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Sequence 201PARENT EDUCATION MAGAZINE.5 UNDERWAY NAMTA board members"l1ave authorized rhe publication of an expanded parent… |
Sequence 7THE IMPORTANCE OF MONTESSORI 2000 New American Schools Development Corporation (NASDC) was founded in 199 l by Lamar… |
Sequence 11MONTESSORI 2000 MISSION T he United States of America is thirsting for bold, new education designs. The exponential knowledge… |
Sequence 159RUFFING MONTESSORI SCHOOL PEACE CURRICULUM: AN INFORMAL NARRATIVE by John Long In these excerpts from a talk presented at… |
Sequence 161The ways in which conflicts are resolved within a classroom are impor- tant, too; invariably conflicts come up. It's… |
Sequence 9ABSORBENT MIND UPDATE: REsEARCH SHEDS NEW UGHf ON MONTESSORI THEORY by Annette M. Haines Citing numerous emptrica/ studies… |
Sequence 141TIME FOR SIXES AND SEVENS by Rilla Spellman Startingfrom an analytical understanding of the developmental process that takes… |
Sequence 168Montessori talked a good deal about the "spiritual preparation" of the teacher(1936, pp. 115-123), and it… |
Sequence 182servation and discovery, freedom and discipline. These are not things which are switched off and on for certain periods… |
Sequence 61being? What makes a culture a culture? What makes a story a story? The philosophical question can provide a basis for an… |
Sequence 9THE ECOLOGY OF TIIE MIND by Luciano Mazzetti The title of this lecture, "The Ecology of the Mind," comes… |
Sequence 25• choose well; need normalized core group • limited to 15% of class • limited to 20% of class • only after extensive… |
Sequence 18concrete, real, and relevant to the lives of young children; (5) provid- ing experiences for children that are outside of the… |
Sequence 83Children can also keep an alphabetically filed dictionary of their known words on index cards in a small file box. They can… |
Sequence 121sciousness, activate their personal schema. Have you ever been taken somewhere you didn't want to go? (Gilly is being… |
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 212STEP BY STEP MONTESSORI SCHOOLS in Minneapolis, Minnesota will be hiring certified, experienced Montessori teachers for the… |
Sequence 83faculty without increasing the number of students. I'm sure there are creative solutions which could reduce the number of… |
Sequence 94the Montessori educational community, yet he made most of his discov- eries in his own classroom working with a group of… |
Sequence 122MONTESSORI AND ASSESSMENT: SOME ISSUES OF ASSESSMENT AND CURRICULUM REFORM by Annette M. Haines INTRODUCTION This study… |
Sequence 129to make it all. And so I think that the focus ... is tohelp,asmuch as possible, as quickly as possible, and as early as can be… |
Sequence 9viewed her educational principles from the very start as anything less than a contribution to the whole planet. Accordingly,… |
Sequence 26SLIDE SHOW TO INTRODUCE WHAT Is MONTESSORI PRESCHOOL? Maria Montessori was, in many ways, ahead of her time. Born in Italy… |
Sequence 32The materials for written language first introduce the child to the marvelous twenty- six letters of the alphabet and their… |
Sequence 40Because parents are treated as col- laborators in Montessori, they are often invited into the classroom to share and… |
Sequence 105THE MATHEMATICAL INTELLIGENCE SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF THE MONTESSORI THEORY OF THE HUMAN TENDENCIES Kay M. Baker Dr. Baker… |
Sequence 114MAINTAINING THE MONTESSORI METAPHOR: WHAT EVERY CHILD WANTS AND NEEDS by Asa G. Hilliard In straightfonvard terms, Dr.… |
Sequence 130and needs, then you have to create the environment. Even if it's not necessary to get a job at IBM, that's okay; if… |
Sequence 133We might now continue our conversation with Montessori: "Now that you have returned to your studies, what are you… |
Sequence 140each plane, is where children have opportunities to engage in and implement their expanding humanness, this hierarchical… |
Sequence 171THE NORMALIZED SCHOOL: MONTESSORI AS A WAY OF LIFE by Mary Zeman Mary Zeman offers a definition of the "nonnalized… |
Sequence 6ALL-DAY MONTESSORI: NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF THE EXPERIMENT by David Kahn The catch phrase "all-day Montessori&… |
Sequence 72matters like eating and resting during the course of the day must be addressed. Should lunch be prepared by the children on… |
Sequence 19When Maria Montessori set up her first class environment in San Lorenzo in 1907, there were many educational scholars who… |
