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Q&A For Prospective Elementary Parents

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The Shadow Scholar: The man who writes your students' paper tells his story

 






 





I work at an online company that generates tens of thousands of dollars a month by creating original essays based on specific instructions provided by cheating students. I've worked there full time since 2004. On any day of the academic year, I am working on upward of 20 assignments.


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Mentor Transcript: Elementary (Math Work Every Day?, Conference Reports, Second Plane of Development) Transcript Date: November 18, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Primary (Cursive Writing, Toilet Learning, Teacher Meetings) Transcript Date: November 17, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Infant Community (Flatware Sources, Child That Cannot Walk, Rainy Day Activities, All Day Montessori) Transcript Date: November 17, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Elementary (Teacher Reading Assignments, Conflict Resolution, Admission Policy) Transcript Date: November 11, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Primary (Pencil Grip, Aggressive Child, Appeasing Parents) Transcript Date: November 10, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Infant Community (Bread Recipe, Baking during the Flu Season, Tips for Good Dough) Transcript Date: November 10, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Elementary (Work Journals, Class Meetings, Current Events) Transcript Date: November 4, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Infant Community (Toileting, Starting Baking, Crying at Carpool Time) Transcript Date: November 3, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Elementary (Independent Science Experiments, Research Writing) Transcript Date: October 28, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Primary (Unsettled Lunch Prep, How much Work on Shelves, Memorization Struggle, Parent Communication) Transcript Date: October 27, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Infant Community (Tantrums, A Good Day, Baking, Too Cold to Go Out) Transcript Date: October 27, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Elementary (American History, Literature, Grammar Boxes, Creating Productive Work Expectation, Teacher Mentoring) Transcript Date: October 21, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Primary (Trouble Learning SPL, Montessori Quote About Conservation, Grandparents’ Day, Disrespectful Behavior) Transcript Date: October 20, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Infant Community (Older Student Visits in the Class, Working with a Trained Assistant) Transcript Date: October 20, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Elementary (Tone Bars, Pin Maps, Vacations on School Days, Non-Montessori Child in Upper El) Transcript Date: October 14, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Infant Community (Struggling First Year – Class Management, Spanish Immersion) Transcript Date: October 13, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Elementary (Fighting Girls, Specialists, Going Out in Lower El, Primary Expectations, Socialization, Follow-up Work) Transcript Date: October 7, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Primary (Careless Movement, Disruptive Children, Artwork, On-line Training, Untrained Administrator) Transcript Date: October 6, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Infant Community (Toileting, Work Cycle, Parent Infant Class, Outdoor Environment, Conferences, Primary Transition) Transcript Date: October 6, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Toddler (Parent Volunteers in Class, Art Materials) Transcript Date: September 29, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Primary (Class With Incomplete Materials, Use of Large Wall Chalkboard, Role of Assistant) Transcript Date: September 29, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Elementary (Child with Behavior Difficulty, Taking Child with No Previous Elementary Experience) Transcript Date: September 23, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Primary (MA, All Day Montessori, Worksheets, Language Delays) Transcript Date: September 22, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Infant Community (Managing a Class of 15, Planning a Parent Infant Class) Transcript Date: September 22, 2010

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The Road to Potty Training is Paved with Good Intentions

By Wendy Calise

...Something that may surprise you is that learning about the toilet

starts first with simple awareness and can begin much earlier than most

realize. To start, babies can wear cloth diapers until they are

crawling, at which point they can then use underwear instead of

disposable diapers. Why? Because when a baby is wearing a cloth diaper,

the sensation of urination is something s/he can become aware of by

feeling the wetness...

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The Creativity Crisis

Again the genius of Montessori has been "discovered", or rather validated, by current research. Po Bronson, author of Nuture Shock, has written an article about the statistically measurable decline in creativity in American children over the last 50 years. Needless to say, a Montessori environment by nature holds the answers. I think that the article is good reading both as a staff exercise and for parents as another way to reveal just what it is we do so well.



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The All-Day, All-Year Montessori Community: A Place for Living at School

(At the conclusion of this article is a section that describes the process of 
bringing the parents along on this journey from the perspective of the 
administrative staff. See: “A Few Thoughts From an Administrative 
Perspective”)

By Michele Aspinall 
Winter 2005

I am pleased to have another opportunity to share this story with you. I don’t claim to have a terribly “unique” story, but I found that when I was struggling to develop the all-year program at Countryside, it encouraged me to hear of others going through the same thing. I am also quite proud to retell it again and again because the story is not mine but instead it is the children’s story...

Mentor Transcript: Elementary (Unsupervised Students, Enabling Independent Music Work, US History) Transcript Date: May 13, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Primary (Colored Pencils for Art, Assistant Training, Outdoor Work Environment, Age Appropriate Work) Transcript Date: May 11, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Toddler (Phys Ed Program, Rearranging and Beautifying Environment) Transcript Date: May 11, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Elementary (Math for 6th Graders, Untrained Head of School) Transcript Date: May 6, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Primary (Changing to All Day, Reading by Kindergarten, Kindergarten Enrichment) Transcript Date: May 4, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Toddler (Toilet Learning without Parents, Snack Process) Transcript Date: May 4, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Elementary (Journals vs. Loose Papers, Care of Environment, Daily Math Assignments) Transcript Date: April 29, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Primary (Age Appropriate Work, Recalcitrant Child, Inspiring Bell Work) Transcript Date: April 27, 2010

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Mentor Transcript: Toddler (Material Rotation, Unfocused Child, Observing Child, Manipulatives) Transcript Date: April 27, 2010

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Teaching Today's Elementary Child: Is Anything New?

By Wendy Calise

...Think for a moment when the last time was that you heard the word mettle. The word itself seems almost to be one of the past. If the language has fallen out of use, what does that mean for the idea? Has mettle become obsolete? As I consider the challenges of the future, it seems unlikely. Yet the development of sturdy constitution in our youth is waning, and the children will not likely be the better for it...

...The father did his work; his son did his. I do not suffer the illusion that we can or should recreate one culture in place of another or somehow go back in time. But there is much to be learned. These children were astoundingly competent. They could do things. I wondered about their counterparts in America...

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