalJ and I want to goto the Mariners game tonight… |
Sequence 17I'm the international coordinator of a project for UNESCO called Growing Up in Cities, which has produced many examples… |
Sequence 21development in ecodesign. In this second part I shall discuss the implications of all these ideas for education. I should tell… |
Sequence 30voted to choose a small shrimp called the California freshwater shrimp, which occurred in the creeks surrounding the school in… |
Sequence 1A MONTESSORI LIFE AS A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY-PART 1 by Silvana Quattrocchi Montanaro Dr. Montanaro speaks of how Montessori… |
Sequence 2Cavalletti and Gianna Gobbi jointly worked out a program that seemed to correspond to the needs of the various ages,… |
Sequence 4Of the many things that I have heard and read during the days following Gianna Gobbi's death, I particularly like what a… |
Sequence 5Of the many things that I have heard and read during the days following Gianna Gobbi's death, I particularly like what a… |
Sequence 7Cavalletti and Gianna Gobbi jointly worked out a program that seemed to correspond to the needs of the various ages,… |
Sequence 2f ROM ECOLOGICAL LITERACY TO ECOLOGICAL DESIGN INTELLIGENCE by David W. Orr In the next two articles, David Orr addresses… |
Sequence 15us, it was a good decision, too. Now we're differentiated, and our customers are even more loyal to us. When you talk… |
Sequence 6In Montessori's original Children's House, there were no toys for pretend play. Instead of dressing and undressing… |
Sequence 15taught by Spanish speakers and given to Spanish speakers in a Spanish-speaking country, so I decided I needed to learn Spanish… |
Sequence 14on a collective basis. The farm's profits, if any, are, for the most part, sown back into the students' next group… |
Sequence 4Participants experience clarity and social cohesion around the Erdkinder farm school experience, which is, in some cases,… |
Sequence 4premise: Socialization is central to who we are as human beings. It's the reason for our big brains. My second premise… |
Sequence 1THE HIGH SCHOOL, NOBLE CHARACTERISTICS, AND PEACE by Guadalupe Borbolla Guadalupe Borbolla's humanities outline goes… |
Sequence 2First and Second Dimensions The first and second dimensions aie subjects that encompass academic materials required in the… |
Sequence 3I would like to present two examples of Little Communities as prepared environments: Colegio Montessori de Tepoztlan in Mexico… |
Sequence 4that help protect the environment. Montessori understood young adolescents, their spiritual attraction, their keen humanistic… |
Sequence 4In October, 2005, NAMT A sponsored the third international Ado- lescent Colloquium, a gathering of eminent Montessori… |
Sequence 4is the spirit within us all. From this we get that the ulterior goal of education is to help the spirit within each individual… |
Sequence 15Montessori, Maria. The California Lectures of Maria Montessori, 1915: Collected Speeches and Writings. Ed. Robert G.… |
Sequence 15We tell many stories of the great and famous inventions and discoverers of history from Archimedes to the present, and other… |
Sequence 4of Mexico and California, today we are exploring new ways to refine our understanding of organisms and molecules at the micro… |
Sequence 7... the most difficult thing is to walk keeping one's equilib- rium balanced in the most difficult position, as, for in… |
Sequence 14Montessori, Maria. The Absorbent Mind. 1949. Trans. Claude Claremont. Thiruvanmiyur, Madras, India: Kalekshetra, 1959.… |
Sequence 17REFERENCES Carlyle, Thomas. 011 Heroes, Hero-Worship n11d the Heroic i11 History. 1865. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993.… |
Sequence 25there-and I didn't know it until I got there-were prospective par- ents. It was pretty difficult. They enjoyed it, but… |
Sequence 18Getti11g Things D011e • reacting to instructions Expressing Attitudes • expressing need Subject Content Language Arts •… |
Sequence 20Grammatical Structures • me gusta/n • te gusta/n - le gusta/n • tengo un/una ... • tengo/tiene _ anos. • esta/n +… |
Sequence 21• use rhythm instruments while singing traditional Mexican songs • use metric measurements to make polvorones • use… |
Sequence 7Special Acknowledgements There would be no exhibit without the generous contribution and leadership of Thomas Mueller,… |
Sequence 20From Nova Scotia to San Francisco J Seated for lunch in the glass-walled classroom, Palace of Education and Social Economy,… |
Sequence 127To balance requires great attention, New Zealand, 2006 Walking o balance beam, United States, 2000 Happily striding towards… |
