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Sequence 8The adults soon realized that the children's response was indeed substantial; concentration and independence began to… |
Sequence 9The importance of language was always in our thoughts. The majority of the children spoke no English, and there were seven… |
Sequence 10disadvantaged children responded to the materials with unusual enthusiasm and respect. The order and beauty of the prepared… |
Sequence 11year the school is continuing to grow. Construction is now underway to provide an additional smaller classroom and kitchen.… |
Sequence 1LOW INCOME FAMILIES: A REALITY OF URBAN EDUCATION by Carol Hicks Ms. Hicks portrays a realistic picture of struggle and… |
Sequence 2With the move into the low income populations Montesserians will be able to address an oft voiced criticism of our work. Many… |
Sequence 3with or play with their children. Many families do not go out to muse- ums, zoos or on trips. Some students have never been on… |
Sequence 4tive to the diversity. A parent audience at our school may include parents who are concerned about the Hurried Child Syndrome… |
Sequence 1AN OVERVIEW OF THE HARVARD FAMILY RESEARCH PROJECT by Heather Weiss Important to urban education are family support and… |
Sequence 2such a way as to support and respect the family's role and prerogatives. Preliminary evaluation evidence suggests that… |
Sequence 3kinds of evidence of effectiveness required for school personnel, community spokespersons, and parents. 4. A series of case… |
Sequence 1School Profiles: A series of brief portrayals of Montessori urban programs viewed from a personal as well as institutional… |
Sequence 2offer to all the children of Milwaukee. MacDowell is today joined by a second public Montessori program - Greenfield… |
Sequence 3Milwaukee is prominent, along with several other cities which have fostered the growth of public Montessori schools. It is… |
Sequence 4• Children's House classes have full-time assistants. • Elementary classes have half-time assistants. • An art… |
Sequence 5Just as the understanding of the growth and development of the child in our complex society continues to build in the… |
Sequence 1CINCINNATI: DEVELOPING THE MONTESSORI MAGNET SCHOOL by Phyllis J. Williams Building and Grounds Crew North Avondale… |
Sequence 2is through our children. Peace through education in an environment that allows for mixed human experiences, facilitates the… |
Sequence 3• Montessori trained and certified teachers and administrators representing both the Association Montessori Internationale… |
Sequence 440 nation's first attempt to involve parents in the education deci- sion-making process. • Preschool Parents… |
Sequence 5computer training for the staff, makes available its plush conference room which is fully equipped for small workshops, and… |
Sequence 65. Page and Paragraph - The teacher writes questions regarding the story and the child writes the page a:Q.d para- graph… |
Sequence 1THE MAROTTA MONTESSORI SCHOOL: A CONCEPT DEDICATED TO URBAN RENEWAL by Alcillia Jones Clifford There is an urgent calling… |
Sequence 2• Elementary age: better scholastic placement, improved achievement • Adolescent age: lower rate of delinquency, higher rate… |
Sequence 3a time are scheduled to visit the mini-environment to work on areas that will help them adjust or normalize in their classroom… |
Sequence 4Future Focus The inner city has its own set of pressing problems which can only be solved through education. The alarming… |
Sequence 1RED CLOUD INDIAN SCHOOUS MONTESSORI PROGRAM by Joseph A. Fairbanks Red Cloud Indian School is located on the Pine Ridge… |
Sequence 2recommend it to the school and community on the Pine Ridge Reser- vation, and even to the state of South Dakota. The location… |
Sequence 3which gives me the ability to discern what is universal to learning and children. C I 49 |
Sequence 1STARTING AT BIRTH AND TEACHING NEW MOTHERS by J. Mc Vicker Hunt Dr. Hunt's presentation here is really two essays.… |
Sequence 2below). In cases where the food and care that infants receive is uncon- tingent with their strivings, as is the case in many… |
Sequence 3enrichment contingent with infant acts, but it was abortive because the person, then resident director, failed to keep the… |
Sequence 4with a two-month old" and used video-tapes to demonstrate that once an infant has repeatedly experienced a cooing… |
