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Sequence 6In our household, each member of the family had certain responsibilities. We were each a part of the establishment. Our work… |
Sequence 2is through our children. Peace through education in an environment that allows for mixed human experiences, facilitates the… |
Sequence 440 nation's first attempt to involve parents in the education deci- sion-making process. • Preschool Parents… |
Sequence 1THE MAROTTA MONTESSORI SCHOOL: A CONCEPT DEDICATED TO URBAN RENEWAL by Alcillia Jones Clifford There is an urgent calling… |
Sequence 2• Elementary age: better scholastic placement, improved achievement • Adolescent age: lower rate of delinquency, higher rate… |
Sequence 9variation in teacher backgrounds and interpretation of curriculum principles. Another problem is the dearth oflongitudinal… |
Sequence 21'Aquinas, T. $1<1111110 Theologica. Thinl Part (Suppl.) Q. 4!l, a.:{. Reprinted in Ci,il<l a11d Frrmily. 16… |
Sequence 9stresses the same idea in her writing: "the child must learn by his own individual activity, being given a mental… |
Sequence 2the use of video-taped observations. She also depended on the random- ness of the assignment of the children to compensate for… |
Sequence 6Montessori and the Humanities means a clarification of goals. We have a saying in Montessori - "Montessori is an aid… |
Sequence 7rational behaviorist thought that the small child could hide within him "spiritual germs" or "… |
Sequence 1Montessori: The Humanities Connection Mythos, Logos, and the Generalist Ideal by David Kahn Montessori education may be a… |
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 8- the syntax or predictable structure of the language. For example, at the simplest level beyond pictures and labels, a book… |
Sequence 912. Wilson, Edward 0. Biaphilia (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984). 13. Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker: Why… |
Sequence 2surrounding Geauga County indicate that affordable, convenient, qual- ity day care is a critical concern for area parents… |
Sequence 5the facility by different personnel which always adds stress to any program. (Good teachers, especially Montessorians, do not… |
Sequence 1APPENDIX I HERSHEY MONTESSORI ERDKINDER PROJECT A Preliminary Proposal by Michael Bagiackas Hershey Montessori School has… |
Sequence 3implementation of the Montessori model but will provide a wealth of more general information about children's school… |
Sequence 2HERSHEY MONTESSORI SCHOOL'S OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT by Pat Doyle Proctor Hershey Montessori School is located in a semi-… |
Sequence 1Suddenly We Have a Nursery (Upper Elemetltary) by Michael Bagiackas An unexpected gift of 50 three-year-old plants just… |
Sequence 36Goody, J. (1977). The domestica1ion of the savage mind. New York: Cambridge University Press. Goody, J. ( I 987). The… |
Sequence 37Levi-Strauss, C. (1966). The savage mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Levi-Strauss, C. ( 1969). The raw and the… |
Sequence 3Unique Opportunity The Laufenburg Ranch, under the ownership of the Sonoma Land Trust, is unique in offering rich… |
Sequence 23Hopkins, W.G. and Brown, M.C. 0984). Development of Nerve Cells and their Connections. Cambridge: Cambridge Univer- sity… |
Sequence 14the teachers do not already know tJ1e answer. Even when tJ1e form of the question seems to invite a variety of answers, tJ1ere… |
Sequence 6unafraid to take bold initiatives with new partners so that all of America's children would be part of the success story… |
Sequence 4and writing. Teachers have written about their experiences, anecdotaJly and informally, through diaries, logs, and narratives… |
Sequence 5Where are they located? One school is in Canada, one in Mexico, and 31 in the United States. Nine schools are east of the… |
Sequence 20fail to instill in developing minds the fundamental skills of attention and reasoning. Increasing numbers of children today… |
Sequence 134fail to instill in developing minds the fundamental skills of attention and reasoning. Increasing numbers of children today… |
Sequence 1UNIFYING THE URBAN CONTRIBUTION: MOVING TOWARD ERDKINDER by David Kahn This article suggests that the Erdkinder is a… |
Sequence 17REFERENCES Abram, D. (1996). The spell of the sensuous. New York: Pan- theon Books. Coles, R. (1990). The spiritual life of… |