Sequence 140Sowing the Seeds of the Sciences "The eye that sees and the hand that obeys:• South Africa, 2006 Dramar:ic… |
Sequence 143Studying the time/ine of life on earth, a geologicof.biological progression of animals, plants, and earth changes, Japan,… |
Sequence 148Montessori Farm Programs in Africa, Australia, and Mexico Shepherding pygmy goats, Telperion Farm School. serving ages 3-18… |
Sequence 149m l~1:.11i, ''I ll I l I i,, -,1, I I IHJ 111 J Playing the didgeridoo, Wadja Wadja High School, 2005… |
Sequence 156Peace and Education, continued Montessori in Latin America: From Argentina to Mexico, 1911 to 2007 Montessori schools had… |
Sequence 172Correspondence, continued - ...... .. ... //- -··- :;:~: ., -..:_ ::-:~··.:::~ -✓- .,; .,._,. 6 ..P… |
Sequence 179Photo Crediu, continued Elise Broun Barnett Collection Soro Brody Helen Brophy Kannekar Butt Coring for Young Refugees… |
Sequence 180Welcome to the Children's Mural This portion of the exhibit was created from over 800 pieces of work submitted by 35… |
Sequence 184Notes and Sources, continued What They Showed Us (Italy) The photos of the first Casa dei Bambini and the Casa in Milan are… |
Sequence 13trees, and all life that emanates from the natural world (Montessori, From C!tildhood to Adolescence 19). This inner… |
Sequence 6Only one year older (age sixteen), when adolescents at the Colegio Montessori de Tepoztlan (Cuernavaca, Mexico) were exposed… |
Sequence 2OPTIMISM AND HOPE IN A HOTTER TIME by David W. Orr Dr. Orr draws a sharp distinctio11 between opti111is111 and hope i11 the/… |
Sequence 8mission: "The next generation of leaders will come from this program. Soon they will be sitting here, and it will. be… |
Sequence 2COMMUNITY VISION OF THE SCHOOL by Maura C. Joyce Looking at Maria Mo11tessori's historical persona, Maura foyce focuses… |
Sequence 3success to their Montessori experience. Isn't that success enough? Who has the time and energy to take on more than that… |
Sequence 16the power of self-direction increasing by degrees in the sum these of successively repeated acts, are the stout little… |
Sequence 19FUNDING SPECIAL NEEDS PROGRAMS MAURA JOYCE Paula, Jacquie, and l all work at schools that we would call large in the… |
Sequence 20school. The fact that you serve a population under the age of five puts you into this very popular area of early childhood… |
Sequence 21Then we started the writing process. We needed to tell them in a language that they could understand, and I say this with all… |
Sequence 29PAULA: 1 would add that I've been in your shoes twelve years ago. Stay the course. It'll be OK. r would suggest a… |
Sequence 19REFERENCES Brnudel, Fernand. A History of Civilizntio11s. Trans. Richard Mayne. New York: Penguin, 1993. Bruner, Jerome S.… |
Sequence 2WHY IT Is IMPORTANT TO KNOW THE CHILD by Silvana Quattrocchi Montanaro Citi11g the words of Marin Montessori, Dr. Montanaro… |
Sequence 1CHILDREN'S EDUCATION AND THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY by Silvana Quattrocchi Montanaro This final chapter of Dr. Mo11tanaro… |
Sequence 12009 NAMTA BASELINE SPECIAL EDUCATION SURVEY analysis by Barbara Kahn Whnt does n survey of eighty-two Montessori schools… |
Sequence 2• 18% Midwest (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota,… |
Sequence 17Student Success Teams Handbook Santa Cruz Montessori School Meeting Time and Day: ________ _ Adap1cd from: Radius. M… |
Sequence 23if you ever watched the old Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons.) The Wayback Machine can take you to old sites. It's a Jot of… |
Sequence 25buried in Alexandria. Eventually the story moves into the Byzantine times, so you have the Emperor Justinian and Empress… |
Sequence 14Books Celebrntio11 of the U11folding of the Cosmos. San Francisco: Harper, 1992. Darwin, Charles. The Formation of Vegetable… |
Sequence 15Atkins, Peter W. The Periodic Ki11gdo111. New York: Basic Books, 1995. Ball, Philip. The l11gredie11ts: A Guided Tour of the… |
Sequence 20One time a student asked me, again, "OK, besides 11int/1 class, since you're a ma th teacher, when do you ever… |
Sequence 43Rota, Gian-Carlo, & Fabrizio Palombi. /11discrete Thoughts. Basel, Switzerland: Birkhauser, 2008. Steen, Lynn Arthur… |
Sequence 29THE PRAXIS PROJECT: AN INTEGRATION OF THE DISCIPLINES FOR HIGH SCHOOL by Andrew Christopherson The Praxis project is a cross… |
Sequence 25Again, thank you for coming to see us. At our Donor Party Friday night, one of our parents brought up the project in Bhutan.… |
Sequence 2CELEBRATING LIFE, NOT THEORIES by Sanford Jones Sa11ford Jones' article is a very perso11a/ essay (combined witlt a… |
Sequence 2INITIATION TO THE KNOWLEDGE THAT Is THE PRIDE OF OUR CIVILIZATION by Donald C. Goertz Don Goertz's nccount of his… |