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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 9stresses the same idea in her writing: "the child must learn by his own individual activity, being given a mental… |
Sequence 3scale, another time computing the relative distances between the plan- ets to a scale that would fit in the classroom. The… |
Sequence 6Montessori and the Humanities means a clarification of goals. We have a saying in Montessori - "Montessori is an aid… |
Sequence 1Montessori: The Humanities Connection Mythos, Logos, and the Generalist Ideal by David Kahn Montessori education may be a… |
Sequence 6The Greek Educational Analogue We look to the classics at this point, not to suggest that a study of the ancient culture… |
Sequence 1CLASS DISCUSSION A Scenario For The Trivium by Journet Kahn Dr. Kahn looks at the liberal arts of logic, grammm; and… |
Sequence 8- the syntax or predictable structure of the language. For example, at the simplest level beyond pictures and labels, a book… |
Sequence 1OFT-TOLD TALES by David H. Millstone With Homer as thefr guide, Vermont elementary students spend six months in a voyage to… |
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 10viva] of the fittest demands, safeguarding tradition in order to under- stand how co achieve social and technical skills… |
Sequence 1APPENDIX I HERSHEY MONTESSORI ERDKINDER PROJECT A Preliminary Proposal by Michael Bagiackas Hershey Montessori School has… |
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 7achievements. Educated Victorians were more familiar with long-ago battles on the windy plains of Troy, the wooden horse, and… |
Sequence 9awful. I hated it," I answered firmly. I had a feeling that she would not appreciate that response. It turns out I… |
Sequence 3it a little, thus relieving them of responsibility for engaging in such a childish activity. Besides, they still enjoy being… |
Sequence 3Unique Opportunity The Laufenburg Ranch, under the ownership of the Sonoma Land Trust, is unique in offering rich… |
Sequence 11have been traced, and seventeen Robin Hoods. This snowballing happens because there are so few names. Even in England-… |
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 9and meaning in the universe is one of the ways we provide a secure environment. But we also create a context in which there is… |
Sequence 103and meaning in the universe is one of the ways we provide a secure environment. But we also create a context in which there is… |
Sequence 1UNIFYING THE URBAN CONTRIBUTION: MOVING TOWARD ERDKINDER by David Kahn This article suggests that the Erdkinder is a… |
Sequence 11Once, long ago, more than 3,000 years before our time, on the island of Ithaca off the west coast of Greece, lived a king… |
Sequence 1PUBLIC MONTESSORI AND STATE-MANDATED ASSESSMENT by Keith Boehme and Elizabeth Wymer Keith Boehme and Elizabeth Wymer make… |
Sequence 4tion of agrarianism, I will try to suggest to you, is tied to Western culture. In other words, Western culture would not have… |
Sequence 5culture, not because it failed, but because it succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. In other words, using the old Platonic… |
Sequence 7What happened? What made this unique culture? I've argued, and I think I can make the argument very briefly this morning… |
Sequence 8corporate agriculture-farm owners don't want to live where they farm because it's boring, it's dirty; they… |
Sequence 10want to use that word superiority, but Greek military prowess surely is a sign of cultural dynamism. In addition, diversified… |
Sequence 11them first to get the tangent taste out, and then you press them into olive oil. As for barley or wheat, you have to cut it… |
Sequence 14wore-that they would be absolutely formidable and terrifying against foreigners. Herodotus says that when the Persians met… |
Sequence 16digms of exclusion-not unlike modern America. The Hellenistic period is a wide-open period similar to our own, where money… |
Sequence 24related but are slightly different, which we might term survival or entrepre- neurial. A: Absolutely. As I said I've… |
Sequence 2ERDKINDER UNDER CONSTRUCTION: WHAT THE FARM SCHOOLS SHOWED Us by David Kahn Mr. Kahn is directing a project to start a farm… |
Sequence 4Six-year-old girls dressed in white aprons and scarves are making no-bake cookies in the public kindergarten class of… |
Sequence 175Six-year-old girls dressed in white aprons and scarves are making no-bake cookies in the public kindergarten class of… |
Sequence 5record of the life of the child in societies without writing. But we know that some must have grown to maturity; otherwise we… |
