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Sequence 221Renilde Montessori then presented her vision of origins and innovation. Inspired by the Taliesin community, she began with a… |
Sequence 234reality directly without assuming that all truth lies with their founders. They need to take responsibility for the… |
Sequence 58COSMIC EDUCATION by Margaret E. Stephenson Cosmic Education is, in a way, what we have been leading up to all these days,… |
Sequence 61explores the whys and the wherefores of the universe, using the keys given with the elementary environment and employing his… |
Sequence 91Montessori continues in To Educate the Human Potential: The child of six who has been in a Montessori school has the… |
Sequence 94Q:To what degree can you take the philosophical realizations of Cosmic Education that take place in the second plane (the… |
Sequence 14Montessori, Maria. To Educate tile Humnn Potential. 1948. Adyar, Madras, India: Kalakshetra, 1986. Montessori, Maria.… |
Sequence 47Montessori, Maria. What You Should Know about Your Child. 1948. Adyar, Madras, India: Kalakshetra, 1966. Montessori, Mario.… |
Sequence 91ment. Knowledge is what the human mind strives to acquire and what gives the child a rewarding life. MORAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE… |
Sequence 98REFERENCES Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, & Kevin Rathunde. "The Devel- opment of the Person: An Experiential… |
Sequence 160REFERENCES Montessori, Maria. Kosmische Erziehung [Cosmic Ed11ca- lio11J. Freiburg, Germany: Herder, 1988. German trans-… |
Sequence 190scheduling practice, and assessing levels of achievement, as a teacher usually does, the guide, based on his or her knowledge… |
Sequence 221We are located on the far north- west side of Chicago, nestled in a corporate office park and conve- niently located near… |
Sequence 227landandnaturetrailsinfastestgrow- ing area of Minn. Barn, workshop, and farmhouse on property. Water and snow activities,… |
Sequence 232Mail/fax/emailresumeto:Mary Gaines, Head of School, Metropoli- tan Montessori School, 325 West 85th Street, New York, NY… |
Sequence 236We are looking for two caring and responsible individuals to work in our small, private school located in the Dallas area.… |
Sequence 239mitment to Montessori education. A proven record of developing objec- tives and strategic goals is critical as well as… |
Sequence 30that-all in one word, which we don't do in English. We tend to depend much more on syntax or word order or stringing… |
Sequence 47have seen it in my own children. My third child is actually probably the slowest with language of any of them, but he's… |
Sequence 73sentence, or a short paragraph that describes, defines, or highlights an experience in the environment.Descriptive labels for… |
Sequence 79herself how a moment's insight is captured in the seventeen syllables of haiku, translated from the Japanese. As with… |
Sequence 113something that's a sign that's inevitably linked to a particular occa- sion, like traffic lights at intersections,… |
Sequence 149The trees The ancient guards The silent watchers They follow me with eyes unseen And that silence That terrible silence,… |
Sequence 153REFERENCES The Adolescent Colloquium: Summary of the Proceedings. Cleveland, OH: Montessori Teacher Education Collabo-… |
Sequence 154PROCESS WRITING: FINDING FLOW IN ADOLESCENT SELF-EXPRESSION by Kim Kinzer-Brackbill Process writing has been a mainstay for… |
Sequence 188CLASSIFIEDS Arizona Montessori International School, an AMI recognized school for pri- mary and lower elementary, is seek… |
Sequence 198MontessoriSchoolofKokomo,Inc. is seeking an Elementary teacher for the ages 6-9 and a Primary teacher for the ages 3-6,… |
Sequence 209Westside Montessori School, es- tablished in 1977, is seeking AMI or AMS directresses to apply for pri- mary and toddler… |
Sequence 55THE CULTURE OF CIVILITY: THE COHESION OF THE SOCIAL COMMUNITY by Pat Ludick Comparing the common characteristics between… |
Sequence 78I am reminded of the truth of these comments every year. The fact is that adults, in general, don't like this age. Many… |
Sequence 88And adolescents need to engage in real work that they see as important to others, to their community of peers or to the larger… |
Sequence 173Away from my house, my farm, my barn, my friends Tony and the Yoders, my bed, my fireplace, and everything else I now… |
Sequence 194• Values and Attitudes Having worked with all of the above models that explore Place as Pedagogy, it is easy to applaud the… |
