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As educators it is important to recognize the importance of having childrens basic needs meet so that they can learn.


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Montessori:
-"The absorbent mind" - Maria Montessori believed that children absorb the things that they learn
The absorb what is going on by the materials they manipulate, that is why the materials used in "schools" is so critical.She started by watching children who were hungry and had little food take the white of bread and roll it into balls. Watch what children are doing and learn. Children have this learning itch and teachers need to provide the materials so that the child can learn what they need to be learning.
-Link that includes table with all this info http://education.ed.pacificu.edu/bailey/resources/courses/ECE/300models.html
-"follow the child"
-You will only find wooden and glass made materials within a Montessori classroom. No plastic
Montessori materials are very well made and adults have a hard time with them. Only high quality materials are used, the beauty of the material is very important as the esthetics's is very important too. They don't use plastic materials but oak and nice woods. As you manipulate the shapes and materials children will absorb knowledge example while children play with squares made of 4 - 5 - 6 sides they will learn about them and do mathematics. Children are also taught practical life ( ie shoes polishing) snack making ( ie cutting apples and cheese) there are auditory things ( ie bells - 2 sets that match sound wise and children will match the sound). ALL MONTESSORI MATERIALS ARE SELF CORRECTING. Use a specific montessori material for a specific learning. Children get materials that they have been showed how to use it. Children cannot use a montessori material until a teacher has showed the children how to use them. If children use the materials in a different way ( IE stacking the blocks of the cube) then a teacher will say "that is not what that material was designed for, please use them for what they were ment to be used).

SELF CORRECTING MANNER . when the materials are designed there is a sense what you will absorb from it. Construction and absorption - These materials are all designed for you to absorb a certain set of understanding. You will absorb what is there for you to absorb. That is different from the construction of understanding.

the student selects - the teacher instructs - students absorb. This is not a constructivist learning enviroment because the classroom learning is build for a specific learning. this construction of understanding is pre constructed and preset. Who is your playmates are also contructing. The materials are all the same all confined in the way they define open ended exploration.AMI uses the more ridged montessori 'rules' in how they are allowed to learn and experiment.
AMS model a lot more flexible in how the materials can be used. You can experiment and explore a little more.
Montessori classroom is student oriented as they can choose what concept ( materials) they can learn. BUT then manner that they can learn from that material is very teacher centered.

Reggio Emilia


*Teachers learn by closing observing the students ( how is the classroom going - teachers watch and then adapt the next day according to how the previous day went - very emergent curriculum)
* emergent curriculum
8 Documentation / reflection - refers to taking images of what students are doing sitting down with teacher and students and writing about it investigation of project and idea). Documentation helps students to reflect about their learning
Collaboration - there are community members that are there to work with children and help them understand their learning.
The reggio emilia learning is constructivist because the teacher looks at the student and adjusts according to where they believe that the student needs to go.

hundred languages of children - children learn and express their understanding in many different - multiple intelligences.
Creative Children Center - is a reggio school in beaverton

Piaget - cognitive constructivist - based on the information that i get from the environment i construct my understanding in my head
Vygotski - social constructivist


High/scope

* Plan - do - Review (review)
At the beginning of the day the teacher will ask the student what the plans to do. Then at the end of the day they will ask how the day went and what they learned from it.
* Teacher observe





-Mathematics is learned by working with beads in one model
-Practical life - polishing shoes, buttoning, snapping, zipping shirts, also snack making (cutting apples and cheese)
-All Montessori materials are self correcting (there is only one correct way to accomplish it therefore the child knows they did it correctly)
-AMI schools - materials are used only for the reason they were designed for whereas AMS schools will allow some freedom
-The student selects, the teacher instructs, and student absorbs
-Absorption Vs. Construction: It is determined what a child is supposed to learn before a material is made, and once a child manipulates these materials they are meant to absorb only what the material was designed for them to absorb
-In an AMI classroom students require a teacher to show them how to use a material before they can use it. The child chooses which material they want to work with which makes it appear to be student centered, but the manner in which they learn is through absorption rather than construction which makes it teacher centered.
-Therefore is the Montessori method truly constructivist?



Waldorf

No one can go and observe a waldorf classroom - not even parents.
fundamental principals - don't watch TV, don't wear brand name materials, materials used in the classroom are organic natural materials. Blocks for example are not all perfectly square - materials are designed for each student to bring their own creativity into it.
wood carving, play instruments, singing and dancing, eurythmia ( music and notion combined together for synergy)
In a waldorf classroom when do children start reading - when your body tells you that you are ready. You can read when your .incisor teeth emerge at about age 7. so there is no reading program that starts before age seven.
The core of the waldorf approach is anthroposoply - this is the fundamental principal of the waldorf schools
god intra-personal perspective


