<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/81fce960-7712-454e-8db9-2ab750458e28/B726D3B8-E61A-4119-A1D5-BB0341C6CCB4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://montessoritraining.blogspot.com/2007/09/montessori-classroom-management.html" href="http://montessoritraining.blogspot.com/2007/09/montessori-classroom-management.html" style="font-size: 11px;">montessoritraining.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://montessoritraining.blogspot.com/2007/09/montessori-classroom-management.html"><H3 class="post-title entry-title"> <A href="http://montessoritraining.blogspot.com/2007/09/montessori-classroom-management.html">Montessori Classroom Management</A> </H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://montessoritraining.blogspot.com/2007/09/montessori-classroom-management.html"><P>Children are Inherently Good...</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://montessoritraining.blogspot.com/2007/09/montessori-classroom-management.html"><P>When I went back to my room after dismissal, my assistant was sitting at a desk, exhausted. “They were just plain naughty today”, she told me. I started to agree, but then, thought of what Dr. Montessori would say. I remembered that she used the term naughty to describe behavior that was immature rather than immoral or wrong. In a lecture in 1946, she had this to say about misbehavior in children:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://montessoritraining.blogspot.com/2007/09/montessori-classroom-management.html"><UL> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Children are not naughty by nature.</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">It is wrong treatment that makes them [children] naughty.</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Mental starvation causes naughtiness.</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Lack of activity causes naughtiness.</LI> </UL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://montessoritraining.blogspot.com/2007/09/montessori-classroom-management.html">They [misbehaviors] are merely his reactions to an environment that has become inadequate...But we do not notice that.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://montessoritraining.blogspot.com/2007/09/montessori-classroom-management.html">So, tomorrow is another day. We will joyfully greet each student, assuring him/her that we are<A href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_GhIiEF73oac/RuqrI5oEPgI/AAAAAAAAAF0/sN2mLQqQLT4/s1600-h/P7050344.JPG"><IMG border="0" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_GhIiEF73oac/RuqrI5oEPgI/AAAAAAAAAF0/sN2mLQqQLT4/s200/P7050344.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110084896601423362" /></A> glad they are in our classroom.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://montessoritraining.blogspot.com/2007/09/montessori-classroom-management.html">We will reflect on the good that’s happening in our Montessori classroom and not dwell on the negative.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B726D3B8-E61A-4119-A1D5-BB0341C6CCB4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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