Sequence 216exercise his mental powers. Instruction is considered the on! y goal in secondary school, but what sort of instruction? What… |
Sequence 293WHY NOT CONSIDER ERDKINDER? by Peter Gebhardt-Seele Dr. Peter Gebhardt Seele describes the Erdkinder ideal in relation to… |
Sequence 319ideas of Erdkinder out of this milieu is the thesis that the documenta- tion in this paper seeks to demonstrate. She as much… |
Sequence 391microcosm. They re- semble a child's aquarium. In his au- tobiography, Loren Eiseley writes that his most important… |
Sequence 494and basic algebra. Therefore, the next stage of mathematics must use and develop this power of abstraction. The second… |
Sequence 5132. Lay down a baseline and measure it as accurately as possible and precisely as necessary. This is the most important stage… |
Sequence 542bottom line pressures? From journalistic sensationalism or the patenting of genetic breakthroughs, some prac- tices that… |
Sequence 561brings wholeness rather than fragmentation to one's life and requires the courage to use life-affirming principles to… |
Sequence 577Timeline: Montessori Secondary Development 1907-Rome: Opening of tht Ctlsa dri Biim&mi, the flm MonleSiori e,iperiment… |
Sequence 585• Understanding work as a product of commerce necessary to community life, leading to a beginning view of economic… |
Sequence 597Victor Davis Hanson is professor of Greek at California State University (Fresno) and lives on his family's farm in the… |
Sequence 8forty-five years prior to any of the early brain research on the potentials of children under three. So once again she was a… |
Sequence 51ATTACHMENT PARENTING: A STYLE THAT w ORKS by William Sears It is important to fully explore the questions of attachment and… |
Sequence 66The fundamental disagreement between attachment parenting and Montessori philosophy lies in the definition and importance of… |
Sequence 67Montessori, Maria. The Discovery of the Child. 1948. Trans. M.J. Costelloe. Madras, India: Kalakshetra, 1967. Montessori,… |
Sequence 106Around five to six months of age, precisely because his motor abilities have improved so much, the child may decide to get out… |
Sequence 195USING THE ASSISTANTS TO INFANCY FOR PRE-ADOLESCENTS: ANTICIPATING A HEALTHY p ARENTHOOD by Judi Orion The life cycle of… |
Sequence 221child, the greater must be the preparation of the people who will take care of him or her. During the many years she spent in… |
Sequence 224been tried out in the home and in Infant Communities. 1 For instance, a low, large bed is a great help for the sensory and… |
Sequence 248gree/Masterspreferredandmustbe OCCS qualified as director 1 or di- rector 2. School administration ex- perience minimum 2-3… |
Sequence 260,--------------------------- - --- ---- of ll0children. Currently our school has one toddler class, three primary and one… |
Sequence 38Goo WHo HAs No HANDS by Mario M. Montessori Sometimes referred to as the "Story of the Universe," "… |
Sequence 48Goo's CosMic PLAN AND THE WORK OF THE CHILD by Carol Cannon Dittberner Integrating the broad vision of cosmic education… |
Sequence 79EXCELLENCE AND ETHICS IN BUSINESS I would like to say a few words about what happens at the other end, once you are into… |
Sequence 105You will notice that I talk about contents. Cosmic education, among other things, is about what to put before the children.… |
Sequence 120CIVILITY AND CITIZENSHIP: THE ROOTS OF COMMUNITY CONNECTION by Patricia Ludick This article weaves into the adolescent… |
Sequence 133REFERENCES Berry, Wendell. Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community. New York: Pantheon Press, 1992. Berry, Wendell. Recollected… |
Sequence 143trembled in the morning sun. They were golden, translu- cent, amazing sheaves of wheat. The light drove down the shafts of… |
Sequence 161components describes the real parameters of a philosophy of educa- tion, the important ones in any case. Today l'm going… |
Sequence 181clams, jellyfish, starfish, sponges, spiders, vertebrates, leeches, lawyers, and other species began to develop. (Adapted… |
Sequence 197interesting that this is what he drew from that. Six million Jews die, and he's talking about indifference and wonder.… |
Sequence 6history, in the earth's logic, in nature's bounty, in the wonders of the human-built world. We are keepers of human… |
Sequence 16The totality of the cosmos may not be compartmentalized into subjects. Subjects are helpful for the teacher to keep order… |
