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Doctoral Dissertation
The Role of Collaboration in Children's Understanding of Informational Texts
Available from: University of Illinois - IDEALS
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Abstract/Notes: This study investigated how children collaborated with their peers to read informational texts and complete a variety of reading-related tasks. The kinds of comprehension and monitoring strategies children employed in their reading were of particular interest, especially since they had little prior knowledge about the content of the curriculum--marine animals. Children worked in pairs on three different kinds of tasks: question-answering, error detection and math problem solving. Because they discussed the tasks with each other, their comprehension strategies were made more explicit than is often the case in studies based on individual responses to questions or group discussions. The study was conducted in two classrooms, one a combined third-fourth grade in a public school and the other a first through third grade classroom in a private, Montessori school. All of the tasks were part of the on-going curriculum and observations continued for approximately six months in each classroom. From the beginning, the classroom context was viewed as an important influence on children's task behaviors. Therefore, a careful description of the context--including classroom observations and teacher interviews--guided the analysis of children's behaviors. Extensive videotaped observations of children completing the three kinds of tasks were scored for a variety of cognitive and social interactions. Individual and pair progress in comprehension (accuracy and elaboration), monitoring and collaborative behaviors was determined by examining children's scores over time and with different partners. Children's discussions with their partners were also examined to determine what kinds of interactions facilitated acquisition of information from the texts. While the study was descriptive in nature, the quality of children's partnership interactions was found to influence children's learning and comprehension behaviors more than their reading or math ability. The findings also suggest that children in their early years of elementary school can acquire considerable information from expository texts and illustrate sophisticated comprehension and monitoring behaviors when given the opportunity to collaborate with their peers.
Language: English
Published: Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 2011
Article
Supporting Sensory-Sensitive Children in a Sensory-Intensive World
Available from: ProQuest
Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 29, no. 1
Date: Spring 2017
Pages: 34-39
Children with disabilities, Inclusive education, Sensory disorders in children, Sensory integration dysfunction in children
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Abstract/Notes: For American children with educational challenges, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (or DSM-5) (American Psychiatric Association, 2013), is critically important because inclusion of a disorder in the DSM-5 allows for treatment and support to be paid for by the child's public school district if it interferes with his or her educational achievement. Early parent observation of sensory differences is often a child's first reported sign of autism, occurring as early as 9-12 months of age (Murray-Slutsky & Paris, 2000; Baranek, 2002). * Sensory profiles can distinguish among children with autism, children with ADHD, and children without those diagnoses (Tomchek & Dunn, 2007; Yochman, Parush, & Ornoy, 2004). * Well-developed sensory integration has strong correlation with academic achievement and cognitive processing. Early detection and management of sensory challenges can tie to predicting later academic performance deficits (Parham, 1998; Koenig & Rudney, 2010). * In a review of studies examining links between SI and ADHD, sensory-motor abilities of children with ADHD were lower than those of a control group. Other literature examines connections with disorders ranging from fragile X syndrome, mood disorders, behavioral disorders, and nonverbal learning disabilities (NVLD) to physically based conditions, such as premature birth, prenatal drug exposure, cerebral palsy/spina bifida/ Down syndrome, language delay, and other learning disabilities, as well as environmentally caused deficits, including abuse, neglect, or trauma.
Language: English
ISSN: 1054-0040
Book Section
Mehrfach und verschiedenartig behinderte Kinder in der Montessori-Kleingruppentherapie [Children with multiple and different disabilities in Montessori small group therapy]
Book Title: Die Montessori-Pädagogik und das behinderte Kind: Referate und Ergebnisse des 18. Internationalen Montessori Kongresses (München, 4-8 Juli 1977) [The Montessori System and the Handicapped Child: Papers and Reports of the 18th International Montessori Congress (Munich, July 4-8, 1977)]
Pages: 304-307
Children with disabilities, Conferences, International Montessori Congress (18th, Munich, Germany, 4-8 July 1977), Montessori method of education
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Language: German
Published: München: Kindler, 1978
ISBN: 3-463-00716-9
Book Section
Die Indikation stationärer Verhaltenstherapie beim behinderten Kind [The indication of inpatient behavior therapy in disabled children]
Book Title: Die Montessori-Pädagogik und das behinderte Kind: Referate und Ergebnisse des 18. Internationalen Montessori Kongresses (München, 4-8 Juli 1977) [The Montessori System and the Handicapped Child: Papers and Reports of the 18th International Montessori Congress (Munich, July 4-8, 1977)]
Pages: 275-279
Children with disabilities, Conferences, International Montessori Congress (18th, Munich, Germany, 4-8 July 1977)
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Language: German
Published: München: Kindler, 1978
ISBN: 3-463-00716-9
Article
Kids Korner [poems by children]
Publication: The National Montessori Reporter, vol. 19, no. 3
Date: 1995
Pages: 6–7
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Language: English
Article
Social Integration of Children with Multiple and Various Handicaps in the Montessori School in Munich
Publication: Communications (Association Montessori Internationale, 195?-2008), vol. 1981, no. 4
Date: 1981
Children with disabilities, Europe, Germany, Inclusive education, Western Europe
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Language: English
ISSN: 0519-0959
Article
Enticement–Extending Writing in the Children's House
Publication: Forza Vitale!, vol. 21, no. 3
Date: 2002
Pages: 8–12
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Language: English
Doctoral Dissertation
Pilgrims and Guides: A Phenomenological Study of Montessori Teachers Guiding and Being Guided by Children in Public Montessori Schools
Available from: University of Maryland Libraries
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Abstract/Notes: This study explores the experiences of public school Montessori teachers. Max van Manen’s methodology for hermeneutic phenomenological research provides a framework for the study, and the philosophical writings of Gadamer, Abram, and Levinas guide the textual interpretations. Voices of curriculum theorists, in conversation with Maria Montessori’s words, reveal possibilities for understanding the experiences of Montessori public school teachers in the context of contemporary curriculum discourse. Six public school Montessori teachers engage with the researcher in a series of open-ended conversations. These elementary school teachers work with majority minority student populations in three different urban school districts. They range in age from mid-30s to early 60s, and have between 5 and 33 years of teaching experience in public Montessori schools. Their conversations illuminate the experience of teaching in public Montessori schools in three main themes. The teachers tell of being transformed and drawn-in to a way of life as they take Montessori training. They speak of the goodness of work that calls children to concentrate their energies and grow into active, caring and responsible people. Finally, they reflect on boundaries of difference encountered in the hallways and meeting places of public schools, and the shadows cast by state tests. The study suggests a need for Montessori teachers in public schools to participate in open-hearted conversations with parents, non-Montessori educators and administrators about what they are trying to do in their classrooms. It also reveals that decisions made by school administrators have a powerful effect on the ability of Montessorians to create engaging, child-centered learning environments. Finally, the study suggests a need for teachers, administrators, teacher-educators, and policy makers to embrace the questions and possibilities for creative growth inherent in tensions between the conflicting paradigms of adult-driven technical/scientific educational schema and the Montessori developmentally-based teaching style.
Language: English
Published: College Park, Maryland, 2007
Article
Öffentlicher Kongress für Kleinkinderziehung in Berlin [Public congress for the education of young children in Berlin]
Publication: Kindergarten, vol. 73
Date: 1932
Pages: 257-264
Europe, Germany, Western Europe
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Language: German
Article
Children and Theatre
Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 2, no. 4
Date: 1990
Pages: 26
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Language: English
ISSN: 1054-0040