Do schools kill creativity? by Sir Ken Robinson, presented at 2006 TED conference.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Video: Will Wright
Game Designer Will Wright, Montessori graduate, talks about how his Montessori experience influenced his mega success in the field of video game design.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
You and Your Infant - Eating with Grace
By Krista Delaney
This can’t really be possible…….or can it?
Around six months of age, your child will progress from needing help to sit up to sitting up on his own. The use of his hands is continuing to become more coordinated each and every day. You have probably thought about or have already started to feed him some soft foods like cereal and vegetables. What an exciting time for both of you. Just think, new flavors and varieties of food for your child and a little more freedom for you. With a little bit of patience, you can begin teaching your child, who is now sitting up, to feed himself with you.
This can’t really be possible…….or can it?
Around six months of age, your child will progress from needing help to sit up to sitting up on his own. The use of his hands is continuing to become more coordinated each and every day. You have probably thought about or have already started to feed him some soft foods like cereal and vegetables. What an exciting time for both of you. Just think, new flavors and varieties of food for your child and a little more freedom for you. With a little bit of patience, you can begin teaching your child, who is now sitting up, to feed himself with you.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
The Great Input Deficit
How the Communication Revolution is Teaching our Children to Remain Silent
By: Wendy Calise, Educational Director, Countryside Montessori School
Click here to download the pdf file: The Great Input Deficit
Communicate [Latin communicare – to share, impart, partake]. What do these wordshave in common? They involve giving or receiving, an exchange between people. The cornerstone of communication, that skill advanced to its highest form by the human race alone.
But, is it possible that amidst the most advanced technology for communication in the history of mankind – in a time when one man in Chad can communicate simultaneously with an unlimited number of people in an unlimited number of places in an inordinately short period of time – is it possible in the midst of this time that our children are becoming less adept at communicating?
By: Wendy Calise, Educational Director, Countryside Montessori School
Click here to download the pdf file: The Great Input Deficit
Communicate [Latin communicare – to share, impart, partake]. What do these wordshave in common? They involve giving or receiving, an exchange between people. The cornerstone of communication, that skill advanced to its highest form by the human race alone.
But, is it possible that amidst the most advanced technology for communication in the history of mankind – in a time when one man in Chad can communicate simultaneously with an unlimited number of people in an unlimited number of places in an inordinately short period of time – is it possible in the midst of this time that our children are becoming less adept at communicating?
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Mentor Transcript: Primary (Role of the Child in Class Management)
Primary: Role of the Child in Class Management (November 10, 2009) ClassManagewChildren.pdf
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Mentor Transcripts: AYM (Transitions)
Ask a Mentor chat transcript from November 5, 2009.
AYM: Transitions
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Transitions.pdf
AYM: Transitions
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Transitions.pdf
Mentor Transcript: Elementary (Literature, poetry, journals)
Elementary: Literature, poetry, journals (November 5, 2009) Lit-Poetry-Journals.pdf
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Mentor Transcript: Primary (Engaging the Child)
Primary: Engaging the Child (November 3, 2009) EngagingChild.pdf
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Mentor Transcript: Elementary (Literature )
Elementary: Literature (October 29, 2009) LiteratureCont.pdf
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Mentor Transcript: Primary (Attention/Repetition)
Primary: Attention/Repetition (October 27, 2009) Challenge of Today's Child.pdf
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Mentor Transcript: Elementary (Literature )
Elementary: Literature (October 22, 2009) Literature 10_22.pdf
Saturday, October 10, 2009
What is Montessori?
By: Wendy Calise, Educational Director, Countryside Montessori School
Click here to download the pdf file: What is Montessori?
I have been asked many times over the course of my life "Just what is Montessori anyway? I mean, in a few words or less." Seldom have I found a situation more personally frustrating. What are the few words that define and describe Montessori? I surely have not found them. In fact after attending a Montessori school for 9 years, taking two years of graduate study to teach it, and performing the task of teacher for an additional 6 years I still do not fully comprehend and appreciate Montessori in its enormity and entirety.
Click here to download the pdf file: What is Montessori?
I have been asked many times over the course of my life "Just what is Montessori anyway? I mean, in a few words or less." Seldom have I found a situation more personally frustrating. What are the few words that define and describe Montessori? I surely have not found them. In fact after attending a Montessori school for 9 years, taking two years of graduate study to teach it, and performing the task of teacher for an additional 6 years I still do not fully comprehend and appreciate Montessori in its enormity and entirety.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
You Choose
Michael is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, “If I were any better, I would be twins!” He was a natural motivator.
If an employee was having a bad day, Michael was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation. Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Michael and asked him, “I don't get it! You can’t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?” Michael replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or...you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood.
If an employee was having a bad day, Michael was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation. Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Michael and asked him, “I don't get it! You can’t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?” Michael replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or...you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood.
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