Sequence 17Houses. This is not a snobby attitude. If we take in too many children who cannot follow their healthy inner urges, then we… |
Sequence 44children we love and work with. Thank you for your attention. It has been an honor to share these thoughts with you.… |
Sequence 66The first and third planes, ages zero to six and twelve to eighteen, are periods of creation of characteristics that were not… |
Sequence 75care about the development of the child. In a lecture given in 1939 in London, Dr. Montessori said: The child is not only the… |
Sequence 124closing or revolutionizing the traditional types of employ- ment. ... there is a need for a more dynamic training of… |
Sequence 163extremely valuable and will have these larger social and political effects. With that, let me begin to talk about the topic… |
Sequence 170This shift of focus from objects to relationships is not an easy one because it is something that goes counter to the… |
Sequence 12need to go inside of our being and get in con tact with our "True Self," the divine core where divine Light… |
Sequence 38the children and adolescents we serve on a daily basis. My belief is that they teach us, inform us, and pull us toward our own… |
Sequence 59cient history, astronomy, geology, and chemistry-in other words, a cosmic curriculum. The work of the child at the second… |
Sequence 88memorization of puzzle words, or math facts, our goal should be to hear the child asking questions such as these: "… |
Sequence 96upset if they are given any kind of gift, which is what anthropologists used to do originally when they visited. They left… |
Sequence 109never called work anything that they themselves originated. That is the typical way in which kids learn about what's work… |
Sequence 119to provide any kind of alternative to these old traditional ways of development. Then there is this fourth category, which is… |
Sequence 192an Extended Day Program as well as both Before and After School Pro- grams. Please contact: Maureen Quinn 168 Turnpike… |
Sequence 14REFERENCES Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. "Flow and Education." The NAMT A Journal 22.2 (1997, Spring): 3-35.… |
Sequence 74REFERENCES Montessori, M. From Childhood to Adolescence. 1948. Rev. ed. Trans. AM. Joosten. Oxford, England: Clio, 1996.… |
Sequence 84REFERENCES Haines, A.M. Spontaneous Concentration in the Montessori Prepared Environment. Videocassette. NAMTA, 1997.… |
Sequence 23context provided by the psychological planes of development, it was easier to see the materials as part of a whole rather than… |
Sequence 26Over four consecutive years both a Casa Dei Bambini and four elementary classes were opened, and by 1952 the school was… |
Sequence 28But this cosmic vision belonged not only to Maria Montessori; it belongs to the whole of our Montessori movement. It imparts a… |
Sequence 30ees need to understand fully the principles of geology, biology, and history. They need a good general background so that by… |
Sequence 44This is the time, says Montessori, "when the social man is created but has not yet reached full development"… |
Sequence 52The "Energies" of Infancy In the lecture that Montessori gave with the help of this second chart (Second… |
Sequence 66matter. One might almost say they represent a kind of distillation of her thinking, observation, and reflection over many,… |
Sequence 67Montessori, Maria. From Childhood to Adolescence. 1948. Trans. The Montessori Educational Research Center. New York: Schocken… |
Sequence 99other hand, why is it that a few prisms keep their original colors? • How should we set about representing (by means of loose… |
Sequence 111This clear separation would help communication both within the adult Montessori community and also with the world at large.… |
Sequence 116The Child, Society and the World: Unpublished Speeches and Writings This book (Clio Press) includes a lecture given by Maria… |
Sequence 118also" the mother with six children of different ages is far better off than the mother with one."… |
Sequence 119differences also by providing each elementary environment (be it six to nine or nine to twelve) with a full set of advanced… |
Sequence 136Figure 7. World Map Showing the Main Peninsulas of the World. Etymologies The teacher or children can research the stories or… |
Sequence 140Foreword by Margaret Drummond. The Italian edition isComeconobbiMaria Montessori. Rome: Vita dell'infanzia, 1956.… |
Sequence 159environment. He is like the spider, whose web, whose field of action, is enormous in comparison to the animal itself (… |