| For some observers of education, the fact that community issues are
always political and full of conflict leads them to… |
| REFERENCES
Alston, P., ed. The Best Interests of the Child: Reconciling Culture
and Human Rights. Florence, Italy:… |
| Hart, R., & L. Chawla. The Development of Children's Concern for
the Environment. Zeitschrift fur Umelweltpolitik… |
| Orr, D. W. Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a
Postmodern World. Albany: SUNY, 1992.
Piaget,J. TheGtild… |
| The NAMTA Journal 207 |
| Edward Warburton
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| MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES:
PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
by Edward Warburton
Givingduecredit toMontessori'sholisticeducation,… |
| Howard Gardner's work and the present state of his Theory of Multiple
Intelligences, which debunks traditional notions of… |
| What does the Meno tell us? The Meno tells us about Socrates' visit
to his friend Menon. On this visit, he has a… |
| Descartes' exclamation •1 think
therefore I am• leaves little space
in the classroom for the physical
world or the… |
| Locke is followed a century later by Kant, who combines Locke's
environmental influence with innate ideas of time and… |
| These philosophers believed that symbols, not simply nature or nur-
ture, were the sine qua non of how we come to know in this… |
| how we come to know, we just need to figure out the code. Did you hear
me mention children, emotional dimensions,… |
| PRESENT
My colleague, Bruce Torff at Hofstra University, likes to say that the
theory of multiple intelligences changes the… |
| it in his 1995 keynote address to this very group, "Ml validates what one
sees good teachers doing every day: looking… |
| methods on our income tax forms. Scientists, accountants, lawyers all
exemplify logical/ mathematical intelligence.
Ability… |
| Interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence combine to make up
the personal intelligences, the intelligence of the social… |
| this child showing me?" and you ask the child what he or she likes to
do. My nephew attends a Montessori preschool.… |
| misinterprets the theory, forc-
ing children into one-dimen-
sional tasks and misleading
labels, like "Naomi is a… |
| Answer: Intelligence-fair assessment engages the core components
of particular intelligences. The idea is to create rich… |
| encode (write) multiple forms of representation creates opportunities
for activating, developing, and refining our minds.
We… |
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| STORY UPON STORY
by Kathleen Allen
Kathleen Allen demonstrates what it means to be a II storyteller of the truth."… |
| We fire the imagination with stories,
carefully chosen, intriguingly told. As
our syllabus is the Universe, we can
go… |
| String is so important and so powerful thatit may have been the
unseen tool that allowed the human race to make leaps of… |
| follow the interests of the children and our own interests, too. We must
be readers, scholars, "storytellers of the… |
| woman in Europe. Eleanor looked to King Louis for help and
he offered his sixteen-year-old son, also Louis, to become her… |
| the wife of two kings and later was to become the mother of two
kings.
For some years, Eleanor and Henry were content. They… |
| This biographical piece also serves as modeling, showing the
children how a story of someone's life could be told, not… |
| As the teacher, you do not have to be
an expert, to know everything about
everything, but you must prepare
yourself. To pass… |
| to help match a child's interest to the right resource. Get the children
reading non-fiction as well as fiction, because… |
| THE MAGDEBURG EXPERIMENT
Jn the seventeenth century, a German engineer and scientist
named Otto von Guericke had been… |
| the plungers. Recreating this experiment in a simple form helps bring
the story to life ina way that just hearing it can'… |
| can you tell about how different a Latin-speaking mind was? We are so
used to a particular order in our sentences, called… |
| In Maria Montessori' s lifetime, the cosmic importance of the bacte-
ria was not known. We now know that the story of… |
| other bacteria, whether they are related or not. This is very
handy if certain bacteria need to become resistant to some… |
| It is important to help the children see how the span of our human
story relates to an ordinary lifetime. Here is a very short… |
| student's preferred form, such as a scrapbook, a story, an annotated
photo album, or a timeline.
Since writing these… |
| Conqueror's army. Some children have found they were related to
someone famous or even, in one case, to each other!
As… |
| two great-great-great-grandparents, and so on until you get to the
"eighteen greats" level, where you have… |
| Hakim, Joy. "Reading, Writing, and ... History." History Mat-
ters! (May 1996): 19 pars. 1 Dec. 1998 <… |
| MARIA MONTESSORI:
A LEARNER TAUGHT BY CHILDREN
by Robert G. Buckenmeyer
In 1915, Maria Montessori traveled to San Francisco… |
| phenomenon have more disas-
trous effects than in education.
