Montessori - Reflection On Quotations
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A 3 page paper that reacts and reflects on three quotations from Montessori: The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment. When children find something that interests them, they lose their instability. A piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration . . . Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Montessori - Three Essential Principals
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A 3 page paper that explains three of Montessori's essential elements: the absorbent mind, sensitive periods and unconscious, subconscious and conscious mind. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Montessori and Music: Intervening in Today’s Classroom
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An 8 page discussion of the value of music in academic achievement. This paper provides a brief overview of Montessori history and notes the observations of a teacher who has informally implemented the methods. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Montessori Education: The Role of the Teacher
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This is a 3 page paper which discusses the role of the teacher in a Montessori School. The bibliography has 3 sources.
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Montessori Educational Method and the Importance of Music Activities
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A 10 page discussion of the value of incorporating music activities into classroom activities. Reviews the theories of Maria Montessori and applies these theories to the contemporary classroom. Uses comparative observations in two mixed-age classrooms to conclude that students with regular exposure to activities such as singing games have a better command of language and can even overcome shyness. Uses the literature in cognitive development to explain these observations. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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Montessori Materials/ The Knobbed Cylinders
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A 5 page research paper that discusses one of the main materials from the standard Montessori classroom, the Knobbed Cylinders. The writer discusses the use of this material from several theoretical perspectives. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Montessori Mathematics Ages 3 To 6 :
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This 8 page paper discusses how Montessori mathematics takes the young child from concrete learning to abstract thinking in mathematics. The essay begins with Montessori's beliefs about the child under the age of 6, the materials presented to children and, in general, how the materials help the child make this transition. The principles for the materials are outlined. Two lesson plans are included: one that moves the child from concrete rods to understanding of the numerals and the other is the introduction of fractions. Additional comments further clarify how the Montessori materials help children make the all-important transition from the concrete to the abstract. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Montessori Relationship Between Discipline And Obedience
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A 6 page paper that begins by defining and explaining discipline and obedience according to the Montessori philosophy. The paper comments on the materials, creating a favorable and prepared environment, freedom and independence, ground rules, mixed ages and other aspects of the Montessori philosophy. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Montessori, Piaget And Logico-Mathematical Knowledge
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A 7 page paper that begins by reporting Piaget's definitions of three types of knowledge and explaining logico-mathematical knowledge. Some of Piaget's other ideas, like adaptation, are discussed. The essay then turns to a discussion of Montessori and subsequently compares the two theorists. Examples of Montessori exercises are provided with discussions about going from concrete to abstract in learning experiences. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Montessori, Piaget, Logico-Mathematical, Liebeck
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An 8 page paper that discusses a number of topics beginning with how math is found in a young child's daily life. The other sections include discussions on logico-mathematical knowledge, Montessori's ideas about math in a child's life, Piaget's stages of development, assimilation, accommodation and equilibrium, Liebeck's ELPS model. The relationships between these different topics are include din the discussions. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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Montessori/Children 6-9
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A 5 page research paper that addresses the nature of children aged 6 to 9 years of age. The writer summarizes the theories of Maria Montessori on this age group and argue that her ideas have largely been substantiated by psychologist Jean Piaget. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Montessori: Nurturing the Spirit
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A 3 page consideration of how the Montessori method nurtures a child’s spirit and, in turn, encourages learning. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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More Language Readings/Analyses
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A 5 page research paper that offers summation and analysis of 9 readings on bicultural education. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Mother's Perspective/Asperger Syndrome
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A 3 page book review on Echo Fling's book Eating An Artichoke, which is a personal journal of what it is like to raise a child who has Asperger Syndrome. The writer describes Asperger Syndrome and then focuses on the strategies devised by Fling to help her son. No additional sources cited.
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Motivating Adults Learners
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This 10 page paper considers the ways in which motivation is important and how it may be created and retained for adult learners. The paper explains teaching techniques that can be used and how they will motivate as well as other influencing factors such as self benefit. The bibliography cites 8 sources.
