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Article
Small Town School Loans: How One School Utilized the Rural Development Fund
Publication: Public School Montessorian, vol. 19, no. 1
Date: Fall 2006
Pages: 15
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Article
AMI School Launches Somalian Outreach [Mater Amoris Montessori School, Ashton, MD]
Publication: AMI/USA News, vol. 6, no. 3
Date: Jun 1993
Pages: 2
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Language: English
Book
The Parent-Centered Early School: Highland Community School of Milwaukee
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
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Abstract/Notes: In May, 1991, the newly chosen Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent, Dr. Ho,vard Fuller, visited Highland Community School. His main question to parents and staff assembled to greet him was, "What lessons can we public school people learn from you?" Highland people had cogent ideas to pass on to him. This book is a more formal response in which I hope the hundreds of people who have continuously created Highland in its first twenty-five years speak through me in answer to him and to his colleagues elsewhere in public education. Highland began in late 1968, and by 1994 was one of only ten schools in the entire country to qualify for state-financed vouchers to independent urban schools. It is small: about seventy ethnically and economically diverse students aged two-and-a-half to ten years, three teachers and three assistants, a full-time executive director, and three part-time helpers, including a parent coordinator. One of the teachers doubles as principal. Annual expenditures per pupil are about $2,800. The curriculum is Montessori-based. The building is a century-old mansion. The school is governed by a nine-member parent board of directors and helped, primarily in fund-raising, by an advisory group of trustees. It is located in Milwaukee's Near West Side, an economically depressed and violent neighborhood (Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment, since razed, was only five blocks from the school). This is the story of a small school. Faced with the vastness of urban decay and its impact on educational institutions, the reader might question whether describing and analyzing this diminutive organization has any relevance to urban education. Despite differences between it and stereotypical urban public schools, however, it brings a message to American education much more important than its size seems to warrant. Its size is precisely the point. Change nucleates and incubates in small settings. Our huge society conditions us to think in terms of large numbers, sweeping change, vast federal programs. Government may be able to create contexts for change, but the changes themselves have to be brought about where individuals assemble to meet their mutual needs. Whether their relationships will be harmonious and productive, or acrimonious and dysfunctional, depends on how the organization is structured and what spirit has been breathed into it. This book fleshes out the organizational and attitudinal reasons that Highland works so well and what public education can learn from this small inner-city educational oasis. As a framework for the organization of this study, let us first review factors that research has revealed make a school effective.
Language: English
Published: New York, New York: Garland, 1997
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 978-1-315-05106-2
Series: Studies in Education and Culture , 10
Doctoral Dissertation
New Education and Alternative Schools in Taiwan: Educational Research from 1949 to 2005 Taking Special Account of Ten Alternative Schools
Asia, China, East Asia, Taiwan
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Abstract/Notes: Reviewed in Communications 2008/1 // In her dissertation she analyses the efforts of New Education in her home country and compares them to European reform approaches. In this context she analyses and evaluates a large amount of written documents and adds to her literary research especially for the ten alternative schools her own studies at these schools and interviews with the educationalists/teachers responsible. One of the analysed schools was a Montessori school, another one was a Waldorf school. The survey communicates interesting insights and findings about school development in an increasingly democratising Asian country that is scarcely considered in Germany.
Language: English
Published: Münster, Germany, 2005
Article
Teaching Permaculture in a School Garden: The Greensboro Montessori School
Publication: The Permaculture Activist, no. 53
Date: Fall 2004
Pages: 31-33
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Abstract/Notes: Greensboro, North Carolina.
Language: English
ISSN: 0897-7348
Article
Scuola speciale e scuola integrata [Special school and integrated school]
Publication: Vita dell'Infanzia (Opera Nazionale Montessori), vol. 24, no. 6
Date: 1975
Pages: 3-5
Children with disabilities, Inclusive education, Marziola Pignatari - Writings, Montessori method of education, Special education
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Language: Italian
ISSN: 0042-7241
Article
Seattle Adds Public Middle School Program [Meany Middle School]
Publication: Public School Montessorian, vol. 10, no. 4
Date: Summer 1998
Pages: 22
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Article
Montessori Week 1979 [Hampstead School; St. John's Woods School]
Publication: Montessori Quarterly, vol. 15, no. Supplement
Date: Jun 1980
Pages: 26
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Language: English
Article
Jaarverslag van de school der vereen. "Haagsche Montessori School". Sept '21-'22-'23
Available from: Stadsarchief Amsterdam (Amsterdam City Archives)
Publication: Montessori Opvoeding, vol. 7, no. 4
Date: Mar 22, 1924
Pages: 28-30
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Language: Dutch
Doctoral Dissertation (Ph.D.)
A Comparative Multi-Case Study of Teacher Roles in U.S. Montessori Preschool and Saudi Public Preschool
Available from: OhioLINK ETD Center
Americas, Asia, Early childhood care and education, Early childhood education, Middle East, Montessori method of education - Teachers, Montessori schools, North America, Public Montessori, Saudi Arabia, Teachers, United States of America
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Abstract/Notes: The purpose of this study was to compare and contrast teacher roles in two early childhood education settings—a U.S. Montessori preschool and a traditional Saudi public preschool—and to examine the philosophical, cultural, and theoretical influences on those roles. Cognitive constructivism, social constructivism, and multi-cultural theories were used as a research framework. Data was collected from the two teacher cases in their respective settings through classroom observations, in-depth interviews, and lesson plan/student assessment documents. The study’s findings showed that the roles of a U.S. Montessori preschool teacher and the roles of a Saudi traditional preschool teacher are generally much the same. Though the contexts and the surrounding national cultures and educational philosophies contrast significantly, the work of an early childhood teacher can be summarized in five categories which were consistent between data contexts: academic instruction, relationship with students and other adults, personal and professional development, behavioral management, and environmental preparation. Complementing this general role similarity between contexts, however, was the contrast in aspects of these roles between the two case teachers: the degrees of their attention to their roles, their efforts to perform these roles with excellence, and their application of their philosophies within their particular preschool settings and national cultures. Internationally, ECE programs need clarity about teachers’ responsibilities and a greater awareness of the cultural and philosophical influences on preschool teachers’ work.
Language: English
Published: Kent, Ohio, 2017