by Paul Epstein, PhD | Communication, Empowerment, Maria Montessori, Mixed Ages, Montessori Education, Montessori Family Life, Montessori Parenting, Practical Life, The International Montessori Council
The experience of authentic, unconditional love differs from romantic and other types of love. Unconditional love is not based on possessing or acquiring. When we know this love, we experience personal and universal peace. And while this love is observed and discussed repeatedly by the world’s great teachers, we seldom consider how this love also emanates […]
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by Christine Lowry | Empowerment, Maria Montessori, Mindfulness, Mixed Ages, Montessori students, Peace Education, The International Montessori Council
This was to be the last in a series of three articles on Advocacy. Instead, it is an article on the power of community and the passion and commitment that leads to action. This is true grassroots advocacy. MARCH FOR OUR LIVES March 24, 2018, Washington, DC and 800 other cities around the world Reflections: […]
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by Tim Seldin | Maria Montessori, MFA, The International Montessori Council
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by Tim Seldin | Maria Montessori, MFA, Montessori Education, The International Montessori Council
All children are born geniuses; however, 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly and inadvertently, ‘degeniused’ by grown-ups. This happens because human beings are born naked, helpless, and – though superbly equipped cerebrally – utterly lacking in experience, therefore utterly ignorant. Their delicate sensing equipment is, as yet, untried. Born with built-in hunger, thirst, curiosity, […]
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by Punum Bhatia Ph.D | Archived Issues / Montessori Leadership, Maria Montessori, Mixed Ages, Peace Education, The International Montessori Council
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time and one of the biggest challenges facing the international community today. Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate and Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town alerts us to this fact: “Climate change is the greatest human-induced crisis facing the world today. It is totally indiscriminate of […]
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by Tim Seldin Paul Epstein | Archived Issues / Tomorrow's Child, Maria Montessori, MFA, Montessori Education, Tomorrow's Child
In 1907, an Italian physician was invited to open a child-care facility for fifty preschool-aged children in a section of Rome that was avoided and neglected because of its oppressive poverty and crime. The children’s parents worked sixteen or more hours a day. In the...
by Tim Seldin | Archived Issues / Tomorrow's Child, Challenging Behaviors, Discipline, Emotionally Healthy Children, Empowerment, Grace and Courtesy, Maria Montessori, MFA, Mixed Ages, Montessori Family Life, Montessori Grandparenting, Montessori Parenting, Parenting on the Same Page, Peace Education, Tomorrow's Child
Many parents believe that the word discipline means to punish. In reality, it means to teach. In a Montessori-inspired home, parents are empathetic, caring, and respect children as real and separate human beings. However, children also need to develop a sense of...
by Tim Seldin | Maria Montessori, MFA, Montessori Parenting, The International Montessori Council, Video
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by Steve Hughes, MD | Adolescence, Brain Development, Early Adolescence (12-15), Emotional Intelligence (EQ), Later Adolescence (15-18), Lower Elementary (6-9), Maria Montessori, MFA, Montessori Education, Montessori Middle School, Montessori Secondary / High School, Montessori students, Parent Education, Planes of Development, Primary (3-6), Psychology, Research, Sensitive Periods, The International Montessori Council, Video
Dr. Steve Hughes, Neuro-psychologist and Brain Scientist, examines the basic assumptions of education today, and shows how an entirely different framework, first articulated by Dr. Maria Montessori over 100 years ago, conforms to what we now know about optimizing social, emotional, cognitive, and academic development.
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by Michael Dorer, EdD | Lower Elementary (6-9), Maria Montessori, Montessori Curriculum, Montessori Education, School Leadership, The International Montessori Council, Upper Elementary (9-12), Webcasts / IMC
Download PDF of slides v The Great Lessons provide the framework upon which all of the elementary Montessori curriculum depends. They are the source for all further studies in history, geography, science, language, mathematics, geometry, art, biology, music, and more. Literally, every single elementary lesson can be linked to these five Great Lessons. The Great […]
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by Dr. Maria Montessori | Maria Montessori, Montessori Administrators, Montessori Education, Montessori Teachers, School Leadership, The International Montessori Council
Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Dr. Maria Montessori’s Education for a New World (re-printed 1989 by Clio Press). Please note that there are some nuances and terms that might, today, be considered ‘politically incorrect.’ However, the spirit behind her words is clearly as relevant today as it was when she wrote it so […]
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by Punum Bhatia Ph.D | Maria Montessori, Montessori Education, The International Montessori Council
have been told I need to meet Raji teacher. Before I know it, an older woman ushers me into a small red car and we careen down the back alleys of Chennai, India. We arrive at a garden-level flat, where two grinning women in earthy silk saris and jasmine flowers dangling from their hair greet […]
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by Marc Seldin | Maria Montessori, MFA, Montessori Education, Montessori Family Life, Peace Education, The International Montessori Council
he four-year-old girls were good friends, but now they’re angry. One said something to the other, tempers flared, and a friendship is in jeopardy. Fortunately, the children are in a Montessori classroom. Montessori schools use many techniques for harmony, but in this classroom they have a peace rose. One little girl retrieves the flower from […]
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by Dr. Paul Czaja | Brain Development, Maria Montessori, MFA, Montessori Education, Montessori Parenting, Montessori students
hile driving away from my doctor’s office the other day I began to muse about the medical profession. My thinking soon led me to the surprising fact that Dr. Maria Montessori left her thriving and quite lucrative medical practice in Rome to become an impoverished, itinerant educator of young children. As you and I know, […]
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by John Long | Maria Montessori, MFA, Montessori Education, Montessori Graduates
couple of years ago full page advertisements appeared in glossy magazines featuring photos of famous people wearing khaki pants: “Humphrey Bogart wore khaki,” or “Ernest Hemingway wore khaki.” You get the idea. Although she was famous, Maria Montessori did not wear khaki. But that ad campaign came to mind recently when Barbara Walters interviewed Sergey […]
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by NewGate School | Maria Montessori, MFA, Montessori Education, Montessori Family Life, Montessori Parenting, Montessori students, Video
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by Lorna McGrath | Maria Montessori, MFA, Montessori Education, Webinars / MFA
Magda Gerber and Maria Montessori – What Do they Have in Common? Lorna McGrath – Magda Gerber and Maria Montessori: What Do they Have in Common?In this session find out what they had to say and how their observations and insights influence our practice with infants and young children today.
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by A. McAfee | Later Adolescence (15-18), Maria Montessori, MFA, Montessori Education, Montessori Graduates, Montessori Secondary / High School, Montessori students
here are strident disagreements these days over every aspect of American educational policy, except for one. Everyone thinks it would be great if we could better teach students how to innovate. So shouldn’t we be paying a great deal of attention to the educational method that produced, among others, Larry Page, Sergei Brin, Jeff Bezos, […]
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