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As a matter of fact, just by creating an environment, these teachers are actually directing their children’s learning. By limiting choices, teachers are directing their children’s learning. And by bringing children to circle and teaching them to sit f
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"Montessori school children were more likely to be involved in a positive shared play situation, and they performed at least as well as, and sometimes better, than children public schools,"
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It is a place full of interesting things to do, but also a place where you can take time out and just be quiet if you want to. It is somewhere where you can grow up knowing that you belong and that you are special.
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volutionary school, which we may call the "Saltatory" school, based on the idea that evolution frequently pursues a "leaping" or jumping course, if we may so express the idea. But no satisfactory explanation has been given of the fact that such sudden and
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Why do you deny poor children the school choice that rich suburbanites like us take for granted by not giving them school vouchers or unlimited access to charter schools?
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Later, as a stay-at-home father, he got involved part-time with Montessori schools in the area, eventually helping to found two new Montessori schools in Austin. Today he serves as part of a delegation representing Montessori education to the United Natio
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While other children you know are reading and writing with ease, adding and subtracting as though they have been doing it forever, your kid doesn't even seem to be able to write the alphabet properly. She's very happy at her Montessori, yes. But is she do
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Though the instructional method started by Italian educator Maria Montessori is normally associated with children, a growing number of assisted-living programs are using the basic tenets as another tool to help treat and care for older adults with dementi
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"We come in peace, but we'd also like you to know we also come with determination," she said. "We will continue to garner attention to our cause as long as the well-being of our students is a concern."
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West Side Montessori School on the Upper West Side and confidante of many a parent frustrated by the public school policy. “It’s ridiculous. They have the babies of the universe. When you have kids who are so young, of course they never can test as we
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Whoever said learning couldn't be fun has never set foot into The Greensboro Montessori School's 40-acre outdoor classroom.
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The Montessori method of education is basically a unique approach to learning. The preschool allows each child to learn spontaneously as they work independently with the many materials in the classroom. Students are educated in a child-house, which is set
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"Look over your child’s work sent home throughout the semester, and compare it to their report card. Talk with your child about both the work and report card. Talk to your spouse, and come up with a list of questions or comments for the teacher." "Bette
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Fairness is part of justice. Fair, with its roots in Old English words for lovely and pleasant, connotes that when things are done fairly the situation turns out pleasant for all involved. To help make things “ lovely”, though, takes a dispassionate a
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We wanted to start with kindergarten so we could make sure the students we educate would have a really strong foundation, that they learn to read well in their elementary years, that they learn to be creative, to enjoy learning for the sake of learning, n
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What do Montessori school methodologies have to do with Alzheimer's disease? A few progressive long term care facilities are using Montessori techniques with people living with dementia or Alzheimer's disease, and results are so positive that a trend may
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Even so, a class of Raintree Montessori School elementary students may have set it: a record for “Longest List of Hand-Written Math Problems on Adding Machine Tape.” “They’re all excited,” Nancy Haynes, their teacher, said as her students worked
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A sand mandala is a Buddhist tradition of using special sand to design pieces of art which are later placed into running water, and as the sand is washed away it takes with it sins.
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The American Montessori Society (AMS) has chosen the Thomas J. Dodd Center as the repository for its archival material.
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how temperance is a way to change the world. The study of his life can show us ways to strengthen our own character to avoid the excesses that would create a life of unhappiness.
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Students of Brilliant Star School perform a traditional Korean Drum dance number during the school's 3rd Annual International Day Parade celebration yesterday. (Jacqueline Hernandez) Brilliant Star Montessori celebrated its International Day yesterday by
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hrough our Montessori school, we train kids with the basic skills and making them confident to get adjusted to the bigger classrooms. Parents have become more demanding as they want us to prepare kids to face the informal interviews conducted by some scho
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. "Rub your finger over your eyes," he said. "That's what their wings feel like." Back in his cage, Jumanji partially spread his 2½ to 3 feet wings and resumed his sleeping position, upside down.
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Wilton Villager OnlineA graduate of the Tibetan Children's Village — a Montessori school founded by the Dalai Lama's sister for Tibetan orphan refugees — Choegyal and his family were forced out of Tibet by the Chinese government in 1959. He and Samten met in Australia, whe
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Create a contract with your kids. One non-negotiable rule: The child puts everything back in its place. When everything has a place, this gets easier, and becomes a lifelong discipline. So that's where we went wrong. But I still don't know what to do abou
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Montessori to reduce the environmental impact of its energy consumption and better align its electricity usage with its educational mission. "Green Power" is clean, renewable energy generated by regional wind farms
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Roberts credits it all back to the all-important lessons he took from the 4-year-olds at the Montessori preschool. "What I learned working in the preschool is you can't assume anything about kids; they're small little adults evolving from being kids," Rob
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Limit television viewing that includes excessive commercials for toys and other goodies. Avoid taking your children shopping if possible. If your child is tired or hungry, be careful to avoid situations that your child might not be able to handle.
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"This is now a private, parent-owned school,” Whitley said. “We are a non-profit organization so no one individual owns our school.”
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The second-grade students, also dressed as Pilgrims and Native Americans, held a Harvest Festival Tuesday, which included activities from the Pilgrims’ period.
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This holiday season, students at Canton Montessori School are making and collecting blankets to comfort those in need.
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