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Sequence 161In a. very real sense the spiritual dimension permeated all of Montessori's work. I think that she never wrote a book… |
Sequence 165use real dishes and cloth towels rather than plastic and Styrofoam; we implement Cosmic Education in the elementary years; we… |
Sequence 182come the benchmark of quality education in Marin County and is highly regarded by Montessorians throughout the world. We… |
Sequence 210VILLE-MARIE MONTESSORI SCHOOL in Montreal, Canada is seeking creative and dedicated AMI primary and elementary teachers for… |
Sequence 94Whenever possible, music and poetry may be related to things children say. For example, once at the beginning of June, three… |
Sequence 166dergone extensive renovations and expansion. Our staff is solidly entrenched in the school. Most of them have been at… |
Sequence 28father, space pilot, dog, when one does not yet know what it means to be one's self? Again, as Montessori is based on… |
Sequence 29furnish examples of these. "Excuse me," said a child to a visitor commenting in a classroom that this was… |
Sequence 56THE CASADEI BAMBINI: A PERSONAL PILGRIMAGE by Marianne Moore Marianne Moore's eloquent characterization of the… |
Sequence 61essence of Montessori, who in a variety of ways contributed to make Montessori a dynamic force in education here and around… |
Sequence 62cooked supper for all seven of us. The others washed up so the cook could retreat to her album work. By the time we arrived,… |
Sequence 71First a little political and geographical orientation: Romania is an Eastern European country. It is surrounded by the Black… |
Sequence 75Marcel, the Romanian professor who got Children of the World interested in doing Montessori in Romania, was and still is… |
Sequence 176But the child "resists interference by the adult who thinks he can help him by his power. For this uncalled-for… |
Sequence 233when first announced. Even after accepting the theory, the scientific community of chemists still had to "beat nature… |
Sequence 79THE GENIUS OF MONTESSORI HISTORY by Larry Schaefer This keynote will focus on two things: Maria Montessori and her pedagogy… |
Sequence 93a dramatic and attention-grabbing sequence of headings and subhead- ings: Paleozoic Era, Mesozoic Era, ... Cambrian Period,… |
Sequence 13record of the life of the child in societies without writing. But we know that some must have grown to maturity; otherwise we… |
Sequence 42Montessori will never grow and develop as fully as it could until teachers are convinced that, because Montessori is to do… |
Sequence 55activities, so much the better. They could go off together to buy the ~vening paper, or walk the dog, etc. If children see… |
Sequence 76OPTIMAL DEVELOPMENTAL OUTCOMES FOR THE CHILD AGED Six TO TWELVE: SOCIAL, MORAL, COGNITIVE, AND EMOTIONAL DIMENSIONS by Kay… |
Sequence 201Documenting Montessori expansion in North America, NAMTA has suggested since 1992 that further program design needs to be… |
Sequence 74The crucial point of the whole question is the manner in which he considers the child, and this cannot depend on external… |
Sequence 106RUFFING MONTESSORI SCHOOL PEACE CURRICULUM: AN INFORMAL NARRATIVE by John Long John Lang's implementation of a peace… |
Sequence 110During the ride back from the hunger center, I reflected upon my encounter with poverty. When I arrived home my mother stood… |
Sequence 119Attention Grabber The Butter Battle Book, by Dr. Seuss (New York: Random House, 1984), was read to the students. Yes, middle… |
Sequence 206I repeat the same thing about money in order that the immorality and error bound up with it may be destroyed, and we must… |
Sequence 251Joosten: Some have disappeared and others have come in, etc. But whatever they use, whatever you see being used, will be a… |
Sequence 340exist in other cultures. We're not supposed to speak of Western chauvinism now, but I think that I can prove to you that… |
Sequence 341ence, and material overabundance. The nature of human nature being what it is, we would quickly, as Nietzsche said, sink into… |
Sequence 342critics. I think in this case the Right was right, that eventually our capitalist system would create so many goods and… |
Sequence 343What happened? What made this unique culture? I've argued, and I think I can make the argument very briefly this morning… |
Sequence 344The Greeks found out that this new diversi- tied scheme gave each farm family au- tonomy that could not be undermined by… |
