А. В. Коваленко World Educators of the Kindergarten Movement для студентов направления подготовки


Exercise 7. Read the text once more and decide if the following statements are true or false. Prove your point



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Exercise 7. Read the text once more and decide if the following statements are true or false. Prove your point.

1. Kate Douglas Wiggin led the primary education movement in the USA.

2. She was a daughter of Irish descent.

3. Kate Wiggin devoted her life to write children’s books.

4. Kate’s childhood was happy.

5. Kate Wiggin got more education than other women in that time.

6. Kate Douglas Wiggin is famous also as a songwriter and composer of music.

Exercise 8. Complete each sentence below with a suitable ending.

1. In 1878 Kate Douglas Wiggin started…

2. Kate Wiggin with her sister established …

3. Kate Douglas Wiggin devoted her adult life to …

4. She lived in an era …

5. With her sister and her new baby brother, Philip …

6. After graduation a kindergarten training class in Los Angeles …

7. Kate Wiggin’s printed books had …

8. According to the customs of the time when Kate married B. Wiggin …

a) the welfare of children.

b) when children were commonly thought of as cheap labour.

c) she headed the first free kindergarten in California.

d) the Silver Street free kindergarten.

e) Kate matured in rural surroundings.

f) a training school for kindergarten teachers.

g) enormous success.

h) she was required to resign her teaching job.

Exercise 9. Read the text «Kate Douglas Wiggin» and answer the following questions.

1. What educational movement did Kate Douglas Wiggin lead in the United States?

2. Where and when was she born?

3. What did Kate Douglas Wiggin establish with her sister?

4. What did Kate Wiggin devote her adult life to?

5. What do you know about Kate’s education?

6. Her education was better than the most women at that time, wasn’t it?

7. Why did Kate Wiggin resign her teaching job after getting married?

8. What did Kate Wiggin’s literary output include?

9. What Kate Wiggin’s books do you know? Have you read any of them?



Exercise 10. Make an information map to collect information about Kate Douglas Wiggin, the founder of the kindergarten education movement in the United States.





Kate Douglas Wiggin


to be an American

author


Exercise 11. Creative task.

Project work. You have read a lot of information about great world educators and their systems of education. Imagine that in four years you’ll finish our university and become a director of a new kindergarten in our town. Now try to design the kindergarten of your dream. Try to show your own project with diagrams, pictures, tables and schemes. Show it to other students and prove that your kindergarten, its system of education and the nursery nurses who work their, are the best in Surgut.

Text 7. Patty Smith Hill (1868 – 1946)


Grammar: Sequences of Tenses

Patty Smith Hill is an American nursery school, kindergarten teacher, and key founder of the National Association Nursery Education (NANE) which now exists as the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). Patty Smith Hill was born in 1868 in Anchorage, Kentucky. Her parents were passionate people who instilled in Patty and her siblings the importance of education, the value of play, and the necessity of advocating for others. Her father, William Wallace Hill, was born in Bath, Kentucky, graduated from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky in 1833, and earned a doctorate of Theology from Princeton University in 1838. He dedicated his entire life to ministry and education, which took the Hill family from Kentucky to Missouri to Texas. Her mother, Martha Jane Smith, was William’s second wife (his first died in childbirth), and was born in Pennsylvania, but as an adolescent moved with her brother to live with their aunt and uncle on their plantation in Danville. Martha Jane was intent on learning and passing along education to others, evidenced, for example, by the fact that she taught the slaves on the Grimes plantation to read and write.

Hill’s parents were committed to their children’s education; her father is reported to have told his daughters to understand the value of a good education, and that it was a tragedy for women to marry for a home. Don’t live with law kin! Don’t even if you have to live in a hollow tree! Empowered by her parents’ encouragement, Patty graduated valedictorian of her class from the Louisville Collegiate Institute in 1887.

Hill was an authority and leader in the progressive education movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Patty developed the Patty Hill blocks and in 1924 helped create the Institute of Child Welfare Research at Columbia University Teachers College. The Patty Hill blocks were large blocks with which children could create giant constructions.

