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Sequence 67ASSESSMENT Montessori 2000 provides an extremely important opportunity to further an unfulfilled assessment need that has… |
Sequence 77PHASE 2 0 YEAR Two IMPLEMENTATION AT PILOT SITES 1993 - 1994 Two weU-established, exemplary Montessori programs representing… |
Sequence 85Key Personnel • David Kahn, Project Director David Kahn holds a B.A. in fine arts with a minor in classics from the… |
Sequence 87Key Institutions • The following institutions are key to the development of the Montessori 2000 project. Montessori… |
Sequence 152THE MONTESSORI TEACHER EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE The Collaborative is pleased to announce four new courses. The selection of… |
Sequence 17Direct application of ideas conceived through observations and interpre- tation of the work of children is curriculum… |
Sequence 117AM I trained elementary and primary teachers wanted for a growing school with strong par- ent support located in beautiful… |
Sequence 7EDITORIAL REINVENTING MONTESSORI: PERILS AND POSSIBILITIES by David Kahn To what degree is the fundamental test of… |
Sequence 38to a cultural environment shaped by centuries of elaboration of the thinking techniques made possible by literacy. Second, it… |
Sequence 56They bear on the human quite evidently, but as we look at a discipline like macroeconomics, it hardly seems to fit easily into… |
Sequence 75sample included only those third-year students who had a minimum of four years' experience in a Montessori program. To… |
Sequence 88The analysis of behaviors characterizing autonomy in this study implies the cyclical nature of its development, involving the… |
Sequence 153Maps of the world and of the United States are of special interest to Arron. One day I gave him a blank paper map of the… |
Sequence 170done and Japanese peace lanterns that were made; there was a kids' coloring book that talked about social skills leading… |
Sequence 182agencies in offering a viable model for the preservation and enhancement of agricultural, natural, and historic lands.… |
Sequence 184children from their earliest entrance into the educational community will be accli- mated to the developmental possibilities… |
Sequence 191Seattle (Washington) Montessori 2000 entails a conversion of a private Montessori institution to a public school spanning the… |
Sequence 201MONTESSORI PUBLIC SCHOOL CONSORTIUM SELECTS NEW DIRECTOR Endorsed by both the Association Montessori Internationale and the… |
Sequence 93LITERATURE AND GRAMMAR by Mrs. Francesca Claremont Transcribed and Edited by Jim and Frances Fitzpatrick Here follow two… |
Sequence 128by the husband. This cycle is found among the Native Americans of the eastern United States and Canada as well as among the… |
Sequence 191Unusual Teacher for an Unusual School The Heads Up! Elementary Program Palo Alto, California Innovative Montessori-based… |
Sequence 198MONTESSORI TEACHER EDUCATION COUABORATIVE an AMI affiliate operating the Ohio Montessori Training Institute (Cleveland, Ohio… |
Sequence 4ario Montessori Jr. died on February 25. 1993. Apart from his superb practice as a psychologist. Dr. Montessori was a gra-… |
Sequence 8THE AooLESCENT AND THE FUit.JRE by Margaret E. Stephenson Miss Stephenson presents adolescence in a definitive theorectl… |
Sequence 18logical characteristics and each needs a prepared adult to help the individual help himself. The four planes of development… |
Sequence 66HISTORY, CMcs, GEOGRAPHY, AND ECONOMICS 1. What is the democratic ideal? How, when, why, and where has it arisen in the… |
Sequence 673. Economic Development-How have societies organized themselves economically? What conditions have caused changes in the ways… |
Sequence 17it probably is not necessary to show the whole process. For example, a Bring Me game usually assumes that the children can… |
Sequence 103parents hire caretakers with different language patterns from their own, they should not be surprised if their child's… |
Sequence 104The children spent most of !heir time in teacher-directed large- group activities, and ... most of their language behavior was… |
Sequence 111REsHAPING EARLY CHIIDHOOD INrnRVENTION To BE A MoRE EFFECTIVE WEAPON AGAINST POVER1Y by Edward Zigler, PhD Drawing on his… |
Sequence 130unafraid to take bold initiatives with new partners so that all of America's children would be part of the success story… |
Sequence 131Yet even this reform rhetoric reverses back on itself and lowers expecta- tions for some of our children. The limited vision… |
