Montessori AMI Primary Guide: Discover Practical, Sensorial, Language and Mathematic Exercises
Open Education
Waldorf education
Educational philosophy Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School, Ghent, NY Michael Hall School, Forest Row, Sussex, UK Waldorf school in Ismaning, Bavaria Waldorf education, also known as Steiner education, is based on the educational philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy. Its educational style is holistic, intended to develop pupils' intellectual, artistic, and practical skills, with focus on imagination and creativity. Critics of Waldorf education (e.g. Growth in the number of accredited Waldorf schools from 1919 to 2020[13] Origins and history[edit] The first school based upon the ideas of Rudolf Steiner was opened in 1919 in response to a request from Emil Molt, owner and managing director of the Waldorf-Astoria Cigarette Company in Stuttgart, Germany. As the co-educational school also served children from outside the factory, it included children from a diverse social spectrum. Developmental approach[edit] Early childhood[edit] Elementary education[edit] Four temperaments[edit]
Michael Olaf
The Cape Town Open Education Declaration
What Is Your Learning Style?
What Is Your Learning Style? This quiz asks 24 questions and will take less than five minutes to complete. Try not to think too hard -- just go with your first thought when describing your daily activities and interests. By the end, you may have some new insights into your learning preferences. Editor's Note (2013): There is no scientific evidence, as of yet, that shows that people have specific, fixed learning styles or discrete intelligences, nor that students benefit when teachers target instruction to a specific learning style or intelligence.
The Montessori Goldmine
Open Monograph Press
Open Monograph Press Open Monograph Press is an open source software platform for managing the editorial workflow required to see monographs, edited volumes and, scholarly editions through internal and external review, editing, cataloguing, production, and publication. OMP can operate, as well, as a press website with catalog, distribution, and sales capacities. Among the many features of OMP is its ability to… Handle edited volumes, with different authors for each chapter;Involve editors, authors, reviewers, designers, indexers, and others in book production;See submission through multiple rounds of both internal and external reviews;Utilize industry standard ONIX for bookseller metadata requirements (e.g., Amazon);Create document libraries for submissions, recording contracts, permissions, etc.
My Montessori Journey: Free Downloads
One of the questions I get most frequently from parents of my students is, "Is s/he playing with the other children?" I realize that a major reason that many parents send their children to preschool is to prepare them for kindergarten. A large part of that preparedness is what we often refer to as "socialization." As I have mulled over this question and how I tend to respond to it, I was inspired to write this post about the many aspects of socialization. First of all, in the preschool classroom children learn how to follow directions given by adults who are not their parents. In our classroom we focus on the following four group time behaviors: 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) I have always had these same expectations for group time behavior. "Legs criss-cross, Legs criss-cross, Hands in your lap, Hands in your lap. This year for the first time I have added picture cards which correspond to our group behavior expectations. Download Picture prompts for line time behavior Whew!