Sequence 346In addition, diversified crops don't require the same soil and climatic conditions. With diversification, now farmers… |
Sequence 347started to have threshing floors, presses, small little agricultural production centers right on their farms or shared by a… |
Sequence 350We have that legacy of dynamism in the West, for good or for evil. The danger for a Western army is always another Western… |
Sequence 351In 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 381happen. But the reality is that probably a.ll of the schools in this room, or the majority of them, are in urban environments… |
Sequence 408HUMANITIES PROJECTS 2000-2001 Study of the Maya I. Study of Living Things II. Technology and the Building Up of Civilization… |
Sequence 436students be able to choose to study any period, any person, any technological achievement at any time? There are good reasons… |
Sequence 446In some ways, it started with our election study, when two people were invited to each represent the views of Gore and Bush on… |
Sequence 475THE PREPARED ENVIRONMENT by Laurie Ewert-Kroeker Using Robert Havighurst's Developmental Tasks of Normal Adoles- cence… |
Sequence 478So the position I am standing in right now is in many ways excruciatingly awkward-not only because the idea of emphasizing… |
Sequence 556Balancing Creativity and Service Although creativity and social service may seem dichotomous notions, it is the combination… |
Sequence 12What about paternity leave? How many companies in this country give paternity leave? A family is not just a mother and a baby… |
Sequence 73INDEPENDENCE OF THE YOUNG CHILD FROM BIRTH TO THREE by Judi Orion This article explores the idea of independence from a… |
Sequence 178a great whining place. You can just sit here and whine as long as you like." But when a toddler has learned to… |
Sequence 48cusp, children who were tougher, noisier, and more rational, dangling between the two planes of development-I looked at them… |
Sequence 112and their expanding intellect (97-109). The prepared environment of the Erdkinder includes a working farm, a "museum… |
Sequence 195Q. But she did. She said it. She said exactly what you said, that starting with the bacteria, each organism actually created… |
Sequence 224Results of the study will be released at the Adolescent National Retreat taking place in Cleveland July 28-August 1, 2003, as… |
Sequence 2383531 Somerset Drive Prairie Village, KS 66208 Or call: 913-649-6160 E-mail: highlawn@juno.com. Maryland Summer with… |
Sequence 261economics from the Technical University of Munich and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Erlangen-Nurenberg.… |
Sequence 144Don't get discouraged with a child. Re- member that the child that comes each morning is not the same as the one that… |
Sequence 189bonusoverfirstfouryears to encour- age faculty stability. Contact: Educational Director, Wendy Calise at 847-498-1105 Or… |
Sequence 21of childhood." We realized that everything we were learning con- trasted strongly with our traditional state training… |
Sequence 27Starting in the 1950s and continuing throughout the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s, AMI organized elementary study… |
Sequence 228reference but perhaps for an underlying need of absolute certainty and structure. Like early human beings, I am a hunter and… |
Sequence 53(Creating cohesion by stnlimenl with th~ads of developed WlLL) • individual • personal • parallel (by age 6 or 7) (… |
Sequence 131that he or she has the necessary capabilities to function, thrive, and contribute to the community? Can education "… |
Sequence 11Montessori speaks about to occur, we must take the next step. We must "give" this environment over to the… |
Sequence 194EDUCATEURS SANS FRONTIERES: LIVING OUT THE VISION by Charlene S. Trochta Charlene Trochta's review of her experience of… |
Sequence 196to forty years in the field; several were not long out of training. I looked forward to revisiting Montessori's legacy… |
Sequence 65THE RIGHT USE OF INTELLIGENCE IN THE MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM by Kay Baker Kay Baker carefully summarizes Montessori… |
Sequence 104The model of the school in Montessori education is also different. Rather than being modeled on the factory, a Montessori… |
Sequence 162CULTIVATING THE MONTESSORI SPIRIT THROUGH f AMILY LIFE by Gerard Leonard Looking back at his own childhood, Gerard Leonard… |
