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Montessori Method � PAGE �8� The Montessori Method Judge Edward Singleton Instruction Television College Prof. Eileen Roth PSY 41 - Lifespan Psychology July 7‚ 2007 � When Dr. Maria Montessori became the director of a school for mentally-handicapped children‚ she exposed them to an environment that was highly conducive to learning. After two years‚ the children‚ who had formerly been labeled _uneducable_‚ were able to pass a test with normal children. This dramatic success led her to study
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‘normal young humans’. This appeared to be the same globally‚ with all children no matter where they were born geographically‚ or what culture they belonged to. Sensitive periods are transitory periods of time in a child’s life when he is especially sensitive to certain aspects of the environment. They appear through patterns of repeated behaviour. The Sensitive Periods are not linear‚ i.e.‚ they do not follow one after the other; some overlap and some are continuous. Montessori education was
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Introduction to Statistics (Measures of Central Tendency) Central Tendency: In a representative sample‚ the value of a series of data have a tendency to cluster around a certain point usually at the center of the series is usually called central tendency and its numerical measures are called the measures of central tendency or measures of location. Different Measures of Central Tendency: The following are the important measures of central tendency which are generally used in business: Arithmetic
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Describe what Montessori meant by ‘New Education’. As we know of our world today‚ there has been lots of development in technology and in its economy‚ progressed. However‚ despite all these good progresses‚ man still do not seem to be able to live in harmony‚ both with himself and the world around him. There have been two World Wars‚ which have been disastrous and still a lot of cruelty‚ warfare and poverty prevailing in the world. Man is still facing conflict and sufferings in the modern world
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Preventing Murderous Tendencies in Children Harvard clinical psychologist Martha Stout wrote in her book‚ The Sociopath Next Door‚ that “a shocking 4 percent of ordinary people – one in twenty-five – has an often undetected mental disorder… one in twenty-five everyday Americans‚ therefore‚ is secretly a sociopath” (12). Stout‚ along with other psychologists‚ argues that the development of sociopathy is due half to genetics and half to non-genetic influences. We blame serial killers and murderers
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Dr Montessori loved mathematics. In Italy in the 1880 she chose to attend a boy’s technical school just so she could study mathematics. This love of mathematics is very visible in the wonderful materials she designed so young children could share her enthusiasm. In the Montessori view the ‘mathematical mind’ is a manifestation of several human tendencies. “Humans are driven to explore and to investigate their environment. To this effectively‚ they need to orient themselves in an ordered way” (Feez
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taught are visual (seeing)‚ auditory (hearing)‚ olfactory (smelling)‚ gustatory (tasting)‚ and tactile (touching). Most of the Montessori sensorial activities revolve around these senses. Everything humans do involves using one or more senses. It is through the senses that infants discover the world. Without one’s senses‚ the brain would be a prisoner to the skull. Humans experience these sensations through interactions with the environment; interpreting the meaning of these sensations for actions
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especially interested in mathematics. Rather than find them boring and absurd‚ they find them interesting and absorbing. It is a fact that most children in our Montessori schools manage to achieve great enthusiasm while working with mathematics. Is the preparation of their minds that allows them to reach this pleasure." Maria Montessori‚ London Lectures‚ 1946‚ p 41 Mathematics has always been a difficult subject for students. Many children have developed phobias and barriers towards mathematics
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not only as an educator. She handles disputes‚ without judging. She offers support when a child lacks confidence in himself. “Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.” Maria Montessori. “Free the child’s potential‚ and you will transform him into the world”. Maria Montessori. That’s important not only for the child but the teacher as well. The teacher’s role is to offer support and encouragement in order for that individual to have trust in themselves‚ and confidence
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