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Montessori Mathematics

Montessori Mathematics

by | Adolescence, Early Adolescence (12-15), Later Adolescence (15-18), Lower Elementary (6-9), Mathematics, MFA, Montessori Education, Montessori Materials, Montessori Teachers, Primary (3-6), Upper Elementary (9-12)

The Challenge of Mathematics We use mathematics in almost every aspect of our everyday lives. As Dr. Montessori would often point out, much of our civilization is based upon mathematics. Science and technology depends upon mathematical calculations. Computers are totally mathematical devices. Businesses, research, and governmental agencies all rely upon the collection and interpretation of […]

Why Montessori Education Needs Health Education

by | Adolescence, Early Adolescence (12-15), Educational Program Coordination, Later Adolescence (15-18), Montessori Education, Montessori Teachers

By Dr. Bonny Olney If you attended public school growing up, you all remember “the film” we watched in fourth grade, boys in one room and girls in another. For us girls it was all about female anatomy and this complicated graph of the menstrual cycle. (I also remember being pulled out and disciplined for […]

Why Community Service?

Why Community Service?

by | Early Adolescence (12-15), Empowerment, MFA, Montessori Education, Montessori Parenting, Montessori students, Montessori Teachers

by Louise Seabrook Knisley The Montessori School of Anderson, SC has always had a strong emphasis on community service. We know that sending students out into the community to do service work provides unique learning opportunities. Students learn the joys of giving of themselves, the value of volunteerism, a sense of compassion, and a little […]

Imaginary Island Studies

Imaginary Island Studies

by | Early Adolescence (12-15), Educational Program Coordination, Lower Elementary (6-9), MFA, Montessori Curriculum, Montessori Education, Montessori Middle School, The International Montessori Council, The Montessori Way, Upper Elementary (9-12)

By Tim Seldin This is an excerpt from the Second Edition of The World In The Palm Of Her Hand. The Imaginary Island Project was developed by my friend, Harvey Hallenberg, and introduced to the Montessori community in the 1980s through the Institute for Advanced Montessori Studies in Silver Spring, Maryland, which we co-founded. In […]

New Directions for Montessori Secondary Education

by | Adolescence, Early Adolescence (12-15), Later Adolescence (15-18), MFA, Montessori Education, Montessori Family Life, Montessori Parenting, Montessori Secondary / High School, Montessori Teachers, Parent-Teacher Communication, Parenting on the Same Page

by Jamie Wheal “Schools as they are today are adapted neither to the needs of adolescence nor to the times in which we live.” –Maria Montessori “College admissions, wrote psychologist Michael Thompson in a recent essay on the subject, “can make normal people act nutty and nutty people act quite crazy.” The pressures of this […]

Adolescence Without Tears – The Montessori High School

Adolescence Without Tears – The Montessori High School

by | Adolescence, Discipline, Early Adolescence (12-15), Family Resources, Later Adolescence (15-18), MFA, Montessori Education, Montessori Family Life, Montessori Grandparenting, Montessori Parenting, Montessori Secondary / High School, Montessori Teachers, Parent Education, Parenting on the Same Page

Adolescence Without Tears – The Montessori High School A special issue from Tomorrow’s Child. Adolescence is the middle ground between childhood and the world of adults. Teenagers are neither child nor adult. One minute they are one, next the other. Their bodies are growing overnight, and as sudden spurts of growth begin, they often become […]

Classroom Management in a Nutshell

Classroom Management in a Nutshell

by | Communication, Discipline, Early Adolescence (12-15), Emotionally Healthy Children, Grace and Courtesy, Later Adolescence (15-18), Lower Elementary (6-9), MFA, Mixed Ages, Montessori Education, Montessori Teachers, Primary (3-6), Upper Elementary (9-12)

Here is a brief refresher on classroom management. Remember to use Humor and Drama. No “sh”ushing the children!!! Sing a quiet song, ring the bell to “practice” quiet, hold ten fingers up and ask for silence until each finger is down- so you can “remember” what quiet sounds like, have a child walk around with […]

What is the Montessori Method?

What is the Montessori Method?

by | Early Adolescence (12-15), MFA, Montessori Education, Montessori Family Life, Montessori Parenting

n this interview, with Kelly Krueger Thomas, Host and Founder of Ingeniousbaby.com, Tim Seldin, NewGate Head of School, President of the Montessori Foundation and Chair of the International Montessori Council (IMC), shares what we can all learn from the Montessori approach and its nurturing of creativity and inventiveness. Montessori school alumni include Google’s founders Larry […]

What? An Evaluation?

by | Early Adolescence (12-15), Family Resources, Free Reads, MFA, Montessori Family Life, Montessori Parenting, Montessori students, Parenting on the Same Page

o one will ever know your child like you do, and you see aspects of your child that no teacher ever will, but the reverse is also true. Your child’s teacher sees aspects of your child that you may never get to see. Your child’s teacher sees him as he is learning to be part […]