Montessori in the classroom : a teacher's account of how children really learn / Paula Polk Lillard ; foreword by Jerome Bruner ; with a new introduction by the author.
Material type:
TextPublication details: New York : Schocken Books, c1997.Edition: Revised editionDescription: xxvii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0805210873
- 9780805210873
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's | 372.1102 L729 | Available | 33111008800282 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
What really happens inside a Montessori classroom? How do teachers teach? How do children learn? This fascinating day-by-day record of a year in the life of a Montessori classroom answers these questions by providing an illuminating glimpse of the Montessori method in action.
Revised edition of: Children learning. 1980.
Includes index.
Presents the day-by-day journal entries of a teacher at a Montessori school, showing how teachers teach and how students learn in these classrooms; covers such topics as class life, language, math, gifted children and children with disabilities, and personal development.
1. On education -- 2. Class life -- 3. Language -- 4. Mathematics -- 5. Special children -- 6. Personal developments -- Appendixes (A: Classroom schedules ; B: Classroom materials: room care, art, geography, science, cultural, personal, sensorial ; C: The language materials ; D: The math materials ; E: Key introductory Montessori math materials ; F: The three-period lesson of [Édouard] Seguin).