Sequence 35Egan, K. (1987). Literacy and the oral foundations of educa- tion. Harvard Educational Review, 57, 445-472. Egan, K. (1989).… |
Sequence 1PUBLIC MONTESSORI AND STATE-MANDATED ASSESSMENT by Keith Boehme and Elizabeth Wymer Keith Boehme and Elizabeth Wymer make… |
Sequence 34similarly ineffective because it gets nowhere near where the trouble is. It's a one-size-fits-all solution. Many of us… |
Sequence 2ERDKINDER UNDER CONSTRUCTION: WHAT THE FARM SCHOOLS SHOWED Us by David Kahn Mr. Kahn is directing a project to start a farm… |
Sequence 25Orr, D. W. Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World. Albany: SUNY, 1992. Piaget,J. TheGtild… |
Sequence 4Six-year-old girls dressed in white aprons and scarves are making no-bake cookies in the public kindergarten class of… |
Sequence 15Lepper, M.R. "Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation in Chil- dren: Detrimental Effects of Superfluous Social Con- trols… |
Sequence 12Lepper, M.R. "Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation in Chil- dren: Detrimental Effects of Superfluous Social Con- trols… |
Sequence 175Six-year-old girls dressed in white aprons and scarves are making no-bake cookies in the public kindergarten class of… |
Sequence 28Language and the Bra.in. New York: Norton, 1997. Donald, Merlin. Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of… |
Sequence 19Becker, Wesley C. "Consequences of Different Kinds of Parental Discipline." Review of Child Development Re… |
Sequence 21Kohn, Alfie. No Contest: The Case Against Competition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. Landes, William M., & Richard… |
Sequence 23Zahn-Waxler, Carolyn. "Conclusions: Lessons from the Past and a Look to the Future." Altruism and Aggression… |
Sequence 16modate this massive synapse formation, neurons must vastly expand their dendritic surfaces. As much as eighty-three percent… |
Sequence 3then be false to any man." Shakespeare, that great player with words- and what a testimony that is to the spirit and… |
Sequence 15THE PEDAGOGY OF PLACE by Pat Ludick Pedagogy of Place as presented in Pat Lu dick's article looks at pedagogy of place… |
Sequence 3THE FARM EXPERIENCE: ITS IMPORTANCE IN A CHILD' s LIFE by Richard Barker Richard Barker's pioneering work in… |
Sequence 11not whether the schools were better or worse after the changes, but that there was a deeply felt need for reform based on the… |
Sequence 5requirements of head and hand. Montessori actually says that the methods should allow the student to alternate his or her… |
Sequence 16GEOMETRY AND ERDKINDER by Nathaniel J. McDonald Nate MacDonald's chronicle of his first year of teaching geometry at the… |
Sequence 13Kaplan, M., & E. Singer. "Dogmatism and Sensory Alien- ation: An Empirical Investigation." Journal… |
Sequence 1PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, AND EDUCATIONAL GOALS FOR THE MONTESSORI ADOLESCENT, AGES TWELVE TO FIFTEEN by David Kahn This… |
Sequence 22Similar efforts are underway in higher education, pioneered by an organization called Second Nature, located in Boston, which… |
Sequence 35Q. Is there grant and foundation money toward green schools, green buildings? A. Yes, there is grant money. You should… |
Sequence 11And in a lecture given at Cambridge, Montessori says that "Cul- ture becomes identifiable with the construction of… |
Sequence 110And in a lecture given at Cambridge, Montessori says that "Cul- ture becomes identifiable with the construction of… |
Sequence 2TIMELESS DEDICATION: MONTESSORI FROM THE DEPTH OF THE SOUL by J oen Bettmann Joen Bettman.n 's touching article… |
Sequence 6based on the same objectives as found on the proficiency tests, and each school was evaluated in a number of areas, including… |
Sequence 1027. It reduced thinking skills from broad-patterned to domain- specific thinking. 28. It placed our school in a… |
Sequence 11The standards-based model is characterized by standards and consequent curriculum developed by committees overseen by state… |
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 16REFERENCES Brazelton, T. Berry, & Stanley I. Greenspan. The Irreducible Needs of Children: What Every Child Must Have… |
Sequence 16Action. Ed. K.H. Pribram. Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1969. Gesell, Arnold, Frances L. Ilg, Janet L. Rodell, et al.… |
Sequence 24standing of the essentials of a discipline, and the generalist, who needs to build an overview of all the disciplines in their… |