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Motivating Children
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7 pages in length. While children may be veritable sponges when it comes to absorbing information, new experiences and life skills, there is often a need to impart motivational tactics to encourage that desire to learn. The extent to which intrinsic and extrinsic techniques are appropriate and effective is both grand and far-reaching; that each approach serves to encourage desired behavior in quite opposite ways speaks to the varying nature of what ultimately motivates children. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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Motivating Teachers
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A 7 page paper that reports the three motivational theories that are typically used in education. The author suggests another theory that would better fit today's educational environment. The essay also offers several specific things that can easily be done to motivate teachers. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Motivations for Teaching Adolescents in High-Needs Schools
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A 4 page discussion of the impetus for teaching adolescents in high needs schools. This paper contends that teaching method can overcome the problems associated wit these schools. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Motivations to Become a Teacher
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A 4 page discussion of one student's motivations for becoming a teacher. The author outlines the events, observations, and experiences that persuaded this student to become a teacher. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Multi-Culturalism & Change / Major Issues for Teachers
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This 5 page paper discusses the impact of multi-culturalism and change in modern educational philosophy and practice. The thoughts and philosophies of two of western education's leading thinkers (John Dewey, Herbert Spencer) are referred to in terms of how their philosophies actually support issues of change and diversity. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Multicultural Classrooms and Differntiating Instruction Methods:
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This 5 page paper defines differential instruction and the multicultural classroom. Discussion includes why differntial instruction is preferable. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Multicultural Education
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A 3 page research paper/essay that discusses multicultural education—its goals, how they should be achieved, and how schools should transform to accommodate these goals. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Multicultural Education
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This 4 page paper begins by describing Sleeter and Grant's five approaches to multicultural education. The essay then discusses how to move forward from the Human Relations approach. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Multicultural Education
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5 pages in length. This paper examines an article on multicultural education and is a summarization of that article related to multicultural education that is then evaluated, explained and critiqued. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Multicultural Education - An Overview
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A 10 page paper that provides an overview of multicultural education. The paper begins with data about the student population in the U.S. The writer then discusses the lack of a universal definition of the topic, including sample definitions. Other topics discussed include approaches with an emphasis on the advantages of a multicultural literacy program. The writer comments on teacher competency to teach this type of curriculum. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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Multicultural Education And Technology
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A 10 page paper that includes these sections: abstract, stimulus statement and topic, teacher competence to teach multicultural education, what we know about technology and student achievement and technology in pre-service multicultural education classes, what we do not know and recommendations. There are many suppositions that make good sense about the value of technology when teaching multicultural lessons but there seems to be very little empirical evidence. Data are provided for studies where technology was used with ELL and disadvantaged students for math and writing. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Multicultural Education In The United States
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A 14 page paper. This paper explores recent literature focusing on multicultural education. One issue is exactly what multicultural education is. Another issue of concern is the multicultural competence of teachers. Different authors have discussed the lack of this competence and how teachers might become more competent in this topic. Some approaches towards multicultural education are discussed. In effect, this essay considers what is known about multicultural education in America and what is still not known. The essay ends with comments and recommendations for gaining the knowledge about what is not known. The paper also includes comments specific to the student's needs, such as personal opinions. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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Multicultural Instruction/Health & PE
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A 4 page research paper that discusses multicultural education, which is of the current trends that has had a tremendous impact on contemporary instruction and educational research. This exploration of this topic looks at the ways in which inclusion of multicultural education principles can benefit health and physical education instruction. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Multicultural Lit. and Teaching Diverse Classrooms
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A 4 page research paper/essay that discusses this topic. Multicultural and diverse literature offers students of all backgrounds an opportunity to develop cultural competency, as well as broader perspective on the world, society and history. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Multicultural Literature Based Literacy Program - Grade 2
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This 9 page paper includes an abstract. This essay begins with an introduction addressing the importance of literature in literacy development. The goals for the program are identified. The writer then lists several multicultural books for primary grades that could be used in the program. Each title includes a brief description of the story. The writer comments on the use of technology in a literacy program. The essay also includes assessment approaches and a sample literacy block schedule. The design of the classroom is also discussed. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Multicultural Literature In Early Childhood Education
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This 2.5 page paper discusses the benefits of using multicultural literature in the ECE classroom. The essay begins with the fact that children develop attitudes and opinions towards people from other cultures, nations, races very early in life. Exposure to different cultures through picture and early reader books can help change children's attitudes. The writer then discuses the dual role multicultural literature can play in the early childhood classroom. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Multiculturalism and Language Education
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A 4 page reflection essay on several texts that address this topic. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Multiculturalism And Literature In The Classroom
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This 9 page paper is written in four parts. The first part looks at the current trends in content area reading and content oriented literature, including the movement towards the requirement for the ability to discern between sources and critical literature review skills rather than just issues of comprehension. The second part fop the paper considers the way that technology may be used within a reading program. The third part of the paper examines the four approaches proposed by Banks in the way multicultural literature may be used in the classroom, looking at the contribution approach, the additive approach, the transformation approach and the decision making and social action approach. The last part of the paper outlines some ideas for the way multicultural literature may be used in the classroom. The bibliography cites 9 sources.
