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The Great Work of the New Millennium
Author: Berry, Thomas
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Montessori Method,Work Attitudes,Physical Environment,Environmental Education,Western Civilization,Religious Factors,Child Development,Sustainability

Thomas Berry explores the meaning of work from the standpoint of human civilization responding to the call of the universe, replacing use and exploitation of nature with the wonder, rapport, and intimacy so important to the psychic balance of the developing human and natural harmony of life on Earth. The Great Work is defined as the work of thousands upon thousands of humans who recognize how to be present to the universe and reverse the tragic misuse of our natural environment. [Reprinted from &quot;The NAMTA Journal,&quot; 26,1 (2001 Winter): p156-167. This talk was presented at the NAMTA conference titled &quot;Celebrating Montessori's Great Work: Our Gift for the Future,&quot; Cleveland, Ohio, October 5-8, 2000.]
The Rio-Warsaw Connection: Encouraging Interculturalism among Students
Author: Dart, Hugo
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Intercultural Communication,Cultural Awareness,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Program Descriptions,Computer Mediated Communication,High School Students,Secondary School Teachers,Social Media

In this article Brazilian teacher, Hugo Dart, describes how he partnered with Polish teacher, Karolina Isio-Kurpinska, to set up an online community where students from different places could interact and make discoveries about each other's culture while practicing their English. The article discusses the ten-week project that was developed for students from Brazil and Poland and offers an evaluation of the results along with suggestions to make online intercultural projects a productive way to improve the teaching and learning of English.
Grace and Courtesy and Beyond
Author: Schaefer, Pat
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Behavior Standards,Prosocial Behavior,School Culture,Montessori Method,Altruism,Caring,Music Activities,Teaching Methods,Citizenship Education,Elementary School Students,Social Development

Taking up the cause of grace and courtesy across the planes of education, Pat Schaefer tells of the grace and courtesy of successive planes within a school culture and gives a glimpse of how the Montessori vision of a new society can look. Grace and courtesy go well beyond the practice of manners and into the topic of deep observation and appreciation of the other. Grace and courtesy are in the ability to focus on others, to pay attention to others, and to model a balanced behavior ideal of caring for the beauty and order of a space. Pat plays up the importance of rituals and gives examples of musical celebrations, Wisdom Day, the winter solstice, and &quot;flying up&quot; celebrations (the rite of passage from Children's House to the elementary) as being acts of attention to civility done for the sake of the community. [This talk was presented at the NAMTA conference titled &quot;Grace, Courtesy, and Civility Across the Planes,&quot; Portland, OR, March 13-16, 2014.]
Children: A Different Way of Being Christians
Author: Coulter, Patricia
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Christianity,Spiritual Development,Children,Parent Child Relationship,Teaching Methods,Biblical Literature

This article is placed at the end of this journal for the spiritual discussion of grace and courtesy: the child's relationship with God. It is chapter three of Patricia Coulter's new book,&quot; Like Leaven,&quot; which touches on the highest order of grace, one that comes through the child and is expanded to the parent's spirituality as documented by Patricia Coulter. Like the grace and courtesy lessons, joy and dignity from knowing God can only be lived but can never taught by direct instruction. [Reprinted from: Patricia Coulter, &quot;Like Leaven: Accompanying Children on Their Spiritual Journey,&quot; pp. 47-56. Copyright 2014 by Patricia Coulter, published by Amor Deus Publishing. Reprinted by permission.]
Epilogue: The Child and the Environment
Author: O'Shaughnessy, Molly
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Child Development,Environmental Influences,Personality,Montessori Method,Role,Environment,Sensory Experience,Parent Child Relationship,Outdoor Education,Security (Psychology),Toddlers,Nursery Schools,Elementary School Students,Preschool Children