Sequence 1During the ride back from the hunger center, I reflected upon my encounter with poverty. When I arrived home my mother stood… |
Sequence 10Attention Grabber The Butter Battle Book, by Dr. Seuss (New York: Random House, 1984), was read to the students. Yes, middle… |
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 10I repeat the same thing about money in order that the immorality and error bound up with it may be destroyed, and we must… |
Sequence 17exist in other cultures. We're not supposed to speak of Western chauvinism now, but I think that I can prove to you that… |
Sequence 18ence, and material overabundance. The nature of human nature being what it is, we would quickly, as Nietzsche said, sink into… |
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 1or Los Angeles. But the Greeks who began to live on the farm created a chauvinism about what they did and who they were.… |
Sequence 3In addition, diversified crops don't require the same soil and climatic conditions. With diversification, now farmers… |
Sequence 4started to have threshing floors, presses, small little agricultural production centers right on their farms or shared by a… |
Sequence 7We have that legacy of dynamism in the West, for good or for evil. The danger for a Western army is always another Western… |
Sequence 8In 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 10happen. But the reality is that probably a.ll of the schools in this room, or the majority of them, are in urban environments… |
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 8HUMANITIES PROJECTS 2000-2001 Study of the Maya I. Study of Living Things II. Technology and the Building Up of Civilization… |
Sequence 20students be able to choose to study any period, any person, any technological achievement at any time? There are good reasons… |
Sequence 30In some ways, it started with our election study, when two people were invited to each represent the views of Gore and Bush on… |
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 6Balancing Creativity and Service Although creativity and social service may seem dichotomous notions, it is the combination… |
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 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 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 1MONTESSORI: CHILDREN, NATURE, AND GROWING UP GREEN PREFACE TO "NATURE AND EMBODIED EDUCATION" BY KEVIN… |
Sequence 22--- ------------------------------ seeming independence from nature and our bodily existence. The first Semitic aleph-beth… |
Sequence 38Montessori, Maria. The Secret oJC!,i/dlwod. 1936. Trans. M. Joseph Costelloe. New York: Ballantine, 1966. Montessori, Maria.… |
Sequence 3If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of… |
Sequence 180Welcome to the Children's Mural This portion of the exhibit was created from over 800 pieces of work submitted by 35… |
Sequence 47The time in the past is gone when Rome and Greece were mixed with the memories, sometimes justly unsympathetic memories, of… |
Sequence 48past, condemning one to waste time on issues that already have been solved or, at least, issues that have been put in some… |
Sequence 49young man is supposed to wear to the chariot races as well as what exercises will mold attractive feet and biceps to excite… |
Sequence 4fn this paper, I will summarize the fundamentals of current re- search-basedK-12 social, emotional, ethical, and aca-… |
Sequence 5books, television, and computers. As these technologies have grown, so has the potential risk of disembodiment. Abram's… |
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 28argues a lot, thinks, and, as a matter of fact, I believe, personally, that it's the first age for the serious study of… |
Sequence 1AN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS FOR VISION BY CONSENSUS USING WHOLE SYSTEMS THEORY by Kathy Minardi Kathy Minardi suggests a… |
Sequence 19The pharaohs and their nobles were very territorial and had stone markers set up to mark the boundaries of their lands.… |
Sequence 8the children in the class will know where the child is going in a short time. Parents of children in the class who are from a… |
Sequence 3Of the many cultures of humankind, of the plenitude of history's eras and their mass of pivotal artifacts, we reasoned… |
Sequence 30last eight days of the trip. For some, this can be a very difficult task; for all, it is a learning experience. Tn the… |
Sequence 3Figure 1. The world map of scientific discovery. and how the syllabus provides a vehicle for integrated science instruction.… |
Sequence 6world of our ancestors. In an increasing global world, we must be continually aware that we share our planet and its natural… |