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Multiculturalism and the Curriculum
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A 5 page research paper that addresses several issues pertaining to the role of multiculturalism in America’s public schools. The writer responds to the following questions: How important is multiculturalism in the public school curriculum? How and to what extent should diversity be a curricular issue? Does multiculturalism serve to discredit the Western tradition? Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Multiple Intelligences & Gifted Students
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A 9 page research paper that examines literature, which focuses on the theory of multiple intelligences and gifted students in order to ascertain the issues associated with the need to identify giftedness via a broader template than the one offered by traditional testing, such as the paradigm offered in the concept of multiple intelligences. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Multisensory Reading - Wilson Reading Program
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This 8 page paper begins with a brief explanation of what the term 'multisensory' means. It then describes and explains the Wilson Reading System. The writer co moments on the fact that the Wilson program is based on the Orton-Gillingham program. The Lindamood™Phoneme Sequencing Program is discusses as a contrast to the Wilson and Orton-Gillingham, including an explanation of the processes used in the Lindamood-Bell programs. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Music And Cognitive Learning
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A 7 page paper. Advances in technology and research techniques have turned hypotheses into proven theories. There is a multitude of research that demonstrates that learning a musical instrument at a young age will enhance spatial reasoning and cognitive abilities. The research has especially addressed the relationship between music and math ability. This essay presents some of the research available. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Music Education in Primary School, Ages 5-7: A Review of Literature
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This 38 page paper provides an overview of music education and a review of the existing literature. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
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Music Education, Performance Skills
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A 3 page research paper that discusses the areas of performance instruction that should be covered by a musical educator in regards to ensemble performance. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Musical Education/Performance Anxiety
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A 14 page research paper that examines the topic of performance anxiety in music education. The writer argues that one of the many obligations of a music teacher is to aid students in learning to overcome and harness performance anxiety, turning this potential foe into a friend that will aid, rather than harm, the student musician. This examination of performance anxiety, first of all, looks at how this problem is defined, and then explores strategies and methodologies that a music teacher can employ that can aid students from a constructivist theoretical standpoint. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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My Educational Philosophy
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A 3 page essay in which the writer presents an example of an educational philosophy as this might pertain to elementary school pedagogy. The writer favors a constructivist approach to pedagogy, which is mediated on occasion by more traditional methods. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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My Ideal School System
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This 8 page paper offers a description of a new school system. The essay begins by discussing the hidden curriculum and how one author related the hidden curriculum to the social classes each school served. The writer also comments on the impossible demands placed on schools today and the fact that schools cannot solve the social problems of the society. The writer then identifies the new rules for "my school system" and discusses different aspects of the school, such as small class size and eliminating the administrivia teachers are expected to do. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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National Educational Technology Plan
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This 3 page paper discusses and reacts to two documents: the 2005 National Educational Technology Plan and Visions 2020.2: Student Views on Transforming Education and Training Through Advanced Technologies. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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National Standards/Fine Arts
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A 3 page research paper that, first of all, briefly outlines the general content of national standards addressing the fine arts: art education, dance, music and visual arts. Then the writer briefly discusses research on how to accomplish these goals. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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National Standards/Social Studies Performance
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A 6 page research paper that discusses how a teacher might answer questions that pertain to the national standards established for U.S. History. The writer uses the example of North Carolina. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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