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In this digest, we share our Aid to Life resource on how you can help your children learn to make choices about their own actions, an essay on radical school reform, and a research article on transition to crawling in infancy. We also share the Voices of Youth project focused on supporting children and adolescents in global cyberspace. Do not forget to visit our AMI Digital resources page to get free access to various classified cards and language materials.
We would also like to let you know that the format of our digests is going to change starting from May. You will keep on receiving our carefully curated content once a month with even more exciting updates, blog posts, podcasts and articles.
Stay tuned!
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The Trajectory of Concurrent Motor and Vocal Behaviors Over the Transition to Crawling in Infancy
To document the trajectory of motor and vocal behaviours in real and developmental time, this research observed infants at each of four biweekly naturalistic play sessions over the transition to crawling. An exhaustive and mutually exclusive coding scheme documented all vocalizations and postures. Odds ratios of the likelihood of a given postureâvocalization dyad revealed that vocalization and crawling were significantly unlikely to coâoccur at the session marking the onset of crawling. Learn more here.
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Shunned and Admired: Montessori, Self-Determination, and a Case for Radical School Reform
School reform is an important national and international concern. The Montessori alternative school system is unique in that it is well-aligned with the science of healthy development and learning, has strong social-emotional and academic outcomes, is virtually unchanged in over a century, can be applied across all the school years, and still attracts considerable attention and allegianceâyet it remains âon the marginsâ of the bulwark educational system, as often shunned as admired. Why does Montessori persist (and increasingly in the public sector) and why does it elicit such sharply contrasting reactions? This article reviews several reasons why it is admired. Learn more here.
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Making Choices
When young children are allowed to make some choices for themselves they start to be able to think for themselves and this leads them to make choices about their own actions. Making choices about their own actions is the first step on the path to developing self-discipline. Learn more here.
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Voices of Youth
Voices of Youth is UNICEFâs vibrant community of youth bloggers from all over the world, offering inspiring, original insight and opinion on a variety of topics.Voices of Youth offers all children and adolescents, including the hard-to-reach, a safe and supportive global cyberspace within which they can explore, discuss and partner on issues related to human rights and social change, as well as develop their awareness, leadership, community building, and critical thinking skills through active and substantive participation with their peers and with decision-makers globally. Learn more here.
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AMI Digital is an online repository of quality Montessori resources for educators, schools and families. Due to the current situation with COVID-19, AMI is offering free access to some of its materials for use with children aged 3-6, some of which are also suitable for older children. Explore the AMI Digital Free Educational Resources here. It has been undergoing development recently in preparation to re-launch this year for all AMI members to access as part of their membership benefits. AMI members will soon have access to an extensive range of educational resources as well as academic papers and journals. |
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Keep well, keep safe, and keep in touch.
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