Sequence 174in every skill imaginable, sports team schedules for eight- and nine- year-olds that would put the best of us in the emergency… |
Sequence 234A diverse set of challenges faces the architect when trying to facilitate graciousness of movement for dozens, sometimes… |
Sequence 60and minute care as is given to the baby. ("Dr. Montessori's Third Lecture" 177) At adolescence we have… |
Sequence 103SCIENCE STUDY FOR THE ERDKINDER: PHILOSOPHICAL CONSIDERATIONS by David Ayer David Ayer's reexamination of the… |
Sequence 135ties in Montessori and Traditional School Environments." Tl,e Ele111e11tary School Jo11r11al 106.1 (2005, September… |
Sequence 143gram at which the students spent one day a week working on a small farm. Just when we finally admitted that we couldn't… |
Sequence 339THE MONTESSORI POTENTIAL AT THE GROVE SCHOOL by Gena Engelfried This short article presents a composite of the… |
Sequence 10MORE PARENT INVOLVEMENT: REFINING p ARENT EDUCATION WITH AN EMPHASIS ON ASSISTANTS TO INFANCY by Judi Orion Starting from… |
Sequence 126which ensures the purity of the sea-water and the purity of the air during the many millions of years is called life"… |
Sequence 10Rathunde, Kevin, & Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. "Middle School Students' Motivation and Quality of… |
Sequence 33--- ------------------------------ seeming independence from nature and our bodily existence. The first Semitic aleph-beth… |
Sequence 32THE SCHOOLS OUR CHILDREN DESERVE: HELPING PARENTS UNDERSTAND THE RATIONALE FOR ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION by Alfie Kohn A/fie… |
Sequence 115to isolate one element out of a complex, the isolated parts and their separate behaviors never explain the associated… |
Sequence 159If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of… |
Sequence 210puppet presentations, and Total Physical Response (TPR) to intro- duce vocabulary are all recommended. Art projects, food… |
Sequence 95Cosmic Education for the Elemen- tary-aged child. Dr. Montessori researched the needs of the child under three, culminating… |
Sequence 19trees, and all life that emanates from the natural world (Montessori, From C!tildhood to Adolescence 19). This inner… |
Sequence 43INDEPENDENCE There are other qualities developed in Montessori children that will serve them as well when it comes time for… |
Sequence 67UNIVERSAL MORAL DEVELOPMENT: THE BASIS FOR HUMAN UNITY AND PEACE by Allyn Travis Because the elementary years represent t!,e… |
Sequence 73we have had people immigrate to Wisconsin from countries where parental corporal punishment is permissible. Beating your… |
Sequence 176The time in the past is gone when Rome and Greece were mixed with the memories, sometimes justly unsympathetic memories, of… |
Sequence 177past, condemning one to waste time on issues that already have been solved or, at least, issues that have been put in some… |
Sequence 178young man is supposed to wear to the chariot races as well as what exercises will mold attractive feet and biceps to excite… |
Sequence 285fn this paper, I will summarize the fundamentals of current re- search-basedK-12 social, emotional, ethical, and aca-… |
Sequence 151WHOLE-SCHOOL APPROACHES TO MONTESSORI SPECIAL EDUCATION by Paula Leigh-Doyle, Jacquie Maughan, and Maura Joyce… |
Sequence 153program called Bal-A-Vis-X, overseen by an occupational therapist (seeGranke and Leigh-Doyle). This is part of our whole-… |
Sequence 156Administrators must foster a nonjudgmental environment, a community of humility, openness, receptivity to new information,… |
Sequence 169school. The fact that you serve a population under the age of five puts you into this very popular area of early childhood… |
Sequence 170Then we started the writing process. We needed to tell them in a language that they could understand, and I say this with all… |
Sequence 175This approach has also presented some challenges. One is that when we screen children across the board, we've had to be… |
Sequence 194books, television, and computers. As these technologies have grown, so has the potential risk of disembodiment. Abram's… |
Sequence 82number lose any sense of innocence, of connection to that which is larger. But our students are not lost; they are finding… |
Sequence 175The Montessori perspective is to get students to operationalize the ideas themselves. If we ignore their way of thinking and… |
Sequence 30children are offered more and more challenge to their hand-under close supervision-we find they are capable of doing many… |