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Montessori in the Classroom: A Teacher's Account of How Children Really Learn
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Montessori in the Classroom: A Teacher's Account of How Children Really Learn Paperback - 1997

by Lillard, Paula Polk

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What really happens inside a Montessori classroom? How do teachers teach? How do children learn? This fascinating day-by-day record in the year of the life of a Montessori classroom answers these questions by providing an illuminating and practical glimpse of the Montessori method in action.

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  • Title Montessori in the Classroom: A Teacher's Account of How Children Really Learn
  • Author Lillard, Paula Polk
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Revised edition
  • Condition UsedGood
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1997-08-19
  • Features Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4WILKM00JXU7
  • ISBN 9780805210873 / 0805210873
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.1 x 0.6 in (20.32 x 12.95 x 1.52 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Child development - United States, Teacher-student relationships - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97003290
  • Dewey Decimal Code 372.110

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From the publisher

PAULA POLK LILLARD is the head emerita and cofounder of the Forest Bluff School in Lake Bluff, Illinois. She is also the author of Montessori Today; Montessori, A Modern Approach, and Montessori from the Start (with Lynn Lillard Jessen).

From the jacket flap

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.

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"A moving book, and a deeply honest one. Lillard brings a compassionate intelligence to her task. . . . This is the book of a strong, wise, and sensitive teacher. It is a joy."
—from the foreword by Jerome Bruner, author of The Culture of Education and Research Professor of Psychology, New York University

"A clear account of how and why the method works. I hope as many parents and teachers as possible will read it."
—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

"Every teacher wishing to take a practical and philosophical look at Montessori teaching should read this book."
—David Kahn, Executive Director, North American Montessoi Teachers' Association (NAMTA)

"Through this diary parents and teachers witness the joyous explosion that can occur in the preschool experience."
Publishers Weekly

About the author

PAULA POLK LILLARD is the head emerita and cofounder of the Forest Bluff School in Lake Bluff, Illinois. She is also the author of Montessori Today; Montessori, A Modern Approach, and Montessori from the Start (with Lynn Lillard Jessen).