Teachers have the best inten-
tions, but best intentions kill… |
| The attitude of the regular teacher is entirely different. She
teaches something. The results she wishes to obtain are results… |
| She characterizes the "old-
fashioned type of professor" as
having a "high desk upon a plat-
form… |
| Montessori provides her audience with the example of Koch, "the
discoverer of the bacterium of tuberculosis,"… |
| Montessori provides her audience with a character sketch of this
11 new teacher": The more such a teacher "… |
| After all, when adults become accus-
tomed to control the learning envi-
ronment through word means,
whether verbal or… |
| through verbal presentation, so they presumed that learning occurred
through external verbal transfer to the child as learner… |
| Montessori limits the "new" teacher to telling the child" only that which
is necessary and the… |
| birth of new life. "The personality of the mother," she observes, "is
characterized by this: with… |
| NAMTANEWS
MULTI-THEME CONFERENCES ATTRACT Gooo ATTENDANCE
Nearly 160 attended Discovering the Child's True Nature, NAMT… |
| Pedagogy for the Planet: From Childhood to Adolescence (Baltimore,
November 5-8) linked the adolescent quest for Erdkinder to… |
| culminate in a book featuring the model school design, principles of
Montessori architecture, and documentation of existing… |
| by Laurie Ewert-Kroeker and David Kahn in this Journal issue). He
reported on the project to the AMI Pedagogical Committee in… |
| ADMINISTRATORS' HANDBOOK STILL IN PROCESS
Those of you who were members in the 1997-98 membership year
were promised and… |
| CLASSIFIEDS
Arizona
Good Earth Montessori Charter
School is looking for an AMI trained
elementary teacher for the 1999-… |
| ence in a Montessori school. Our
new Program Manager will hold
an AMI diploma, a B.A., and have
five years teaching… |
| The Montessori Training Center
of St. Louis
Primary Teacher Training
(ages 3-6)
. authentic and contemporary
. achievable… |
| Montessori programs. We are lo-
cated in the small city ofEmeryville
on the east side of San Francisco
Bay.
Interested… |
| (Donna)/831-455-1546
(Adrii)
8:00 AM-3:00 PM.
MONTESSORI CHILDREN'S
HOUSE, a well-established San
Francisco preschool… |
| The Montessori Institute of San Diego
offers
AMI Primary Teacher Training Program
September to June
English and Spanish… |
| loyola college in maryland
Master's of Education (M.Ed.) In
Montessori E'4lcatlon Incorporating
AMI Teacher… |
| at your earliest convenience: 935
San Andres, Santa Barbara, CA
93101, phone: 805-966-7701, fax:
805-966-9612,
e-mail:… |
| Montessori Discovery School
seeks an AMS / AMI trained el-
ementary teacher to accept tp.e chal-
lenges of guiding an… |
| ~ Authentic, complete, contemporary
~ Montessori Teacher
Training
Assistants to In£ ancy: Ages 0-3
Director: Judith Orion… |
| proactive attitude in the areas of
fundraising and marketing; and
demonstrated leadership in Board
relations and fiscal… |
| ·~-:~'-r
23rd
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International Montessori Congress
CANCUN
MEXICO
23-26
JULY
1999
" Maria Montessori… |
| The
MONTESSORI INSTITUTE
OF ATLANTA
Primary Teacher Training Course
Certified by the
ASSOCIATION MONTESSORI INTERNATIONALE… |
| as well as personal and profes-
sional leave constitutes a competi-
tive benefits package.
If you are interested in a teach… |
| Ohio Montessori
Training Institute
at Computer Associates International Inc.,
Long Island NY
• AMI Primary Training ( ages… |
| Please forward a letter of inter-
est and a resume to AGBMS; 2020
East Camp McDonald Road; Mount
Prospect, IL 60056, or fax… |
| e Montessori Institute
OF MILWAUKEE, INC.
3195 S. Superior St. • Suite L 428 • Milwaukee, WI 53207
414-481-5050 • Fax 414-… |
| http:/ /www.msgl.org.
Please
send cover letter and resume to:
MSGL Search Committee, PO Box
2311, West Lafayette, IN 47996… |
| VMS is also accepting resumes
for an Educational Director. The
position entails directing a pri-
mary class in the mornings… |
| Competitive salary and benefits
are offered. Please send your re-
sume to: Michelle B. Murrain c / o
Charlotte Preparatory… |
| school and the positions offered.
We invite your telephone, written,
or email inquiry at:
Mark Fish, Executive Director… |
| teacher to start a new class. In ad-
dition, we are looking for an AMI
certified primary and/ or elemen-
tary teacher and a… |
| Ontario. Send resume to Rosa
Piccirillo, 300 Chesterton Road,
Rochester, New York 14626 or call
(716) 227-4830 or home (716… |
| around the school, eventually en-
compassing infancy to Erdkinder.
Immediate need for a primary
teacher. Contact: Anna Marie… |
| located on a gracious eight-acre
campus in Dallas, Texas.
We'd like to know more about
you if:
this advertisement… |
| Virginia
Teach in one of the best loca-
tions in the country! We are look-
ing for dynamic, energetic,
Montessori-certified… |
| 23507, 757-622-8174 or e-mail:
gms@norfolk.infi.net.
Washington
Established non-profit Mon-
tessori school seeks… |
| bonus offered. Currently have 8
classrooms taught by AMI-certi-
fied teachers and are ready to ex-
pand to meet the growing… |
| Heartland Community School,
River Falls, WI is seeking AMI-
trained applicants at all levels for
school serving children 2… |
| Tel:310-542-4097.
E-mail:
cedickerson@earthlink.net.
Canada
Having developed a curriculum
of richness and depth by… |
| Soon-to-be master degreed
teacher, experienced with: organic
farming, wetlands ecological res-
toration, community building… |
| DisplaySchool, Apocalypse
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| MONTESSORI MATERIALS
In Montessori schools the environment is the principal teacher. every piece of
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| The Children
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