1. Creating Positive Verbal Classrooms
There are times that a peer or teacher will say a vocabulary word that Dylan does not seem to know and he will ignore the speaker or just look at them and smile. I think he does this when he knows you are asking him something or talking about something but he is unfamiliar with the vocabulary you're using so he doesn't know what you're talking about. ...
Background/Introduction Section For the sake of the subject's confidentiality, I will refer to the child I observed as "Brandon"." I observed Brandon in one of the classrooms at Rainbow Kids Integral Preschool in Mira Mesa, San Diego. Brandon is five years old. The observation took place on Monday, ...
Four planes: Idea of "education" becomes an "aid to life" - a natural process all children undertake spontaneously, guided through ever evolving stages of development. Montessori had a profound respect for the child. She marveled at the constructive possibilities within the child, and hope for hu...