About the Author
Lee Havis is director of the International Montessori Society (IMS), a non-profit organization he founded in the United States in 1979 to advance and support his innovative discoveries and research in the field of scientific education. Prior to 1979, he conducted and supervised Montessori teacher education and taught students of all ages, from preschool to college. He also created and conducted an in-home tutoring program, Trust Tutoring, which utilizes unique evaluation testing he created as an integral aspect of this program. In his work with IMS, he has created and conducted many types of training programs on the subject of scientific teaching, especially using unique technology he developed in the field. Among these, are included webinars, self-directed home study, distance learning courses, and over 150 workshops on the subject all over the world.
As editor of IMS periodicals, the “Montessori Observer” and “Montessori News”, Lee has written regularly on research and application of scientific education with children. He is also author of specialized evaluation testing materials, known as “Evaluation of Basic Skills” and a contributor to such publications as “Maria Montessori: Her Life and Work” (Introduction, 1998), Foreword to “The Essential Montessori” (publ, 1995); Foreword to “Teaching Montessori in the Home – Preschool Years” (publ. 1995); Foreword to “Teaching Montessori in the Home – School Years” (publ 1996); Foreword to “Why Montessori?” (publ 2001).
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The Technology of Scientific Education
by Lee Havis, Director/Founder of International Montessori Society
Finally Solved!
In this text, Lee Havis finally solves the mystery of scientific education that led Dr. Maria Montessori to discover the young child’s true nature in 1907. Until now, would-be practitioners of this “new education” had only vague concepts, instinct, and intuition to guide them through the “mist and clouds” of this hopeful vision a whole new reality of perfect peace, order, and harmony in world. read more –