Hill is perhaps best known as the sister of Mildred J. Hill, with whom she is credited as co-writing the tune to the song Good Morning To All. The tune became even more popular as Happy Birthday to You during the 20th century. Hill and her sister Mildred wrote the song (Mildred wrote the tune; Patty wrote the original lyrics) while Patty was principal and Mildred was a teacher at the Louisville Experimental Kindergarten School. This kindergarten was an early experiment in modern educational methods, and was honored, along with the Hill sisters, at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893.

Patty Smith Hill died in New York, New York, and is buried in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky. She and Mildred J Hill were posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on 12 June 1996.



From http://www.britannica.com/

NOTES

Patty Smith Hill – Патти Смит Хилл.

Mildred J. Hill – Милдред Хилл, ст. сестра Патти Смит Хилл.

Anchorage, Kentucky – г. Анкоридж (штат Кентукки).

Danville – г. Данвилл (штат Калифорния).

The Louisville Experimental Kindergarten School – Луисвиллский детский сад.

EXERCISES

Exercise 1. Put in the missing letters. Check yourself with a dictionary: p-s-io-ate, n-ce-s-ty, s-b-in-s, d-ct-ra-e, -do-es-ent, v-l-d-cto-ian, -u-h-r-ty, p-og-es-ive, -xp-r-m-nt, -o-g-ri-er.

Exercise 2. Find the right pronunciation of these words in a dictionary, read them and explain their meaning: to be a key founder of smth, the National Association Nursery Education, a tragedy for women to marry for a home.

Exercise 3. Match the words with their definitions.

1. association

a. a person or people who have the moral or legal right or ability to control

2. necessity

b. a test done in order to learn smth or to discover whether smth works or is true

3. doctorate

c. a person who is legally owned by someone else, who works as a servant for that person and who has no personal freedom

4. adolescent

d. a group of people who are united in a single organization for a particular purpose

5. valedictorian


e. a series of musical notes, esp. one which is pleasant and easy to remember

6. authority

f. the need for smth

7. method

g. a particular way of doing smth

8. experiment

h. a high-ranking degree

9. slave


i. a young person between childhood and adulthood

10. tune

j. a student, usually one who has been the most successful in a particular class, who makes a speech at a special ceremony at the end of a school year

Put your answers in this table. Model:

1. g

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

Exercise 4. Learn new words and word combinations and use them in your topics.

to be committed to children’s education to instill

the progressive educational movement a welfare

to be an authority and leader in smth an adolescent

to dedicate smb’s life of education a valedictorian

the necessity of advocating for smb passionate people

to teach smb to read and write to earn a doctorate

a key founder of smth the importance of education

modern educational methods the value of play

Exercise 5. Read and translate the text with a dictionary. Choose sentences which help you to tell about Patty Smith Hill, a key founder of the National Association Nursery Education in the USA.

Exercise 6. Choose the best word to complete the sentences. Check yourself with a dictionary.

1. leader

2. doctorate

3. association

4. adolescents

5. methods

6. authority

7. necessity

8. encouragement

1. She was awarded an honorary … for her charity work.

2. Many cinema films are made in … with television companies nowadays.

3. You can come early and help if you want, but there’s no … .

4. The party was full of spotty … .

5. Your comments have been a great … to us.

6. The United Nations has used its … to restore peace in the area.

7. Hill was the … up to the 54th lap, when his car ran out of petrol.

8. Travelling by train is still one of the safest … of transport.



Exercise 7. Read the text once more and decide if the following statements are true or false. Prove your point.

1. The National Association Nursery Education was founded by Patty Smith.

2. Patty Smith’s parents were ordinary people.

3. Patty Smith graduated from Centre College in Danville.

4. Patty Smith’s mother earned a doctorate of Theology from Princeton University.

5. Patty Smith died in childbirth.

6. Her stepmother taught the slaves to read and write.

Exercise 8. Complete each sentence below with a suitable ending.

1. Patty Smith Hill is an American kindergarten teacher …

2. Patty Smith’s father graduated from Centre College in Danville …

3. Patty Smith’s mother taught the slaves on the Grimes plantation …

4. Hill’s parents were committed …

5. P.S. Hill was a leader in the progressive …

6. The song «Good morning to all» became more popular as …

a) education movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

b) and earned a doctorate of Theology in 1838.

c) Happy birthday to you during the 20th century.

d) to their children’s education.

e) and key founder of the NANE.

f) to read and write.

