Research Catalog

Title

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.

Author

Lillard, Paula Polk.

Publication

New York : Schocken Books, ©1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Lillard, Paula Polk.

Description

xxvii, 266 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

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.

Subject

• Lillard, Paula Polk > Diaries
• Lillard, Paula Polk
• Kindergarten > United States
• Child development > United States
• Teacher-student relationships > United States
• Teachers > United States > Diaries
• Montessori method of education > United States
• Child development
• Kindergarten
• Montessori method of education
• Teacher-student relationships
• Teachers
• Montessori-Pädagogik
• Unterricht
• United States

Genre/Form

• Diary
• diaries.
• Diaries.
• Journaux intimes.

Note

• Rev. ed. of: Children learning. 1980.
• Includes index.

Contents

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).

ISBN

• 0805210873
• 9780805210873

LCCN

97003290

OCLC

• ocm36649220
• 36649220
• SCSB-8903222

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library