Sequence 3I would like to present two examples of Little Communities as prepared environments: Colegio Montessori de Tepoztlan in Mexico… |
Sequence 2THE MONTESSORI HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE STUDY OF NATURE AND SOCIETY A PROPOSAL by David Kahn David Kahn presents a high school… |
Sequence 4In October, 2005, NAMT A sponsored the third international Ado- lescent Colloquium, a gathering of eminent Montessori… |
Sequence 5Local Demand for a Montessori High School Model Cleveland (northeast Ohio) is the second oldest Montessori hub in the United… |
Sequence 16• Joint funds development (administrative) · Carpentry assistance 4. The Little Italy Neighborhood The Little Italy… |
Sequence 17High School Responsibilities: • Creating a newsletter of urban-rural natural history for high school students in northeast… |
Sequence 11the cover of two densely vegetated areas on the margins of the playground. When they were not nestled beneath birches,… |
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 1MONTESSORI: CHILDREN, NATURE, AND GROWING UP GREEN PREFACE TO "NATURE AND EMBODIED EDUCATION" BY KEVIN… |
Sequence 14the structure itself should function for contemporary children as an essential part of the prepared Montessori environment.… |
Sequence 38Montessori, Maria. The Secret oJC!,i/dlwod. 1936. Trans. M. Joseph Costelloe. New York: Ballantine, 1966. Montessori, Maria.… |
Sequence 14Foreign Language Program." Foreign Lnngunge A1111nls 25 (1992): 129-136. Shrum,J.L., & E.W. Glisan. Teacher… |
Sequence 180Welcome to the Children's Mural This portion of the exhibit was created from over 800 pieces of work submitted by 35… |
Sequence 22Now this didn't all happen in one year. This project became ongoing in this class. Each year the children new to the… |
Sequence 16"What Is a Social Entrepreneur?" Ashoka. July 29, 2005 <http://ashoka.org/social_entrepreneur>… |
Sequence 3miles east of Atlanta, with no prospect of becoming rural. In fact, the tension has come from the fact that we have no desire… |
Sequence 14book on the current financial crisis, The World ls Curved by David Smick, and [ highly recommend it to you. As we eventually… |
Sequence 17REFERENCES Barrack, A. C." A Journey of Love: The Influence of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology on Parent-Child… |
Sequence 11Horner, Jack. "The Extraordinary Characteristics of Dys- lexia." Perspccti,•es 011 Ln11g11nge n11d Literacy… |
Sequence 1AN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS FOR VISION BY CONSENSUS USING WHOLE SYSTEMS THEORY by Kathy Minardi Kathy Minardi suggests a… |
Sequence 182007. Dec. 2010 <http:/ /www.aap.org/pressroom/ playfinal.pdf>. Jenkinson, Sally. Tlte Genius of Piny:… |
Sequence 6world of our ancestors. In an increasing global world, we must be continually aware that we share our planet and its natural… |
Sequence 2176 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 38, No. 1 • Winter 2013 Although not every adolescent is dysfunctional, rebel- lious, or… |
Sequence 3177 Ewert-Krocker • The Adolescent: Taking on the Task of Humanity the healing and restorative aspects of nature tomor- row… |
Sequence 4178 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 38, No. 1 • Winter 2013 Once outside, they are usually happy to be there and may choose to find… |
Sequence 7181 Ewert-Krocker • The Adolescent: Taking on the Task of Humanity Laurie Ewert-Krocker was the founding head teacher of… |
Sequence 10210 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 38, No. 1 • Winter 2013 have developed better technologies. The impli- cations for all this—… |
Sequence 12290 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 38, No. 1 • Winter 2013 nurtured through a dramatic passage from one realm of existence to… |
Sequence 12290 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 38, No. 1 • Winter 2013 nurtured through a dramatic passage from one realm of existence to… |
Sequence 35205 Awes • Supporting the Dyslexic Child in the Montessori Environment 39. Diana Hanbury King, “A Condition Rightly Named:… |
Sequence 21271 Schonleber • Hawaiian Indigenous Education Tharp, R. G., & Gallimore, R. (1988). Rousing minds to life: Teaching… |
Sequence 20110 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 40, No. 2 • Spring 2015 Leonard, G. “An Interview with Thomas Berry.” The NAMTA Journal 16.3 (… |
Sequence 3535 Wolf • Chapter Three: A Child’s Tale 33. Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings. Volume 1 (Cambridge,MA: Harvard University… |