Exercise 9. Read the text «Patty Smith Hill» and answer the following questions.

1. Where and when was Patty Smith Hill born?

2. What was founded by Patty Smith Hill?

3. What was her father?

4. What do you know about him as a teacher?

5. What can you tell us about her mother Martha Jane?

6. What was Hill’s parents attitude to their children’s education?

7. P. Hill was a leader in the progressive education movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, wasn’t she?

8. What have you learnt about Patty Smith Hill as a children’s composer?

Exercise 10. Make an information map to collect information about Patty Smith Hill, a key founder of the National Association Nursery Education in the USA.


Patty Smith Hill


to be an American

kindergarten teacher


Exercise 11. Creative task.

Brainstorming. Brainstorm all your ideas and thoughts and make computer presentations "The key founder of the National Association Nursery Education in the United States". (Pay attention to the rules of brainstorming at p.14).

Text 8. Maria Montessori (1870 – 1952)


Grammar: The Imperative Mood


Maria Montessori was an Italian physician, educator, philosopher, humanitarian and devout Catholic; she is best known for her philosophy and the Montessori method of education of children from birth to adolescence. Her educational method is in use today in a number of public as well as private schools throughout the world. Maria Montessori was born in Chiaravalle (Italy). At the age of thirteen she attended an all-boy technical school in preparation for her dreams of becoming an engineer. Montessori was the first woman to graduate from the University of Rome La Sapienza Medical School, becoming the first female doctor in Italy. She was a member of the University's Psychiatric Clinic and became intrigued with trying to educate the special needs or unhappy little ones and the uneducatable in Rome. In 1896, she gave a lecture at the Educational Congress in Torino about the training of the disabled. The Italian Minister of Education was in attendance, and was impressed by her arguments sufficiently to appoint her the same year as director of the institution devoted to the care and education of the mentally retarded. She accepted, in order to put her theories to proof. In Rome Dr. Montessori developed the Montessori program for the elementary years for the child from 6-12. She began, as elementary classes do today, with the required curriculum of Italy of her time. She adapted the traditional teacher-taught subjects in the arts and science so that the children could use materials to guide their open-ended research and to follow their individual interests, working to a much higher level than was previously thought possible for children of this age. The elementary child, when allowed to work independently instead of being taught in groups led by a teacher, and in classes with a mixed age group of 6-12- year-old students inspiring and teaching each other, masters academic subjects usually not taught until middle or high school. Her first notable success was to have several of her 8 year old students apply to take the State examinations for reading and writing. The defective children not only passed, but had above-average scores, an achievement described as the first Montessori miracle. Montessori's response to their success was if mentally disabled children could be brought to the level of normal children then she wanted to study the potential of normal children.

Because of her success with these children, she was asked to start a school for children in a housing project in Rome, which opened on January 6, 1907, and which she called Children's House. Children's House was a child care center in an apartment building in the poor neighborhood of Rome. She was focused on teaching the students ways to develop their own skills at a pace they set, which was a principle Montessori called spontaneous self-development. A wide variety of special equipment of increasing complexity is used to help direct the interests of the child and hasten development. When a child is ready to learn new and more difficult tasks, the teacher guides the child’s first endeavors in order to avoid wasted effort and the learning of wrong habits; otherwise the child learns alone. It has been reported that the Montessori method of teaching has enabled children to learn to read and write much more quickly and with greater facility than has otherwise been possible. The success of this school sparked the opening of many more, and a worldwide interest in Montessori's methods of education.

After the 1907 establishment of Montessori's first school in Rome, by 1917 there was an intense interest in her method in North America. Invited to the USA by Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and others, Dr. Montessori spoke at Carnegie Hall in 1915. She was invited to set up a classroom at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, where spectators watched twenty-one children, all new to this Montessori method, behind a glass wall for four months. The only two gold medals awarded for education went to this class, and the education of young children was altered forever.