Molly wrote this article thirteen years ago. It is a fitting counterpart to the preface of this publicaton because it predicts the role of nature across the planes of education even before the Erdkinder was tested. The article combines contemporary environmentalists with Montessori's seminal insight into the developmental impact of nature on the child's personality. [Reprinted from &quot;The NAMTA Journal&quot; 25,1 (2000, Winter): 119-143. This article is based on a talk presented at the Twenty-Third International Montessori Congress, Cancun, Mexico, July 23-26, 1999.]
Montessori Special Education and Nature's Playground
Author: Vaz, Nimal
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Montessori Method,Special Education,Special Needs Students,Environmental Education,Young Children,Childhood Interests,Outdoor Education,Mathematics,Language,Physical Environment,Child Development

Nimal Vaz takes us to the essentials of Montessori as an aid to life for all children, particularly children with special needs. She challenges teachers to truly provide experiences in nature: observing anthills, identifying bird nests, or taking an olfactory walk with a legally blind classmate. Finally, she demonstrates how a child's interest in practical life, math, language, sensorial, biology, botany, geology, and geography originates with direct experience in nature. [Reprinted from &quot;The NAMTA Journal,&quot; 34, 2 (2009, Spring): 141-157. This talk was delivered at the NAMTA conference titled &quot;Montessori Special Education II: A Contemporary Assessment,&quot; Atlanta, Georgia, January 22-25, 2009.]
Parents as Partners: Creating a Culture of Respect and Collaboration with Parents
Author: Andrews, Sarah Werner
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Partnerships in Education,Parent Role,Parent Participation,School Culture,Parent Teacher Cooperation,Teacher Attitudes,Montessori Schools,Montessori Method,Educational Philosophy,Student Behavior,Problem Solving

Parents as partners is a slight digression in title from the grace and courtesy theme of the journal, but it builds its argument around the concept of cooperative relations between the parents and the school. Sarah speaks of the perception of the teacher and parents as each being unique and particular to the life and personality of each child. The teacher must see the positive in the child and have a natural respect and dignity so both want to act for the greater good and, likewise, must treat the parents as wanting to make their own contribution to their child as part of the whole-child community. Sarah goes on to suggest that diverse views of the same child are one of the most valuable offerings of a school. These varying perspectives override the linear view that assumes one perspective, which can be one-dimensional, reductionist, and can lead to labeling. [This talk was presented at the NAMTA conference titled &quot;Grace, Courtesy, and Civility Across the Planes,&quot; Portland, OR, March 13-16, 2014.]
Nurturing the Respectful Community through Practical Life
Author: Bettmann, Joen
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Prosocial Behavior,Behavior Standards,Altruism,Childhood Attitudes,Child Development,Child Behavior,Creativity,Montessori Method,Young Children,Conservation (Environment),Spiritual Development,Caring,Teaching Methods,Learning Activities,Small Group Instruction,Repetition,Movement Education,Exercise

Joen Bettmann's depiction of practical life exercises as character-building reveals how caring, careful, and independent work leads to higher self-esteem, more concern for others, better understanding for academic learning, and a self-nurturing, respectful classroom community. Particular aspects of movement and silence exercises bring out what Joen calls the child's &quot;quiet soul,&quot; the contemplative and reflective side of life that brings peacefulness and a state of grace. [Excerpted from a presentation given at the NAMTA conference titled The &quot;Casa dei Bambini on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century,&quot; October 7-10, 1999, Arlington, VA. Reprinted from &quot;The NAMTA Journal&quot; 25,1 (Winter, 2000): 101-116.]
Living Grace and Courtesy in the Primary
Author: Soholt, Polli
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Preschool Children,Preschool Education,Early Childhood Education,Classroom Environment,Age Differences,Teacher Role,Role Models,Social Development,Skill Development,Prosocial Behavior,Behavior Standards,Montessori Method,Child Development,Teaching Methods,Interpersonal Competence

