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Sequence 12. Lay down a baseline and measure it as accurately as possible and precisely as necessary. This is the most important stage… |
Sequence 19bottom line pressures? From journalistic sensationalism or the patenting of genetic breakthroughs, some prac- tices that… |
Sequence 1brings wholeness rather than fragmentation to one's life and requires the courage to use life-affirming principles to… |
Sequence 6What about paternity leave? How many companies in this country give paternity leave? A family is not just a mother and a baby… |
Sequence 2ATTACHMENT PARENTING: A STYLE THAT w ORKS by William Sears It is important to fully explore the questions of attachment and… |
Sequence 1INDEPENDENCE OF THE YOUNG CHILD FROM BIRTH TO THREE by Judi Orion This article explores the idea of independence from a… |
Sequence 10Around five to six months of age, precisely because his motor abilities have improved so much, the child may decide to get out… |
Sequence 6a great whining place. You can just sit here and whine as long as you like." But when a toddler has learned to… |
Sequence 1USING THE ASSISTANTS TO INFANCY FOR PRE-ADOLESCENTS: ANTICIPATING A HEALTHY p ARENTHOOD by Judi Orion The life cycle of… |
Sequence 2Goo's CosMic PLAN AND THE WORK OF THE CHILD by Carol Cannon Dittberner Integrating the broad vision of cosmic education… |
Sequence 9EXCELLENCE AND ETHICS IN BUSINESS I would like to say a few words about what happens at the other end, once you are into… |
Sequence 1CIVILITY AND CITIZENSHIP: THE ROOTS OF COMMUNITY CONNECTION by Patricia Ludick This article weaves into the adolescent… |
Sequence 7components describes the real parameters of a philosophy of educa- tion, the important ones in any case. Today l'm going… |
Sequence 15interesting that this is what he drew from that. Six million Jews die, and he's talking about indifference and wonder.… |
Sequence 2history, in the earth's logic, in nature's bounty, in the wonders of the human-built world. We are keepers of human… |
Sequence 7The totality of the cosmos may not be compartmentalized into subjects. Subjects are helpful for the teacher to keep order… |
Sequence 3cusp, children who were tougher, noisier, and more rational, dangling between the two planes of development-I looked at them… |
Sequence 7The first and third planes, ages zero to six and twelve to eighteen, are periods of creation of characteristics that were not… |
Sequence 2and their expanding intellect (97-109). The prepared environment of the Erdkinder includes a working farm, a "museum… |
Sequence 14closing or revolutionizing the traditional types of employ- ment. ... there is a need for a more dynamic training of… |
Sequence 4extremely valuable and will have these larger social and political effects. With that, let me begin to talk about the topic… |
Sequence 11This shift of focus from objects to relationships is not an easy one because it is something that goes counter to the… |
Sequence 36Q. But she did. She said it. She said exactly what you said, that starting with the bacteria, each organism actually created… |
Sequence 6need to go inside of our being and get in con tact with our "True Self," the divine core where divine Light… |
Sequence 6cient history, astronomy, geology, and chemistry-in other words, a cosmic curriculum. The work of the child at the second… |
Sequence 23memorization of puzzle words, or math facts, our goal should be to hear the child asking questions such as these: "… |
Sequence 5upset if they are given any kind of gift, which is what anthropologists used to do originally when they visited. They left… |
Sequence 6to provide any kind of alternative to these old traditional ways of development. Then there is this fourth category, which is… |
Sequence 2Don't get discouraged with a child. Re- member that the child that comes each morning is not the same as the one that… |
Sequence 7of childhood." We realized that everything we were learning con- trasted strongly with our traditional state training… |
Sequence 13Starting in the 1950s and continuing throughout the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s, AMI organized elementary study… |
Sequence 14But this cosmic vision belonged not only to Maria Montessori; it belongs to the whole of our Montessori movement. It imparts a… |
Sequence 12This is the time, says Montessori, "when the social man is created but has not yet reached full development"… |
