Montessori education

parents struggle with the decision of which daycare they should start their child’s education. They go back and forth trying to determine what is the best school to help develop their young child’s mind. They ask themselves, “Will this actually affect how he or she succeeds throughout the rest of their educational life?” Some parents in this situation choose to enroll their child in a Montessori School. Montessori education allows a more personal needs based learning system that not all…

There is an estimated 4,000 certified Montessori schools in the United States and 64 of the Montessori schools are in Colorado. Selective Montessori schools can start as early as 6 weeks all the way up to a high school graduate. Montessori schools can impact the community in the way of helping build the future. In other words Montessori schools help develop children to become independent individuals as well as learning to make decisions for themselves. In Montessori schools the children learn…

teacher, who has dedicated her life into education. I thought I knew the ins-and-outs of schools because of my mother’s experiences and I was absolutely wrong. Introduction to Education has confronted my preexisting ideals about different schooling options, race and culture, state standards, and many other topics. I have experienced these changes due to findings, field placement, and the various papers I have written. However, this…

through the Montessori Curriculum. The Montessori style of education comes from the educator Maria Montessori. Montessori believed that teaching a child should be created on the basis that children are all individual humans whom have different strengths, needs, interests and learning styles. “In Montessori classrooms children make creative choices in their learning, while the classroom and the teacher offers age-appropriate activities to guide the process.” However in the traditional education…

All teachers have a different philosophy of what education should be. This influences the way their classroom is set up and run which consequently influences the how the students learn. Personally I believe that classrooms should not just be run with the students in rows of desks with the teacher standing in the front of the room talking. I believe that classrooms should incorporate different teaching styles to try to incorporate as many different learning styles as possible so all students have…

and developed the first intelligence test that produced interest in individual differences. The study of learning styles in 1907 was the next step when Dr. Maria Montessori invented the Montessori method of education that uses materials to enhance the learning styles of her students. It is because through their actions that Dr. Montessori believed that her students will demonstrate mastery of subjects, not through a multiple-choice answer sheet. The 1950s to 1970s Before re-emerging in the…

PROGRESSIVISM IN EDUCATION Education is the process of acquiring, processing and applying information. Everybody has a different way of obtaining information. That’s why so many theories have occurred. Progressivism is one of them. It is a theory of education mostly deals with learning by doing. Progressivism is the form of pragmatisim which is adjusted into education. In pragmatisim, change is seen as the essence of reality. So, in the movement of progressivism in education philosophy, it is…

Morocco. Within the Montessori environment, I was surrounded by diversity in both culture and academic subjects. I began learning about human emotions: how to recognize my own, understand them, and express them in ways that were appropriate.…

This can be done by consistently playing and studying video games, sports, arts, music, sewing, etc. There is little emphasis on a traditional education, so there are not classes with students, teachers and textbooks. More importance is put on finding one’s own interests, and makes the children learn about things important to them with help of staff. It seems like more of a cool summer camp than…

success of preschoolers that are taught by the Reggio approach. Within this approach, very young children are expected to be able to complete complicated tasks that are not always thought to be capable of children their age. Supporters of this education approach say that children are able to learn how to solve problems instead of just having the answers given to them. The Reggio approach emphasizes the potential in young children, instead of repressing them like many day care and preschool…