Polli Soholt looks at grace and courtesy from the 3-6 classroom perspective with clear theory explanations as they pertain to the larger classroom culture. She discusses the link between older and young children and the presence of the teacher as a model for grace and takes a brief look to neural science for proof of the existence of social interest in very young children. Polli asserts that social skills are integral to a sensitive period for social behaviors with other children and adults. She has very specific ideas about grace and courtesy presentations that aid the directress and the child in the learning process for conveying social activities. The article concludes with a concept of the &quot;little community,&quot; where individual work can be seen in the context of how it makes a contribution to the whole community, even at an early age. [This talk was presented at the NAMTA conference titled &quot;Grace, Courtesy, and Civility Across the Planes,&quot; Portland, OR, March 13-16, 2014.]
Grace and Courtesy across the Planes of Development
Author: Ludick, Pat
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Behavior Standards,Prosocial Behavior,Philosophy,Consciousness Raising,Interpersonal Relationship,Language Usage,Psychological Patterns,Montessori Schools,Child Development,Interaction,Young Children,Citizenship Education

Pat Ludick's commentary on grace and courtesy is established by a philosophical orientation to development: Grace is oriented to the life of the interior that is consciousness and being, and courtesy moves outward to daily living where civility reflects on success with human interactions. Pat's projected grace and courtesy across the planes is manifested in the language of respect, in the art of the seminar or exchange of opinions, in hospitality, social unity, independence, and in the expression of gratitude and persuasion. This upbeat narrative illuminates the psychological characteristics of grace and courtesy at every stage of formation and through adult civility of the fourth plane. [This talk was presented at the NAMTA conference titled &quot;Grace, Courtesy, and Civility Across the Planes,&quot; Portland, OR, March 13-16, 2014.]
The Ecology of the Mind
Author: Mazzetti, Luciano
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Montessori Method,Ecology,Natural Resources,Teaching Methods,Environmental Influences,Holistic Approach

Dr. Mazzetti's almost lyrical description of the role of encounters, both human and natural, suggests the terrible difficulty that would occur if the diversity of the natural environment, which is so essential to Montessori's prepared environment was lost. In principle, Dr. Mazzetti suggests that the child's encounter with the world needs deep exposure to a healthy natural world, spontaneous and purposeful, in order to make a contribution to saving the planet. [Reprinted from &quot;Education for the Twenty First Century: AMI International Study Conference Proceedings&quot; (July 30-August 4, 1988, Washington DC), 1989, Rochester, NY: AMI/USA, pages 46-48. Copyright © 2011 AMI/USA. Reprinted with permission.]
Teaching Nature: From Philosophy to Practice
Author: Hutchison, David
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teaching Methods,Holistic Approach,Interdisciplinary Approach,Citizenship Education,Educational Philosophy,Natural Resources,Outdoor Education,Activism,Social Responsibility,Montessori Method,Social Action,Role of Education

David Hutchison is an educator and ecologists. In this paper, he suggests how ecological vision can be translated into five aspects of educational practice: the interdisciplinary emphasis, eco-orientation to citizenship, inquiry learning, outdoors acclimatization, and social activism. These five levels of training constitute the holistic preparation for forging new levels of responsibility and sensibility for the natural world in the self-actualized adult. [Reprinted from &quot;The NAMTA Journal&quot; 28, 1 (2003, Winter): 207-218. This paper is adapted from a keynote address at the NAMTA conference titled &quot;Montessori Education for Human Development: The Child in the Natural World,&quot; in Chicago, IL October 31-November 3, 2002.
Sowing the Seeds of the Sciences: Our Gift to the Future
Author: Sillick, Audrey
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Montessori Method,Montessori Schools,Science Education,Biological Sciences,Biology,Elementary School Science,Natural Resources,Teaching Methods,Natural Sciences,Outdoor Education

Audrey Sillick's article, first printed in 1988, provides a theory base for Maria Montessori's foundational emphasis on the biological sciences and the sustainability of a living, organic planet Earth as part of the educational process &quot;of becoming more fully human.&quot; Ms. Sillick helps link primary-level biology with the special energy and cohesion of the Montessori view of Cosmic Education, the particular engagement of the senses that nature elicits, along with a celebration of the child's interactive process with nature, which, in fact, is our hope for the future. [This article is reprinted from &quot;The NAMTA Journal&quot; 13,2 (1988, Spring): 27-32.]
Idea Sharing: The Use of Read-Share-Act to Promote Extensive Reading
Author: Charumanee, Nisakorn
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Reading Habits,Reading Interests,Reading Instruction,Reading Improvement,Teaching Methods,Class Activities,Grade 10,Gifted,English (Second Language),English Instruction,Quasiexperimental Design,Questionnaires,Student Attitudes,Participant Satisfaction,Reading Skills,Foreign Countries

