As many of you know, the aesthetics of the Montessori classroom is vital. We thought we would take this opportunity to explain the reason we display the materials so carefully, in such a neat and orderly fashion on the shelves. First, we believe that the activities must be appealing to the children. We want the […]
What is individualized education? We want to take this opportunity to explain. In this post, we’ll highlight a few principles that will better articulate what exactly it means to offer personal, individualized, one-on-one education. We’ll also, and as an accompaniment to this short article, offer a visual glimpse. As they say, “seeing is believing”. Let’s […]
Competition is a tricky concept in Montessori. We thought we would take this opportunity to try to elucidate the conditions of competition and offer a few thoughts on competition and why Montessori employs collaboration instead of competition. What does it mean to compete? In a very fundamental sense, competition has become a mainstay in the […]
Discipline has a very punitive connotation in our society. The origins of the term, however, are much different. Discipline derives from the latin, discipulus, which literally means, “to learn”. Disciple, of course, has a very different intimation than discipline, especially in our contemporary landscape. With disciple comes thoughts of, ‘instruction, teaching, learning, knowledge’: basically, a […]
There are a lot of misunderstandings about why Montessori requires five days a week. We thought we’d take this opportunity to address a few of them. First, we think that it’s really important to remember that we employ five days a week, not for ourselves, but for our students. We really believe, and the research […]
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