Sequence 5with familiar ones at first, but the proportion of unfamiliar patterns was to be increased until the child could imitate… |
Sequence 6on Piagetian tasks correlate + .87 with measures from standard IQ tests, this may well be a relatively accurate estimate of… |
Sequence 1THE MONTESSORI RESEARCH: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE by Mary Maher Boehnlein, Ph.D Introduction Leonardo da Vinci said,… |
Sequence 2with or opposed to the philosophy and beliefs of Montessori. This evidence, however, must be gathered according to the… |
Sequence 3literature. The most striking result of this review ofliterature is that even when the results were positive, the essence of… |
Sequence 44. A classroom not fully equipped with the full range of commercial and handmade materials, or a classroom in which the… |
Sequence 5mathematical achievement on the Standard school tests. Kimmins asked that he be allowed to administer a series of individual… |
Sequence 6lems, an interesting result occurred. Montessori children did not score higher than the other children until later in… |
Sequence 7Dame in 1969, tested the children at the conclusion of their Montes- sori preschool and found them superior on measures of… |
Sequence 8accelerated as a consequence of using the Montessori materials. Subjects were in their second year in three different… |
Sequence 9acquire more "school-type" behaviors. Most of these studies were done in the 1960's and were in Head… |
Sequence 10Montessori casa curriculum. The list was then equated with each age task on the Stanford-Binet intelligence scale. Children… |
Sequence 11seems to be a result of developmental influences alone or direct instruction. O'Hern's study in 1932 examined the… |
Sequence 12refute the early and continuing criticism that because Montessori preschool children work individually they are not developing… |
Sequence 13early diagnosis and therapy and early socialization. He states that the use of the Montessori method has helped handicapped… |
Sequence 14public school students. Public school children were more dependent upon the teacher. Baldridge (1981) studied two ways of… |
Sequence 15tions differed depending upon whether or not she was present when the behavior ocurred. Turner (1978) designed a test for… |
Sequence 16development, and the disadvantaged child; second, teacher training and teacher and teaching differences; and third, the… |
Sequence 17Boehnlein, Mary. (1984). A study of college/uruversity accredited Montessori teacher training programs. NAMTA Quarterly, 9, 49… |
Sequence 18McCormick, C. & Schnobich, J. (1969). IES Arrow-Dot performance in two Montessori preschools. Perceptual Motor Skills… |
Sequence 1CHILD-INITIATED ACTIVITY: HOW IMPORTANT IS IT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION? by Lawrence J. Schweinhart Child-initiated… |
Sequence 2As psychologists became involved in early childhood education in the 1960s, they developed early childhood curriculum models… |
Sequence 3the 1950s highly valued obedience and good manners in their chil- dren, while today's parents prefer their children to be… |
Sequence 4only 8% of the High/Scope and nursery school groups, as compared to 44% of the Direct-Instruction group. It is important to… |
Sequence 5research on teaching and childrearing has pointed to the superiority of an "authoritative" or "… |
Sequence 6child's entry level skills, then presents instruction along predeter- mined lines based on these skills. Interaction… |
Sequence 7Each of us has strengths and weaknesses, and "handicapping conditions" are simply a category of weaknesses.… |
Sequence 8five-year-olds are not ready for academic kindergartens and that developmental kindergartens should serve all children, not… |
Sequence 9variation in teacher backgrounds and interpretation of curriculum principles. Another problem is the dearth oflongitudinal… |
Sequence 108. For example, Diana Baumrind, "Current Patterns of Parental Authority:' Developmental Psychology Monograph,… |
Sequence 1BUILDING CORRELATIONS: COSMIC EDUCATION AND MORAL DEVELOPMENT Part One by David Kahn Looking at the classical Montessori… |
Sequence 2I be missed by one who polishes beads and hangs the children's art- but does not see beyond what the child is doing… |
Sequence 3But let us not diminish the prepared environment. The elemen- tary child has a kinship to the biological world which we bring… |
