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Philosophy and Variations to the Montessori Teaching Method

February 21st, 2012

The Montessori method is constantly changing and often reinterpreted. Dr. Montessori never trademarked the method or because they thought it best that they evolve and develop. However, the name stuck, and thousands of schools around the world practice what they see as the Montessori teaching. For this reason, a “Montessori” school mean many different things.

Some schools and teachers philosophy bind specifically and directly to the personality of Dr. Montessori, the search for authenticity in the statements of his writings, his colleagues and successors. Others believe it is best to allow the concepts to the current culture and local level, which means that the application of the method according to conventional thinking of the time and place where varied means to be affected it works. This interpretation is of the opinion that if the method that Dr. Montessori used the exact same way used today, he would not have the same legal effect because it is not today.

The third most common interpretations of the procedure is that the Montessori method reflects a kind of being that intrinsic, natural, and the influence of personality or culture. This interpretation of the development and growth of the proceedings on the original teachings of Dr. Montessori, but retains a degree of integrity and consistency with these teachings.

Parents who are more interested in the Montessori teaching methods should contact their local Montessori center, arrange a visit and an introduction to the school, attend a class activity and meet the educational staff.

The Future of Educational Technology and Education 3.0

February 21st, 2012

Think about what education might look like in the next decade, it is clear that the trends in technology so many of our students are behind him. We no longer live in an age of visible movement, when it comes to progress and innovation. Today is an era of exponential change. New technologies emerge and continue to improve every day in every corner of society.

Clarify the best and brightest in this new world a new paradigm and the improvement of education will be. Educational tools make it our time in the corner of the classroom is the mistake that could cost us our future. Throw masses of children with unequal access to ensure that we languish at the bottom of the global pool of employable workers in the coming decades.

The new toolkit

I was at an auction several years ago, and I noticed some old tools for woodworking, I thought I could use. For a few dollars, I could hang an assortment of hand tools, which may have been in the box, someone who for a generation or more. As the next decade, I have used these tools in my shop for a variety of projects, my projects to grow out of the old tools blunt. My creations made of wood has continued to improve both my skills and artistry. I quickly discovered that the use of improved tools to better craft. As any carpenter will tell you that require new tools new skills.

Woodworking is a metaphor for many students to shape and form. There is simply no good substitute for a cutting tool. If you want to build the best possible projects, you need the best tools possible. Think in terms of the next ten years for our country, we are very disappointed in our projects, if we fail to improve our tools.
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Action Research in Education – 10 Ways of Improving My Teaching Practice

February 21st, 2012

This list presents the key findings of a recent action research (AR) learned study on the development of curricula in a military college. I hope you will find some reasons to see you involved in AR.

First The four types of knowledge: experience, presentation, propositional, practical. I see them now more explicitly in the classroom, I am planning and construction at the university. I evaluate applications in knowledge on the basis of this framework. I am looking for ways to integrate all four in all subjects. I introduced the idea in our program, faculty development, because it told a synergy with our philosophy of education.

Second Unproductive exercise in communication: a useful set of techniques to address a formal and systematic problems. This is a difficult area for me as a communicator in general, to the time and effort and rework that comes so easily to me to spend. But we know that in such cases, you get a good price by using your strengths, not only to correct deficiencies. Made me aware of my communication methods and frameworks.

Third The profile of the development of leadership qualities: fascinating and useful model for the participation of organizations Torbert large-scale transformation through self-awareness and a sense of what is possible to predict and calibrate the friction points. I shall not be capable of it yet, but I can see how powerful they may be within my college, because it is a scaffolding around the organization of the work we already do with the transformation of individual leaders.
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