Sequence 20The "Energies" of Infancy In the lecture that Montessori gave with the help of this second chart (Second… |
Sequence 6also" the mother with six children of different ages is far better off than the mother with one."… |
Sequence 12Figure 7. World Map Showing the Main Peninsulas of the World. Etymologies The teacher or children can research the stories or… |
Sequence 6reference but perhaps for an underlying need of absolute certainty and structure. Like early human beings, I am a hunter and… |
Sequence 14We consider mathematics from three points of view: arith- metic, algebra, geometry. Under the guidance of our experience with… |
Sequence 26We consider mathematics from three points of view: arith- metic, algebra, geometry. Under the guidance of our experience with… |
Sequence 34reference but perhaps for an underlying need of absolute certainty and structure. Like early human beings, I am a hunter and… |
Sequence 126Figure 7. World Map Showing the Main Peninsulas of the World. Etymologies The teacher or children can research the stories or… |
Sequence 144also" the mother with six children of different ages is far better off than the mother with one."… |
Sequence 210The "Energies" of Infancy In the lecture that Montessori gave with the help of this second chart (Second… |
Sequence 218This is the time, says Montessori, "when the social man is created but has not yet reached full development"… |
Sequence 234But this cosmic vision belonged not only to Maria Montessori; it belongs to the whole of our Montessori movement. It imparts a… |
Sequence 235Starting in the 1950s and continuing throughout the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s, AMI organized elementary study… |
Sequence 241of childhood." We realized that everything we were learning con- trasted strongly with our traditional state training… |
Sequence 2inquiry, and sharing ideas help us make predictions about ages and stages. We learn about the multitude of possible roles to… |
Sequence 5(Creating cohesion by stnlimenl with th~ads of developed WlLL) • individual • personal • parallel (by age 6 or 7) (… |
Sequence 3really mean? The dictionary says to explore is to search through with a view to making a discovery, to look into all parts of… |
Sequence 5One could see how little children, because of their inno- cence, can feel the need of God's presence in a purer and more… |
Sequence 3that he or she has the necessary capabilities to function, thrive, and contribute to the community? Can education "… |
Sequence 7The end result of an ill-prepared environment, lacking in compas- sion and understanding, is a deviated human being-a human… |
Sequence 13Obedience is not merely compliance. Forced obedience is not the same as true obedience. If we make the child behave by fear,… |
Sequence 7The educator must not imagine that he can prepare himself for his office merely by study, by becoming a man of culture. He… |
Sequence 7It is not surprising that Ms. Dwyer renamed her reading classic, originally entitled A Reading Scheme for English (assembled… |
Sequence 1To WoRK Is NoBLE, TO BEHOLD Is DIVINE by David Kahn When Montessori schools struggle with finances, admissions, and finding… |
Sequence 2Montessori speaks about to occur, we must take the next step. We must "give" this environment over to the… |
Sequence 8How much independence should an adolescent have? How do we help them "enter into society" while offering the… |
Sequence 2EDUCATEURS SANS FRONTIERES: LIVING OUT THE VISION by Charlene S. Trochta Charlene Trochta's review of her experience of… |
Sequence 4to forty years in the field; several were not long out of training. I looked forward to revisiting Montessori's legacy… |
Sequence 31career in psychology?" What is getting an A in an education course on classroom management going to have to do with… |
Sequence 1THE RIGHT USE OF INTELLIGENCE IN THE MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM by Kay Baker Kay Baker carefully summarizes Montessori… |
Sequence 1EIGHT MONTESSORI INSIGHTS by Angeline Stoll Lillard Here follows a small excerpt from Angeline Li/lard's new book… |
Sequence 2The model of the school in Montessori education is also different. Rather than being modeled on the factory, a Montessori… |
Sequence 5with how we know the very best learning takes place. Rather than memorize facts chosen by a faraway state legislative body,… |
Sequence 10ADOLESCENT: SLAVE TO THE PRE-COLLEGIATE OR INDEPENDENT LEARNER LOOKING AT THE WHOLE OF LIFE? But, having studied the… |