Nisakorn Charumanee believes that a reading teacher has an active role in cultivating reading culture or reading habit and in activating students to &quot;want&quot; to read. One way to do this is to integrate extensive reading into the classroom (Day and Bamford, 1998; Bamford and Day, 2004) where extensive reading can be enhanced if the teacher allows students to choose what they want to read and gives them a chance to share reading experiences (Harmer, 2007). Based on the proposed ideas, Charumanee decided to incorporate extensive reading as part of an existing reading course. An experiment involving specific extensive reading activities which would lead to an opportunity to read and share of what was read was designed. The technique of Read-Share-Act (RSA) was then developed and implemented as a means to promote extensive reading. Students' perceptions towards the use of RSA were studied as well as whether it enhanced their reading habit. In this article Charumanee shares how RSA was carried out and how successful it was as reflected from students' perspective.
Ecosystems in the Backyard: Preparing a Diverse Outdoor Environment for Primary (Ages Three to Six) Children
Author: Verschuur, Mary B.
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Montessori Method,Montessori Schools,Environmental Education,Outdoor Education,Primary Education,Young Children,Physical Environment,Ecology

Mary Verschuur chronicles the outdoor work of Lincoln Montessori School in prairie, forest, and indoor greenhouse environments, pointing out the application of the prepared environment principles to the natural world. Implicit to the design are opportunities for caring, including various practical life exercises with outdoor tools blended into each habitat. The repeating cycles of nature and its seasons are part of the yearly cycle of children in multi-age groups, adding to sensory richness and hands-on tasks. Lincoln Montessori School demonstrates how schools can model simple and well-thought-out solutions with minimum expense and maximum engagement. [Reprinted from &quot;The NAMTA Journal&quot; 28,1 (2003, Winter): 195-204.]
The House of Children. Lecture, Kodaikanal, 1944
Author: Montessori, Maria
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Montessori Method,Montessori Schools,Educational Environment,Physical Environment,Children,School Buildings,Building Design,Athletics,Playgrounds,Gardening,Cooperative Learning,Exercise

This article vividly describes the indoor and outdoor components of what Montessori calls Home Sweet Home. Her vision of a domestic Children's House contains many facets: rooms of varied space, beautiful flooring, gardens that educate and evoke collaboration, and places for year-round exercise. This is a definitive yet rare Montessori article that shows the profound overlap of both natural and man-made spaces in a house designed for children. [Copyright © 1944 Montessori-Pierson Publishing Company. NAMTA would like to express its gratitude to the Montessori-Pierson Publishing Company and the Maria Montessori Archives held at AMI for suggesting this lecture and making it available.]
Deepening Cosmic Education
Author: Leonard, Gerard
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Story Telling,Teaching Methods,Montessori Method,Holistic Approach,Consciousness Raising,Earth Science,Scientific Concepts,Astronomy,Elementary Education,Plants (Botany),Gardening,Outdoor Education,Natural Resources,Global Approach

This article is a special blend of research, theory, and practice, with clear insight into the origins of Cosmic Education and cosmic task, while recalling memories of student explorations in botany, in particular, episodes from Mr. Leonard's teaching. Mr. Leonard speaks of a storytelling curriculum that eloquently puts perspective into dimensions of Cosmic Education as philosophy, human unity, heroes of history, invention, gratitude, connections with nature, and much more. [Reprinted from &quot;The NAMTA Journal&quot; 31,2 (2006, Spring): 119-136. This talk was presented at the NAMTA conference titled &quot;Embracing the Challenge: Refining Montessori Practice,&quot; Baltimore, MD, November 10-13, 2005.]
Cosmic Education
Author: Stephenson, Margaret E.
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Elementary School Students,Holistic Approach,Educational Methods,Montessori Method,Child Development,Philosophy,Consciousness Raising,Social Development,Humanism,Natural Resources,Sensory Experience,Global Approach,Spiritual Development,Altruism

