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Sequence 180the period of schooling increased, leading to the development of more complex educational arrangements. The emergence of… |
Sequence 182perspective, education becomes a process of assisting human develop- ment, working coward full and whole construction. le… |
Sequence 189(AMI), established by Dr. Montessori in 1929, provides the most com- prehensive approach to teacher training. Other training… |
Sequence 7THE IMPORTANCE OF MONTESSORI 2000 New American Schools Development Corporation (NASDC) was founded in 199 l by Lamar… |
Sequence 8in the United States. With all educational levels currently operating in America, the year 2000 calls for the first… |
Sequence 12thousand Montessori private schools and one hundred public schools in seventy school districts. Montessori schools are… |
Sequence 32Academy will encourage training centers to adopt infant and adolescent teacher education programs under the same auspices as… |
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 59see that I have a responsibility to the students to help them to be prepared for various weather forms particularly with a… |
Sequence 96"We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intel- lect; we apprehend it just as much by… |
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 122develop far-reaching programs of study for all who wish to participate. In the following four sections are described two real… |
Sequence 144have shown, for instance, that the gains recent Head Start graduates show in scores on intelligence and socio-emotional tests… |
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 204have three primary and one low elementary classes 10 feed our own high elementary class- room. Beautiful school, warm… |
Sequence 206three primary and two elementary classes (ages 6-12). The new Head of School will have the exciting opportunity to implement… |
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 39What are the new frameworks and Montessori telling us? Mathematical reasoning, problem solving, communication, and connections… |
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 177years. Preferably small city mountain area. Please contact Lee Elion, 47 Beach Road, Tahvnanui, Nelson, NZ; phone (03) 348-… |
Sequence 9THE ECOLOGY OF TIIE MIND by Luciano Mazzetti The title of this lecture, "The Ecology of the Mind," comes… |
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 52Many responses are broad or vague, and as such leave a ve1y wide range for interpretation. Some may well be developmental… |
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 95multiplicity of forms (myths, legends, folklore, poems, nonfiction, short stories, novels) with self-confidence intact,… |
Sequence 98est power of the universe, with God. The word inspiration derives from the Latin spirare, "to breathe"; its… |
Sequence 150aristocrat who, in an act of tremendous condescen- sion, offers himself to his social inferior. It is an in- credible… |
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 50Life is a series of weanings-weaning from the womb, weaning from the breast, weaning from parents' bed or crib, weaning… |
Sequence 57FUTURE CHALLENGE: THE NATllRAL WORLD Outdoor experiences play a critical role in meeting the needs of the whole school and… |
Sequence 109Fun11ff C11,.1uL\'GE: PUBLIC SCHOOL MONTESSORI Montessori is still expanding in the public sector, with 10 to 15… |
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 205The North American Montessori Teachers' Association in cooperation with The Montessori Teacher Education Collaborative… |
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 65COMMITMENT TO PEACE by Renilde Montessori In the coming weeks, Renilde Montessori will assume duties as head of the… |
Sequence 107the abilities of children throughout the world. As early as 1910, she resigned her lectureship at the University of Rome,… |
Sequence 15unconscious, brings the reader to a full understanding of the power of the unconscious in learning, and of how emotional… |
Sequence 27Maria Montessori died in 1952, but her work continues. Today there are close to five thousand private and approximately two… |
Sequence 42NAMTANEWS FALL CONFERENCES SET RECORD Al;'TENDANCE This fall's conferences were the best ever with resounding suc… |
Sequence 19asked to play or sing the next line and create a variation based upon it. In both examples, the second "intelligence-… |
Sequence 20members of other societies, performances of the non-Western subjects improves dramatically. While being "culture-… |
Sequence 28mances on these two very different measures. The Stanford-Binet was administered by an independent psychometrician to 19 of… |
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 55Praxis refers to the different uses of words. Praxis involves aware- ness of different parts of speech, for example,open the… |
Sequence 79Montessori insists on constructing an environment for the child in which the child can be active, a prepared environment with… |
Sequence 150Greek, ·French, Latin, science, history. High school ends with the toughest exam in one's life. Without passing it, one… |
Sequence 164One other factor to mention briefly is the quality of parent- adolescent interaction that I saw and heard about after two… |
Sequence 225The "Blue Plane" of Maturity The plane of maturity, 18 to 24, corresponds more or less to university life,… |
Sequence 6ALL-DAY MONTESSORI: NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF THE EXPERIMENT by David Kahn The catch phrase "all-day Montessori&… |
Sequence 35In substance, they reflect the general attitude of 19th-cen- tury science, which felt justi- fied in proclaiming, in all… |
Sequence 1085. Manufactured Equipment and Play Structures The primary function of most manufactured play equipment is to support gross… |
Sequence 125element in playparks and adventure playgrounds. In new or redevel- oped school buildings, field facilities should be provided… |