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CHILDHOOD POVERTY
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POVERTY IS RELATIVE
http://youtu.be/0rmaEW3qIU0
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POOR PEOPLE ARE PROUD AND WILL DO THEIR BEST TO HIDE POVERTY
HAVING A HOUSE AND A CAR DOES NOT PRECLUDE YOUR STATUS AS BEING IN POVERTY
JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
‘680,000 PEOPLE LIVING IN POVERTY
IN THE UK’Source: http://www.slugerotoole.com
Half the children in poverty belong to working families.
Half the improvement in the child poverty rate between
the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s has been lost in the last 5 years.
The Welsh Government’s new child poverty target requires the rate to fall four times as fast over the next ten years as it has over the last ten.
200,000 CHILDREN IN WALES ARE IN
POVERTY As measured by low income after housing
costs have been deducted.
IS THERE A SOLUTION?
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There is nothing as powerful
as a new idea in the hands of
a first-class entrepreneur
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS
INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS
AMBITIOUS AND PERSISTENT
TACKLING MAJOR SOCIAL ISSUES
OFFERING NEW IDEAS
FOR WIDE SCALE CHANGE
Joseph Rowntree
Witnessed the potato famine and extreme poverty in Ireland.
A supporter of liberal values.
Anxious to improve the quality of life of his employees.
Provided them with a library, free education, a works magazine, a social welfare officer, a doctor, a dentist and a pension fund.
Bill Gates - Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
An endowment of approximately $25 billion
To improve equity in global health and learning.
Providing badly needed funds for underrepresented minority college scholarships, AIDS prevention, and many other causes that are often ignored by the charitable community
The Foundation has given out over $6.2 billion in grants since its inception, including over $1.2 billion dollars in 2002.
Andrew Mawson OBE - Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
One of the foremost social entrepreneurs in the UK.
Andrew Mawson understands the detail needed to make a community work;
How the shopkeeper relates to the school and how the health centre depends on the quality of the surrounding environment.
Andrew believes in the unique gifts of every individual in the community.
It is the people bit that matters and this is what civil servants and politicians often fail to understand.
http://amawsonpartnerships.com
Many look to education as a solution, without realising the true cause or nature of the problem itself.
Can Education Solve
Poverty and Child Labour?
In 2011, poverty and child labour are growing problems that threaten the stability and progress of all countries in our complex global economy.
Fifth of 11-year-old pupils failing Maths and English benchmarksSource: http://www.walesonline.co.uk
Politicians call for serious and urgent action to turn around Wales’s failing education system after the chief inspector of Estyn’s report Source: TES Cymru 28 Jan2011
The Montessori MethodA Passport To The World
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Dr. Montessori discovered the child’s true nature in 1907 by observing poor young children living in very difficult social conditions. In this first Children’s House experiment in Rome, Italy, she found the combination of extreme poverty, parental ignorance and untrained teachers.
Dr. Maria Montessori
• Medical Doctor• Scientist• Anthropologist• Philosopher• Pedagog• Teacher• Mother
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The Montessori method was constructed and used successfully with children from very poor backgrounds. Following its success it was used by Royal palaces, ambassadors and wealthy people for their children. Since then it has remained the prerogative of the rich except where it has been used in places like India and Africa by Philanthropists and social entrepreneurs. It has never ever been offered in Wales.
One experiment in one of the worse failing schools in Manchester also proved successful. The DfE has never shown any interest in adopting any of Montessori’s ideas until now. The Welsh Assembly government is now interested in using Montessori within the foundation stage.
FE and HE colleges are also interested in placing Montessori on their programmes of learning.
The Montessori Classroom
• Spacious• Organised• Freedom• Child Sized• Designated Areas• No Teacher’s Desk• No Formal Lessons• Mixed Age Groups• No Text Books
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AREAS OF LEARNING
SENSORIAL
• Visual Sense
• Tactile Sense
• Thermic Sense
• Auditory Sense
• Olfactory Sense
• Gustatory Sense
• Stereognostic Sense
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Practical Life
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Preliminary Exercises
Care Of The Person
Care Of The Environment
Grace And Courtesy
Control Of Movement
LANGUAGE
• Oral Language• Written Language• Handwriting• Reading• Total Reading• Reading Analysis• Cultural Work
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Mathematics
• Numbers Through Ten• Decimal System• Linear And Skip
Counting• Tables Of Arithmetic• Passage To
Abstraction• Fractions
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TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
Taster Course
Learning Assistants Course
Teacher Training Course
Foundation Degree Course
Masters Degree Course
PHD Doctorate
Teacher Trainer’s Course
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
Teacher
Nanny - Manny
Classroom Assistant
Open Your Own School - Nursery
U.K. Schools
Worldwide Schools
Aid Agencies
College - University Lecturer
Research Assistant
FAMOUS MONTESSORIANS
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Anne Frank
Jimmy Wales
Jaqueline Kennedy
Gabriel Garcia
George Clooney
Jeff Bezos
Prince William and Prince Harry
Julia Child
P Diddy
Montessori Education Film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM1Gu9KXVkk
More Information Can Be Found At
www.montessoricentrewales.ning.com