Abstract/Notes: Dr. Margaret "Peggy" Loeffler (1921-2016) was a true Montessori pioneer, someone who had a lasting impact on the American Montessori Society, on Montessori schools, and on teacher education programs. [...]years before MACTE (Montessori Accreditation Council for Teacher Education), this group met twice a year over a weekend to admit new programs, set standards, and so on. Characteristics of the Average Elementary Child's Developing Mathematical Mind-Harvey Hallenberg The Characteristics of the Child Six to Twelve Years Old and Their Implications for the Design of the Montessori Elementary Curriculum-no author designated Language Curriculum and Developmental Characteristics-no author designated Learning and Development: Language and Thought- Dottie Feldman Maria Montessori and Jean Piaget: A Comparative Study of the Six- to Nine-Year-Old Child-Dottie Feldman Montessori's View of the Characteristics of the Six- to Twelve-Year-Old-Eileen Buermann Montessori's View of Child Development-Lorna Terhune Physical Development from Age Six through Age Twelve-Joy Turner (Joy's paper began with a quote, on the title page, from an Emily Dickinson letter: "Could you tell me how to grow, or is it unconveyed, like melody or witchcraft?") Rationale and Overview of Arithmetic Work-Harvey Hallenberg Reading and Writing Instruction-Dottie Feldman Social and Personality Development in the Six- to Twelve-Year-Old-John Chattin-McNichols Suggestions: Basic Characteristics of a Montessori Program for 6- to 12-Year-Old Children-Anne McCarrick Visual Arts and Design-Harvey Hallenberg Working Paper-Margaret Loeffler One of the most important outcomes of this work was a sense that we were able to take charge of our own classrooms and teacher education programs. A current head of an AMS teacher education program said to me that the TRN was the best professional development she ever had as a Montessori educator. [...]her insistence on the agency of the classroom teacher and the classroom as a laboratory-ideas taken directly from Montessori's writings-have been formative for many teachers and teacher educators today.

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