Sequence 4and discontinuity that renders such interventions incompatible with the more general aims of teachers and students. Even the… |
Sequence 5matter at that, whatever direction our imagination may take, it shall discover no empty place ... our imagination seems to be… |
Sequence 6Universe imparts, or perhaps evokes. a feeling orientation, an appre- ciation for life which is part training, and which… |
Sequence 7Then at last, God did make you. He gave you a body and a soul. He gave you an angel to look after you. He gave you a father… |
Sequence 8through his liturgy where the class composes songs, plays, artworks, etc. There is a culminating event-the children share… |
Sequence 9who is focused and aware of the child's need for personal uplift who is most able to touch the emotional life of the… |
Sequence 1MONTESSORI EDUCATION FOR MORAL DEVELOPMENT by John Bodi October, 1986 Spanning a hist,ory of both tra.ditional social… |
Sequence 2country's and state's histories. American leaders of the 19th century believed that no nation could survive, let… |
Sequence 3work that is being done, as servants help the master. Doing so, they will be witnesses to the unfolding of the human soul and… |
Sequence 4punishment or to obtain personal rewards. The moral judgments of a child this age are only related to the society's rules… |
Sequence 5reasons, those of importance to us (usually goal oriented). We make choices continually, have success or not, and go on to the… |
Sequence 6be able to operate successfully; these persons in conjunction with each other should form a coherent body of positive growth… |
Sequence 1ONE WORLD, ONE DRUM by Tom Sipes My first teaching assignment was in a Catholic seminary in East Africa, in the town of… |
Sequence 2credits include the percussion soundtrack to the movie Apocalypse Now and percussion consultant to the Smithsonian Institution… |
Sequence 3ent cultures. This experience can help to diminish prejudice and cultural stereotyping by establishing personal relationships… |
Sequence 1OF ROOTS AND WINGS by David Kahn A philosophical outlook on the parent's role in Montessm-i, educa- tion, this article… |
Sequence 2If we go back to the womb, we see the infant almost entirely human by six months. The baby can hear the mother's heart… |
Sequence 3Mother and infant communicate love through the interplay of the senses through taste, touch, smell, sight, sound, through the… |
Sequence 4hold you in the office it made me sad for the first time. I stopped thinking how happy you made us and felt for you having had… |
Sequence 5breast and look to the world out there. Montessori describes this so well. She calls it "an irresistible urge which… |
Sequence 6table in the deliberate and human way in which the child shows some- thing to us. When we show something to a child, we are… |
Sequence 7Total concentration is a dual process. There is the concentration of the child; lips pursed, back curved, eyes unrelentingly… |
Sequence 8children's learning better if they are generalists learning about the nitrogen cycle, or the change of the seasons, or… |
Sequence 9just intellectual ones. For example, the social relations of the school are like little prairie fires flaring up and dying… |
Sequence 10the house are handled by paid staff. The cleaning lady does the interi- or; a handyman may do the outside-responsible demands… |
Sequence 11love, patience, and individual bonding with the children needed to be there because the adolescent was in a sense… |
Sequence 12these are values of the home reinforced in the school setting. Inciden- tally, the Curriculum for Caring was conceived and… |
Sequence 1PARENT INVOLVEMENT IN A MONTESSORI PROGRAM: THE DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOL EXPERIENCE by Ana Maria Villegas and Paula Biwer The… |
Sequence 2Biwer Parent Night at Mitchell Montessori School 14 |
Sequence 3Review of the Literature There are different opinions as to what constitutes parent involve- ment in education. Gordon,… |
Sequence 4issues. Comer (1984) showed that this involvement reduces parents' misunderstanding about and distrust of school programs… |
Sequence 5instructional activities that will help children develop the learning-to- learn skills and behaviors associated with school… |
Sequence 6Parent Night at Mitchell School. 18 |
Sequence 7Classroom Observations Parents were invited to spend an hour observing in their child's classroom during the Fall… |