M. Shannon Helfrich

Montessori Learning in the 21st Century (eBook, ePUB)

A Guide for Parents and Teachers

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book fills a growing demand for contemporary books on Montessori education and how it applies to childhood learning and education in the 21st Century. Dr. Maria Montessori developed her theories and methods for educating young people more than a hundred years ago. Today, much of Dr. Montessori's empirical findings on how the childhood brain develops and works has now been proven accurate by recent neurological/ psychological studies on childhood learning.

M. Shannon Helfrich shares many experiences from her nearly 40 years as a Montessori teacher and teacher's trainer to help parents and Montessori teachers understand the factors that influence understanding and learning for children throughout their years of development. In a lay person's terms, the author explains how the brain develops and why interaction with the environment is essential at specific points in a child's development. She includes diagrams and photographs throughout the book.

The author also links Montessori's findings with the latest neuropsychological research, weaving back and forth between the centuries, making a strong case for the ongoing viability of a Montessori education in this brave new world. Helfrich offers many anecdotes from classroom experiences with children that support these findings.

In the beginning of her book, Helfrich asserts that Dr. Montessori was one of the great thinkers in the 20th century who changed the understanding of a child's nature regardless of race, class or culture, and ultimately, an evolved understanding of our humanness. This book confirms Dr. Montessori's pivotal role in the history of childhood education internationally.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NewSage Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780939165612
• Artikelnr.: 38397971

Autorenporträt

M. Shannon Helfrich currently trains Montessori teachers at the International Training Center of Montessori Education of China in Hangzhou, China. Shannon is an AMI (Association Montessori Internationale) teacher trainer, examiner and consultant. She is known throughout the Montessori community as a practical, down to earth consultant for teachers in the classroom and for administrators of Montessori schools. Shannon currently divides her time between the training center in Hangzhou, China and her home in Tucson, AZ.

Shannon has been an AMI Montessori teacher since 1972. She worked in Montessori Children's House classrooms in Chicago, IL and Milwaukee, WI. She then founded two Montessori schools, one in Bismarck, ND and the other in Gresham, OR.

After almost ten years teaching children, Shannon discovered that her true passion was educating teachers. In 1989, Shannon completed the AMI Training of Trainers program and was appointed the Director of Training at the Montessori Education Center of Oregon, which soon became the Montessori Institute Northwest. In the ensuing twenty-two years, she has also directed courses at the Australia Montessori Teacher Education Foundation, helped found a training center in western Bangkok, Thailand and in Hangzhou, China, where she has been training Montessori teachers since 2007.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Chapter One: The Century of the Child
Chapter Two: The Relevance of Montessori in Modern Times
Chapter Three: The Big Picture of Child Development
Chapter Four: The Child's Mind
Chapter Five: Sensitive Periods fpr Building Intelligence
Chapter Six: Conquering Everest
Chapter Seven: Talk, Talk, Talk
Chapter Eight: Learning Through the Senses
Chapter Nine: From Chaos to Order
Chapter Ten: This Is My Family and My Home
Chapter Eleven: This Is My Montessori School
Chapter Twelve: The Future and Its Rewards
Endnotes
Bibliography
About the Author
Index