"approaching education from three points - using your hands, using your heart and your mind." Head-heart-hand children start learning in their hands - as they grow a little more they learn with their hearts and older children can learn with their heads. there are some similarities with Piaget's stages.
you do not buy a doll but you make it out of natural materials. You learn how to knit by making your wool.
Video : we provide the raw material for children's learning. children learn by doing. The teacher is there to guide them but not to raise consciousness what they are doing. A pre-consciousness.
same teacher for the whole elementary/middle school years - same teacher until 8th grade.
education - it is developmental in nature. In the beginning years they look at the outside ie animals and nature but as children's bodies are growing and changing they ( the children) will start to ask questions so these questions will be addressed. the video used the word balance and holding their own.

the first year is pre-schooling and then for 8 years you are with the same teacher. Then while moving into high school the model changes. Self directed, self structured. Teachers in a Waldorf school control the information, it is a teacher lead environment. i know better and you are not ready for that so you cannot go there yet. Approach is very interesting undercurrent. it is natural but underlines a very rigid.


Waldorf:
-Very closed and protective environment where no one is allowed to come in and observe
-Rudolf Steiner began a model that is emerged from his idea of what good education is
-The teachers use imitation and
-You are not allowed to wear brand names
-They ask parents not to allow children to watch television
-Natural materials are used for learning (you wouldn't find an action figure) all made from wood or fiber
-you must use your own creativity to manipulate the materials
-They play with instruments and do singing and dancing in combination (eurithmia), they do woodcarving, when certain incisors come in around age 7 then a child will be developmentally ready to learn to read
-Anthroposophy: provide an environment that consciously addresses the different developmental stages of childhood and that meets these stages with the appropriate curriculum and teaching style. The curriculum balances thinking, artistic expression and practical work in order to develop in the students the skills necessary to meet their tasks in life and to foster in each student a high degree of self-reliance, a conscious concern for nature and fellow human beings, and a desire to contribute to the betterment of the world.
-Anthroposophy is the fundamental principal of Waldorf schools
-The hands, heart, and mind
-There is a stress for students to create their own organic materials (in kindergarten they plant a tree, then later they use their wood to create other things)
-Waldorf movie:
children knitting, playing violins, playing basketball
"I've learned to be a whole person"
There is no formal instruction, it is a haven for the protection of childhood. The toys are not finished it is only suggestive
Children are communicating with the world
They are eager and present when entering the 1st grade (full of love)
The teachers stay with the same group of children for 8 years
By the 8th grade their feelings are their educators and the time to begin to learn with their minds begins
offer soul nourishment to take them to the next steps in their lives
They want them to look outside into the world of nature during the first 5 years, then they learn physiology when their bodies begin to change
Children will be ready to learn when nature says they are
They create their own text books as they learn
Every child can sing and create - the artist is not put on a pedestal
Knitting: eye and hand coordination, math by counting number of stitches
by watching television they learn everything by watching rather than doing it themselves
In book crafting their math comes into their hands
they mediate between subject math and what lives in students
well balanced, well rounded
-Children remain with the same teacher for 8 years, beginning at 1st grade
-self directed and self structured for students
-Teachers control the access to information, it is a teacher led environment (therefore not constructivist)
-George Lucas and Jennifer Aniston attended Waldorf schools
-Students tend to have a good interpersonal perspective

Reggio Emilia:
-Teachers learn by closely watching the students
-Teachers work as partners
-Emergent curriculum - day by day curriculum bird amusement park
-documentation is used to help parents and to help students reflect on their own learning
-collaboration - community members there to aid students in their understanding
-More constructivist learning environment that is available
-100 languages of children - languages not just "french" or "Spanish," as in the ways that children learn and express their feeling and understanding. (ie. art, movement)
-this resonates well with Howard gardener

Are waldof school constructivist?
not really because it is still teacher guided

are there any religious ties to Waldorf? I was wondering the same thing because they said they are searching for spiritual answers but they haven't mentioned anything about a religion. i looked it up and i couldn't find much. the closest i found was "Waldorf teachers, like their students, practice all different kinds of religion. No one is worshiping anything in the classroom,'' said educator George Hoffecker, a Waldorf supporter and director of charter services for the Twin Ridges Elementary District, near Nevada City. ``The PLANS group is taking educational activities and attaching their own spin to them.''On one side are Christian conservatives and secular humanists who have formed an unusual alliance -- People for Legal and Nonsectarian Schools (PLANS)" (source http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/10/30/MN110559.DTL )

High/Scope:
-Plan, Do, Review - the child plans their own curriculum for their day and later the teacher will review with the students to reflect on their activities (similar to documentation from Reggio Emilia)
-Teachers observe
-Key experiences - sharing your experiences in order for every child to have all of the experiences that they require (teachers would have a checklist ie music, time & classification, movement, etc.)
-teachers work with parents to reflect and make sure that the students are having these experiences
-High/Scope and Reggio Emilia are both preschool models
-It is a more constructivist approach













Anthroposphy is the desire to learn and the quest for spiritual answers.