PREPARED ENVIRONMENT Montessori classrooms provide a prepared environment where children are free to respond to their natural tendency to work. The prepared environment offers the essential elements for optimal development. The key components comprise the children‚ teacher and physical surroundings including the specifically designed Montessori educational material.There are prepared environments for children at each successive developmental plane. These environments allow children to take responsibility
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Maria Montessori Maria Montessori was a famous doctor and teacher; she was the first woman to graduate from the University of Rome La Sapienza Medical School‚ and she was one of the first female physicians in Italy. Montessori worked with children for most of her life; teaching them‚ observing them‚ and taking care of them; her theory was: “Children teach themselves if only we will dedicate ourselves to the self-creating process of the child (Gordon and Brown 13-336).” She believed that
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Montessori introduced Exercises in Grace and Courtesy in reaction to the young child’s need for order. The child has a need to know and to absorb the social structures in order to be more at ease in his environment. Grace and Courtesy lessons give the child the vocabulary‚ actions‚ and steps required for him to build his awareness and responsiveness of those around him. This in turn gives the child a better sense of orientation in his social structure. The Primary Class is the perfect place to
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term that causes a great deal of confusion and some concern among many new Montessori Parents. Normalization is indeed not the best choice of words! It suggests that we are going to help children who are not normal to become “normal.” This is definitely not what Maria Montessori meant. Normalization is Montessori’s name for the process that takes place in Montessori classrooms around the world‚ through which young children learn to focus their intelligence‚ concentrate their energies for long periods
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In the book “How should we then live?”‚ Francis Schaeffer comments that Rome did not fall because of external forces‚ but it fell because it did not have a sufficient inward base. Thought‚ the external forces‚ such as the barbarians did bring Rome to ruins‚ I do agree that Rome did not have a sufficient inward base. The few reasons for Rome’s fall are as follow. Rome was always worshipping false gods and they were cruel. Rome did not believe in having an infinite God. Many of their emperors ruled
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How Should We Treat the Homeless? I think that to treat all homeless people in one certain way would be hard for me to do because there are many reasons for a person to be homeless‚ and some of them should be treated differently from others. I feel that the runaways and drug addicts don’t deserve as much as the unemployed and war veteran types. But I feel in my heart that all people with no homes‚ or lives for that matter‚ should get some sort of help to survive and get back on their feet so
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In this essay I intend to explore the relationship between obedience and discipline and how they are linked to the development of the will. I will identify the vital role that they have in the making of the whole person and just how essential they are to all areas of human development and integration. The terms discipline and obedience can have both negative and positive connotations. Traditionally the terms can convey negative images of punishment and of rules and regulations. They are commonly
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"From the most ancient times justice has been a two-part concept: virtue triumphs and vice is punished." Francis A. Schaeffer from How Should We Then Live. In advance to the establishment of this composition‚ ’virtue’ will be defined. Taken from Merriam-Webster.com‚ ’virtue’ is defined as a particular moral excellence‚ something that is keenly chosen in order to achieve. Ransom became terrified by the detail that he was a sacrifice to the Sorns by his two acquaintances‚ Weston and Devine‚ and consequently
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We Can But Should We? Healthcare is an ever-changing entity and technology is constantly advancing. This technology can be both good and bad and‚ while most technology is thought of as a good and positive advancement‚ some technology is not. Pros and cons must be weighed in an effort to determine what works and what does not with regard to healthcare technological advancements. As the advantages and disadvantages of Quick Response (QR) coding are weighed‚ one would be able to make a good‚ educated
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Traditionally it is felt that if we want to have disciplined children then we must exert some kind of control over them so that in the end they bow to our superior strength and adopt our way of acting. We do not expect self - discipline to arise spontaneously in children – we tend to think it is something that we need to impose on a child. Of course if we set limits for desired behaviour and we make sure the child stays rigidly within these limits then what we will see superficially is a child
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