Sequence 138We need to examine the work of the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education, a consortium of twenty-eight school… |
Sequence 9THE ECOLOGY OF TIIE MIND by Luciano Mazzetti The title of this lecture, "The Ecology of the Mind," comes… |
Sequence 57perfect society touched this woman. And the positivist, who disbelieved in religion, continues: "One day, in great… |
Sequence 155F~----------------- MONTESSORI AND LEARNING DISABIUTIES by Sylvia 0. Richardson American education is currently under attack… |
Sequence 7Foreword NAMTA bas provided consistent support for Montessori ado- lescent programs in the United States. ln 1994, in… |
Sequence 13Where are they located? One school is in Canada, one in Mexico, and 31 in the United States. Nine schools are east of the… |
Sequence 35MONTESSORI AS AN AID TO LIFE by Hildegard Solzbacher Hildegard Solzbacher's direct encounter with Montessori values and… |
Sequence 62One elementary school head in an affluent Midwestern suburb recently told me that children from "normal"… |
Sequence 73THE PLACE OF READING RECOVERY IN MONTESSORI SCHOOLS by Mary Maher Boehnlein, PhD Dr. Boehnlein discusses the Reading… |
Sequence 74fact accounts for the spread of this approach to 49 of the 50 states and to other English-speaking countries, in both public… |
Sequence 85For the beginning reader, Clay advocates using pictures as one source of the meaning information to assist the young reader in… |
Sequence 166According to Kenneth Strike's analysis (1982, p. 214), two educa- tional strategies are possible prescriptions to… |
Sequence 181Bremer, J. (1985, Fall). Education as peace. The NAMTA Quar- terly, 11(1), 21-40. Capra, F. (1993). The turning of the tide.… |
Sequence 186In 1938, with the help of friends in India, she and her family managed to leave Austria before the War. She was to spend nine… |
Sequence 19all-day designs which build a more natural pace and better relation- ships between the children and the adults. Usually at… |
Sequence 57FUTURE CHALLENGE: THE NATllRAL WORLD Outdoor experiences play a critical role in meeting the needs of the whole school and… |
Sequence 111MONTESSORI HEAD START IMPLEMENTATION BRIEF by Alcillia Clifford and David Kahn MONTESSORI HEAD START: A COMPREHENSIVE… |
Sequence 122MONTESSORI AND ASSESSMENT: SOME ISSUES OF ASSESSMENT AND CURRICULUM REFORM by Annette M. Haines INTRODUCTION This study… |
Sequence 139COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PEACE EDUCATION APPROACHES AND THEIR EFFECTIVENESS by Ian Harris, PhD, and Aaron Callender Teachers in… |
Sequence 155The Montessori approach is the integration of disabled and non- disabled children in the same learning environment because Mon… |
Sequence 156UNIVERSALITY OF THE SPECIAL CHILD by Nimal Vaz Human beings are generally accustomed to taking survival for granted. At a… |
Sequence 173TRAINING THE MONTESSORI TEACHERS by Claude A. Claremont, PhD STUDIO HOUSE IN WAR-TIME "It's an ill wind that… |
Sequence 7WORLD MONTESSORI: RENEWAL THROUGH COOPERATION by David Kahn What is the task confronting education? It is above all the task… |
Sequence 11PART I MONTESSORI IN AMERICA SAN FRANCISCO, 1915 August, 1995, marks the 125th anniversary of Maria Montessori' s… |
Sequence 14these "deficient" children, in 1907 she took her new teaching prin- ciples to "normal"… |
Sequence 16lecture extensively to wider audiences, including a combined session of the 53rd annual convention of the National Education… |
Sequence 17and Montessori teaching in the U.S. fell on hard times. Some of the new "Montessori" schools in the U.S.… |
Sequence 107the abilities of children throughout the world. As early as 1910, she resigned her lectureship at the University of Rome,… |
Sequence 27Maria Montessori died in 1952, but her work continues. Today there are close to five thousand private and approximately two… |
Sequence 38society, and it is the target of a lot of the testing (including IQ testing) that goes on in the United States and around the… |
Sequence 39The first reason has to do with scholarship based on the old model. Consider the recent book The Bell Curve (Herrnstein &… |
Sequence 150Greek, ·French, Latin, science, history. High school ends with the toughest exam in one's life. Without passing it, one… |
Sequence 172We can readily sympathize with any reader who finds the record of these events hard to believe. It was exactly the same with… |
Sequence 182When something is amiss in our classroom, in our school, among the parents, or within ourselves, why not take Montessori'… |