Margaret Stephenson begins with the reasoning elementary child as he answers questions about &quot;all things.&quot; She centers on the unity of knowledge, leading &quot;from the whole via the parts back to the whole.&quot; Imagination is enhanced to bring abstraction to an engaging and lofty motivation, and the elementary self is referred to as the &quot;atom of the spirit.&quot; Miss Stephenson moves from the early &quot;sensory&quot; exploration of the three to six prepared environment to the language of its parts, flowing through names, then communication of ideas, and finally the languages of world, invention, and human keys to understanding. [Reprinted from &quot;AMI Communications,&quot; n 1, 1993, pages 14-28. Copyright 2011 AMI/USA. Reprinted with permission.]
You Are Brilliant, and the Earth Is Hiring
Author: Hawken, Paul
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Speeches,Conservation (Environment),Poets,Positive Attitudes,College Graduates,Social Change,Activism,Consciousness Raising

Paul Hawken's commencement address presents a picture of the deterioration that is being wrought by human activity and motivates college graduates to join the invisible, ordinary masses who are already saving the planet with everyday processes. In a call to live and hope for something better, he stresses, in the language of a poet, how nature requires optimism, realism, and a penchant for reconstructing what has been lost as part of one's life legacy. [This commencement address to the Class of 2009 at University of Portland was reprinted by permission of the author.]
At Home in the Natural World
Author: Roberts, Jim
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Young Children,Outdoor Education,Natural Resources,Teaching Methods,Experiential Learning

Jim Roberts captures the challenges of walking with small groups of children under six, building confidence in bushwhacking trails, and walking on brambles. Mr. Roberts gives many clues as to indirect teaching moments while enjoying the ramble with an emphasis on opening the sensory pathways without the clutter of names, which can often give young children a false sense of intimacy with the natural world. [This article was reprinted from &quot;The NAMTA Quarterly&quot; 2,2 (1976): 9-17.]
History and Civility
Author: Schaefer, Larry
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: History,Montessori Method,Behavior Standards,Prosocial Behavior,Vocabulary,Citizenship,Civil Rights,Child Development,Developmental Stages

Larry Schaefer's history of civility is a succinct summary of the implicit and evolving definitions of civility over 2500 years of civilization. Beginning with the Romans and the root word &quot;civitas,&quot; meaning the rights and duties of citizenship, civility appears in classical literature as integral to the roots of democracy in the context of assembly. In the middle ages, civility referred to proper conduct and later became a courtly term then moved into the Renaissance as a focus on communities and the social celebration of human achievement. This researched overview of the history of civility constructs a broad definition of the term through historical phases and establishes civility as a universal human characteristic. [This talk was presented at the NAMTA conference titled &quot;Grace, Courtesy, and Civility Across the Planes,&quot; Portland, OR, March 13-16, 2014.]
Grace and Courtesy for the Whole School
Author: Cobb, Mary Lou
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Prosocial Behavior,Behavior Standards,Montessori Method,Interpersonal Competence,Language Usage,School Culture,Montessori Schools,Educational Environment,Student Behavior,Social Influences,Family Involvement

Mary Lou Cobb gives a framework from a very practical point of view, leaning on the aspects of grace and courtesy that are fundamental and arise out of a Montessori administrative point of view. Her examples are pragmatic, such as the grace and courtesy of a greeting, of movement, as a whole-school culture, and the right use of language. She calls for a consciously selected whole-school environment that creates a &quot;house for families.&quot; Mary Lou gives us a clear vision in direct terms of how to present a clear, spiritual message around an administrator's presence in a school to provide optimal transformational moments for the teachers. [This talk was presented at the NAMTA conference titled &quot;Grace and Courtesy: Civility for Life,&quot; Columbia, MD, October 9-12, 2014.]