Sequence 17hensive formal education; the same themes that were lived out during the twelve-to-fifteen period developmentally now can be… |
Sequence 12CULTIVATING THE MONTESSORI SPIRIT THROUGH f AMILY LIFE by Gerard Leonard Looking back at his own childhood, Gerard Leonard… |
Sequence 12in every skill imaginable, sports team schedules for eight- and nine- year-olds that would put the best of us in the emergency… |
Sequence 4family and her close contact with Annie Besant, she became familiar with theosophical thought at an early age. Her intention… |
Sequence 2A diverse set of challenges faces the architect when trying to facilitate graciousness of movement for dozens, sometimes… |
Sequence 3and minute care as is given to the baby. ("Dr. Montessori's Third Lecture" 177) At adolescence we have… |
Sequence 7part of the Ruffing mystique. You only realize what has actually happened to you after you leave, but that's why Ruffing… |
Sequence 2SCIENCE STUDY FOR THE ERDKINDER: PHILOSOPHICAL CONSIDERATIONS by David Ayer David Ayer's reexamination of the… |
Sequence 7gram at which the students spent one day a week working on a small farm. Just when we finally admitted that we couldn't… |
Sequence 4gether, and play together, after a while you must meet each other's eyes over and over again and cannot hide behind masks… |
Sequence 8adolescents are being prepared for entry into society, it's not enough to have teachers-do you know what I mean? They… |
Sequence 1THE MONTESSORI POTENTIAL AT THE GROVE SCHOOL by Gena Engelfried This short article presents a composite of the… |
Sequence 10a child. Just as Frank Lloyd Wright declared that architecture must be a constant breaking out of the traditional structure of… |
Sequence 13goals must be the realization of the values of the human personality and development of mankind" (Education and Peace… |
Sequence 15weekly trips to Cuen tepee: The school is on the land. The work is daily. At Cuentepec, the students must strive for community… |
Sequence 18Anyone who works with adolescents knows that they have feel- ings, strong feelings, angry feelingsr loving feelings, but most… |
Sequence 4catered to. Cosmic education both deepens and narrows our view of the universe. The Great Lessons are outlines to give the… |
Sequence 2MORE PARENT INVOLVEMENT: REFINING p ARENT EDUCATION WITH AN EMPHASIS ON ASSISTANTS TO INFANCY by Judi Orion Starting from… |
Sequence 8conditions he cannot walk no matter how much liberty he's given to do so. On the other hand, the individual who cannot… |
Sequence 13The other fact is that this independence, this continuous conquest toward independent functioning-which gives us existence as… |
Sequence 4And that object became part of him for the day, or a certain part of the day, or for many years, or stretching cycles of… |
Sequence 4which ensures the purity of the sea-water and the purity of the air during the many millions of years is called life"… |
Sequence 8duction, soil analysis, seed ordering, planting, watering, weed- ing, harvesting, decisions about how much to preserve for our… |
Sequence 4of Mexico and California, today we are exploring new ways to refine our understanding of organisms and molecules at the micro… |
Sequence 4Rathunde, Kevin, & Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. "Middle School Students' Motivation and Quality of… |
Sequence 14experiences are so deeply felt is partly explained in the following quote from Abraham Maslow: "Perhaps [our]… |
Sequence 2THE SCHOOLS OUR CHILDREN DESERVE: HELPING PARENTS UNDERSTAND THE RATIONALE FOR ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION by Alfie Kohn A/fie… |
Sequence 36to isolate one element out of a complex, the isolated parts and their separate behaviors never explain the associated… |
Sequence 9puppet presentations, and Total Physical Response (TPR) to intro- duce vocabulary are all recommended. Art projects, food… |
Sequence 84A History of War and Peace "Enchance. Mademoiselle." An exercise in grace and courtesy, Paris, 1918… |
Sequence 93Cosmic Education for the Elemen- tary-aged child. Dr. Montessori researched the needs of the child under three, culminating… |
Sequence 13trees, and all life that emanates from the natural world (Montessori, From C!tildhood to Adolescence 19). This inner… |
Sequence 14complexities involved in the maintenance or the loss of life. One message that is apparent is that Life is fragile and… |