In the year 1939, the Theosophical Society of India extended an invitation asking Maria Montessori to visit India. She accepted the invitation and reached India the very same year accompanied by her only son, Mario Montessori Sr. This heralded the beginning of her special relationship with India. She made the international Headquarters of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Chennai, her home. However the war forced her to extend her stay in India. During World War II Dr. Montessori was forced into exile from Italy because of her antifascist views and lived and worked in India. It was here that she developed her work Education for Peace, and developed many of the ideas taught in her training courses today. With the help of her son, Mario, she conducted sixteen batches of courses called the Indian Montessori Training Courses. These courses laid a strong foundation for the Montessori Movement in India. In 1949 when she left for The Netherlands she appointed Albert Max Joosten as her personal representative, and assigned him the responsibility of conducting the Indian Montessori Training Courses. Joosten along with Swamy S R, another disciple of Dr. Maria Montessori, continued the good work and ensured that the Montessori Movement in India was on a sound footing. She was twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Maria Montessori died in the Netherlands in 1952, after a lifetime devoted to the study of child development. Her early work centered on women’s rights and social reform and evolved to encompass a totally innovative approach to education. Her success in Italy led to international recognition, and for over 40 years she traveled all over the world, lecturing, writing and establishing training programs. In later years, ‘Educate for Peace’ became a guiding principle, which underpinned her work. Since her death an interest in Dr. Montessori's methods have continued to spread throughout the world. Her message to those who emulated her was always to turn one's attention to the child, to follow the child. It is because of this basic tenet, and the observation guidelines left by her, that Dr. Montessori's ideas will never become obsolete.

Many people, hearing of the high academic level reached by students in this system of education, miss the point and think that Montessori math manipulative is all there is to the Montessori method. It is easy to acquire materials and to take short courses to learn to use them, but the real value of Montessori takes long and thorough training for the adult.



From www.michaelolaf.net/maria.html

NOTES

Chiaravalle – г. Кьяравалле (Центральная Италия, провинция Анкона).

the Panama-Pacific Exposition – Панама Тихоокеанская Международная Выставка.

the Theosophical Society – Теософское Общество.

Albert Max Joosten – Альберт Макс Джустен.

EXERCISES

Exercise 1. Put in the missing letters. Check yourself with a dictionary: p-ys-c-an, -d-c-t-r, -hil-so-her, h-m-nit-r-an, -d-le-c-n-e, i-v-t-t-on, -e-o-n-tion, re-p-ns-bil-ty, c-r-ic-lum, f-u-d-ti-n.

Exercise 2. Find the right pronunciation of these words in a dictionary, read them and explain their meaning: to become the first female doctor, to have a notable success, mentally disabled children, Montessori's methods of education.

Exercise 3. Match the words with their definitions.

1. to graduate (from)

a. a business or other organizations or the place where an organization operates

2. engineer

b. to try to do something

3. proof

c. the way in which smth has changed

4. success

d. something which you do often and regularly, often without knowing that you are going it

5. neighborhood

e. a period of life between childhood and adulthood

6. development

f. to complete the education

7. to endeavour

g. the area of a town that surrounds someone’s home or the people who live in this area

8. establishment

h. a person whose job is to design or build machines, engines or electrical equipment, using scientific principles

9. habit

i. the achieving of desired results

10. adolescence

j. one or more reasons for believing that something is or is not true

Put your answers in this table. Model:

1. f




























Exercise 4. Learn new words and word combinations and use them in your topics.

to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize a private school

to learn new and more difficult tasks to teach subjects

Montessori's methods of education a child care center

to study the potential of children a worldwide interest

the learning of wrong habits the traditional teacher

to develop smb’s own skills to accept the invitation

mentally disabled children to work independently



Exercise 5. Read and translate the text with a dictionary. Choose sentences which help you to tell about Maria Montessori, an Italian physician, educator.

Exercise 6. Choose the best word to complete the sentences. Check yourself with a dictionary.

1.the school year

2. adolescence

3. habits

4.neighbouhood

5. recognition

6. rendezvous

7. success

8.development

1. H’s just another novel about the joys and sorrows of … .

2. The … of almost any project depends largely on its manager.

3. She wouldn’t like to live in the … of a manager.

4. A good diet is essential for a child’s healthy growth and … .

5. In spite of our best …, it has proven impossible to contact her.

6. The quick … of disease is vital for effective treatment.

7. His eating … are extraordinary.

8. In Britain, … starts in September and ends in July.




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