CMTE/NY * Programs

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INFANT AND TODDLER PROGRAM

REQUIRED READINGS: To be read before the training program. (Assignments from these books will be given during the course.)

Shelly Q. Montanaro, MD: Understanding the Human Being

Maria Montessori: The Absorbent Mind

The Secret of Childhood

Paula Lillard and

Lynn Lillard Jensen: Montessori From the Start

Paula Lillard: Maria Montessori – A Modern Approach

RECOMMENDED READINGS: Not necessary to purchase before training program.

Louise Kaplan, Ph.D.: Oneness and Separateness: From Infant to Individual

Maria Montessori: The Formation of Man

What You Should Know About Your Child

Rita Kramer: Maria Montessori: A Biography

Aline Wolf: Nurturing the Spirit

Paula Lillard: Montessori Today: A Comprehensive Approach to

Education from Birth to Adulthood

Alfie Kohn: Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and

Punishments to Love and Reason

Lise Eliot, Ph.D: What’s Going on in There: How the Brain and Mind Develop

in the First Five Years of Life

EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM

REQUIRED READINGS: To be read before the training program in the following order.

Assignments on these books will be due during the first week of the summer program.

Maria Montessori: The Discovery of the Child

The Secret of Childhood

The Absorbent Mind

Paula Lillard: Maria Montessori--A Modern Approach

E.M. Standing: Maria Montessori, Her Life & Work

Rita Kramer: Maria Montessori: A Biography

Warren R. Bentzen: Seeing Young Children: A Guide to Observing and

Recording Behavior

Aline Wolf: Nurturing the Spirit

*Developmental Profiles Edition 4 (2002) by K. Eileen Allen & Lynn R. Moratz is recommended as a resource for

Child Development

RECOMMENDED READINGS:

Joseph Chilton Pearce: The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit (2002)

Rudolf Dreikurs: Children: The Challenge

David Elkind: The Hurried Child

Jane Healy: Your Child's Growing Mind: Brain Development and Learning

from Birth to Adolescence (2004)

Paula Polk Lillard &

Lynn Lillard Jessen: Montessori from the Start: The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three

Jane Nelson Positive Discipline or Positive Discipline for Preschoolers

Adele Faber: How to Talk So Kids Will Listen And Listen So Kids Will Talk

Margaret Loeffler, Ph.D.: Montessori in Contemporary American Culture

John Chattin McNichols: The Montessori Controversy

Angeline Stoll Lillard & An Vu Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius

Seldin The World in the Palm of her Hand, The Montessori Approach to

Introducing History and Geography to the Young Child

Center for Montessori Teacher Education/NY

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ELEMENTARY I & II PROGRAMS

REQUIRED READINGS: To be read before the start of the program. Be sure to have these texts with you.

Maria Montessori: To Educate the Human Potential

From Childhood to Adolescence

Aline Wolf: Nurturing the Spirit

Paula Lillard: Montessori Today

Rita Kramer: Maria Montessori: A Biography

Michael & D'Neil Duffy Children of the Universe

Angeline Lillard Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius

RECOMMENDED READINGS: Students should bring these texts to the summer sessions.

Maria Montessori: Education for a New World

The Absorbent Mind

The Formation of Man

Spontaneous Activity in Education

Now known as The Advanced Montessori Method.

The Montessori Elementary Material

Now know as Advanced Montessori Method-II . (use as research)

Mario Montessori, Jr.: Education for Human Development

Jane Nelson: Positive Discipline

Brian Swimme: The Universe Story

Donald Graves: Writing: Teachers and Children at Work

Donald Graves: Build a Literate Classroom

William Crain: Theories of Development: Concepts and Applications, Fourth Ed.

Alfie Kohn: The Homework Myth

Michael Duffy Math Works: Montessori Math and the Developing Brain

NOTE: Elementary students are urged to familiarize themselves with the Early Childhood listed readings, and will be held responsible for any text material assigned during the summer or internship phase of the program.

CENTER FOR MONTESSORI SCHOOL MANAGEMENT

CMSM - Part I - REQUIRED READING: To be read before attending Part I. Assignments will be made in class.

Rita Kramer: Maria Montessori: A Biography

CMSM - Part I - RECOMMENDED READINGS: To be read for class discussion during Part I.

Maria Montessori: From Childhood to Adolescence, 1973, Schocken Books, Inc., NYC

John W. Gardner: On Leadership, 1990, Simon and Schuster, NY

CMSM - Part II - REQUIRED READING: Assignments will be made during Part II.

Rosamund & Benjamin Zander: The Art of Possibility, www.penguin.com or your local bookstore

CMSM - Part II - RECOMMENDED READINGS: To be read for discussion during Part II.

Angeline Stoll Lillard & An Vu Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius

Margaret Loeffler, Ph.D.: Montessori in Contemporary American Culture

INTRODUCTION TO MONTESSORI

Rita Kramer: Maria Montessori: A Biography

Maria Montessori: The Secret of Childhood

ADDITIONAL SUGGESTED READINGS FOR ALL LEVELS

John Chattin-McNichols: The Montessori Controversy (Delmar, NY)

Margaret Howard Loeffler: Montessori in Contemporary America (Heinemann, NH)

Jane Roland Martin: The Schoolhome: Rethinking Schools for Changing Families (Harvard, MA)

NEW JERSEY EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM

REQUIRED READINGS:

Warren Bentzen: Seeing Young Children: A Guide to Observing and Recording Young Children

Paula Lillard: Maria Montessori--A Modern Approach

T. M. McDevitt & J. E. Ormrod Child Development and Education

Maria Montessori: The Secret of Childhood

The Absorbent Mind

The Montessori Method

The Discovery of the Child

E.M. Standing: Maria Montessori, Her Life & Work

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