Sequence 6ALL-DAY MONTESSORI: NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF THE EXPERIMENT by David Kahn The catch phrase "all-day Montessori&… |
Sequence 1085. Manufactured Equipment and Play Structures The primary function of most manufactured play equipment is to support gross… |
Sequence 44COSMIC EDUCATION AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL AND THE ROLE OF THE MATERIALS by Carnillo Grazzini The first section of Mr.… |
Sequence 143These results suggest that flow has important implications for teaching students in our schools. The general attitude toward… |
Sequence 146time in public or alone, and she was involved in a host of new activities. The quality of Caterina's experience had also… |
Sequence 150It should be noted that this method for measuring flow is extremely liberal, relying on the same sort of generalizations one… |
Sequence 203Distinctions between school and neighborhood and community would blur as well. Anyone can perform teaching tasks and… |
Sequence 4PREFACE The Adolescent Colloquium was planned by the Montessori Teacher Education Collaborative about six months before it… |
Sequence 35sense of ownership of the place. Therefore, she questioned the possibility of a national model using children drawn from all… |
Sequence 134requires it; it requires that we dialogue. If you dialogue, you've got to be culturally salient. I think you will hear in… |
Sequence 152inventions of the scientific period, and culminated-not openly, but there was never any doubt-in the United States of America… |
Sequence 211Just so that you know why my name is so long, let me explain it and parse it to make it easier to remember. It is made up of… |
Sequence 222transmitted and becomes more and more complex. We get mortars and pestles and then stone grinding mills and all of that-just… |
Sequence 276great co-ops: Sun-Maid raisin growers is a good example, though it is a cooperative that I think many years ago sold out its… |
Sequence 340Wolf's survey is a resource which will provide a variety of starters for conversations and classroom techniques about… |
Sequence 351organization of story, logic, and truth, which comes to the inevitable realization that to serve is to balance one's… |
Sequence 45understanding of the Child and promoting a new concept of education. This she did consistently and tirelessly for fifty years… |
Sequence 51Froebel, it was in the concept of "play" that he recognized human activity which brought the outer world in… |
Sequence 56THE MONTESSORI FAMILY AND ME by Margot W altuch This beautiful vignette of Margot Waltuch' s connection to the… |
Sequence 61ing fourteen leaf-shaped insets with wooden frames. The study of leaves launched the children into a detailed and particular… |
Sequence 63It was a delight to watch Mario with children of any age, in any country, immersed in any situation. Mario could speak with… |
Sequence 123REFERENCES Aries, P. Centuries of Childhood. New York: Vintage, 1962. Csikszentmihalyi, M. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal… |
Sequence 148Certainly more than twenty years of the" urban compromise" in the United States represents a noteworthy… |
Sequence 150community, since the former and the latter are quite distinct in terms of the community members, the aims, and therefore the… |
Sequence 161United States), a few of the more significant ones could be selected. On the basis of this documentation, it would be possible… |
Sequence 195reflection on this issue, and the CRC is a superb base document for this reflection. THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN'S… |
Sequence 205nity for maintaining cultural continuity while working for economic development (Boulding). Some environmental educators… |
Sequence 287around the school, eventually en- compassing infancy to Erdkinder. Immediate need for a primary teacher. Contact: Anna Marie… |
Sequence 292Heartland Community School, River Falls, WI is seeking AMI- trained applicants at all levels for school serving children 2… |
Sequence 298NEW NAMTA VIDEOS Now available in USA NAMTAis proudtopresent thevideo Montessori in Action: Learning for Life for the first… |
Sequence 12in an experience of religious education known as the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd. The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd… |
Sequence 41AN INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT Evidence of the suitability of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd for children of diverse cultures… |
Sequence 72At the same time, she identifies herself as a student of philosophy. She even translated an 1866 English edition of a book by… |