Sequence 6FOREWORD: FINDING FLOW IN MONTESSORI Imagine a river in time, a time span of one hundred years. On the one side there is… |
Sequence 10the trap-and when I say we, I mean psychologists who are studying children and learning-we fell into the trap of using the… |
Sequence 30probably do it quite well, from what I can see, and that's not a problem in your type of schooling. The other thing to… |
Sequence 40couple of different angles, one being parent education-that it's new language and a new way to talk about their child,… |
Sequence 62Q: Do you think it's actually possible to directly teach people to make the optimum choice when their skill levels and… |
Sequence 81QUESTIONS ANO ANSWERS Q: As Montessorians, how can we can get our work selected by the culture? A: Obviously, if I had a… |
Sequence 95are male characteristics. Creative men, on the other hand, besides being masculine, also have sensitivity, openness, empathy,… |
Sequence 204Montessori Administration Sharon L. Dubble and David Kahn Week One (July 14-18), 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily Administrators… |
Sequence 22In terms of specific expectations, one was that our students had to take a state-required American Constitution test. We… |
Sequence 37Mike suggested that two complementary paths seem to be emerg- ing: the national model and the regional projects. Miss… |
Sequence 45standard, as Monte discussed. What help can we provide for these schools so that they do not hurt the good name of Montessori… |
Sequence 47hand, we have the visiting specialists, etc. Are these parallel or are they integrated? Kay replied that this issue needs… |
Sequence 60other. You need the autonomy, but, equally important, you need the community." And especially with young children,… |
Sequence 72Prepare teachers through prolonged practice with observation of nature .... (Discovery 66-77) And when I talk about freedom… |
Sequence 93Why is that? Why is that-especially in the face of the importance that Dr. Montessori gave to normalization? Is it that we… |
Sequence 94NORMALIZATION AS OUR PRIMARY WORK Perhaps this conference marks the next step in our development of Montessori's ideas.… |
Sequence 89COSMOS, HISTORY, AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT by Gerard Leonard A rare weave of classroom examples, literary allusions, and… |
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 94Whenever possible, music and poetry may be related to things children say. For example, once at the beginning of June, three… |
Sequence 6THE CASADEI BAMBINI: PRIMARY PERSPECTIVES THROUGH TIME AND SPACE by David Kahn The vision of San Lorenzo, the Casadei… |
Sequence 9Casa dei Bambini, San Lorenzo, Rome 4 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 25, No. 1 • Winter 2000 |
Sequence 10THE CASADEI BAMBINI: A CENTURY CONCEPT by Elizabeth Hall Elizabeth Hall walks readers through early Montessori history, from… |
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 221Renilde Montessori then presented her vision of origins and innovation. Inspired by the Taliesin community, she began with a… |
Sequence 14A man whose mind is stored with the knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of nature and of the laws of her operations… |
Sequence 15varies from stage to stage because of the way a child learns at each period of his growth and development. The adult, instead… |
Sequence 31his time, place and culture." 1 Within all life the germinal cell is endowed with a plan to bring the particular life… |
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 59impulse towards work." 1 She had noticed that impulse in the work of that first group of children she was asked to… |
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 251Joosten: Some have disappeared and others have come in, etc. But whatever they use, whatever you see being used, will be a… |
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 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 105You will notice that I talk about contents. Cosmic education, among other things, is about what to put before the children.… |
Sequence 48cusp, children who were tougher, noisier, and more rational, dangling between the two planes of development-I looked at them… |
Sequence 73as a model for the "Children's House" of San Lorenzo. Montessori gave the name "Erdkinder,… |
Sequence 86The fundamentals of freedom and responsibility are paramount in the healthy functioning of such a class. The two must be kept… |
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 10of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering!" Once this… |
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… |