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by Margot Garfield-Anderson | Infant-Toddler (0 to 3), Kindergarten, MFA, Montessori Education, Montessori Parenting, Montessori students, Prepared Environment, Primary (3-6), Sensitive Periods
y now your Montessori child has settled into a routine and joyfully approaches each new day at school. You’ve attended some parent nights and open houses. The Montessori guides are reporting their earliest observations of your child, using terms that are new to your ear. How do they translate into layman’s terms and what place […]
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by Lorna McGrath | Discipline, Early Adolescence (12-15), Infant, Infant-Toddler (0 to 3), Kindergarten, Lower Elementary (6-9), MFA, Montessori Family Life, Montessori Parenting, Montessori Teachers, Primary (3-6), Start of School Year, Webinars / MFA
Do you struggle everyday with getting ready and out of the house on time for school, work, religious services, visiting friends and relatives? From her years of parenting, teaching, and administering a school Lorna McGrath has lots of tips for parents and teachers to make any getting ready time less of a struggle and more […]
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by Kelly Johnson | Kindergarten, Lower Elementary (6-9), MFA, Montessori Family Life, Montessori Parenting, Outdoor Education / Resources, Parent Education, Primary (3-6), Webinars / MFA
Kelly Johnson is an expert on connecting families and nature. From her experience as a Montessori teacher she has developed activities for families to create nature journals to carry with them and record their observations, explorations, and drawings.
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by Robin Howe, EdD | Kindergarten, Lower Elementary (6-9), MFA, Start of School Year, Upper Elementary (9-12), Webinars / MFA
Robin Howe shares his experience as a teacher and administrator concerning parent, student, and school expectations for the beginning of the school year. He suggests ways for families to get off to the right start.
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by Michael Dorer, EdD | Emotional Intelligence (EQ), Imagination, Kindergarten, Later Adolescence (15-18), Lower Elementary (6-9), Montessori Curriculum, Montessori Education, Montessori Middle School, Montessori Secondary / High School, Montessori Teachers, Primary (3-6), School Leadership, Science, The International Montessori Council, Upper Elementary (9-12), Webcasts / IMC
Take a Deep Breath! Get Inspired! Having an atmosphere of inspiration can perk up and deeply enhance any Montessori program. But, how to be inspiring? Be part of this webinar with Michael Dorer to consider ten Strategies for Inspiration. Your classroom and your school can be an inspiring place, brimming with enthusiasm. Breathe deeply! Now […]
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by Tim Seldin | Emotional Intelligence (EQ), Kindergarten, Parent Education, Primary (3-6), School Leadership, The International Montessori Council
Download PDF of slides This is a big issue and one that is crucial to building and maintaining full-implemented Montessori programs. This is not only a challenge at the Children’s House level to keep the “Kindergartners. It applies to the third year in Elementary I and also to the third year in Elementary II. It ties into […]
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by Michael Dorer, EdD | Infant-Toddler (0 to 3), Kindergarten, Later Adolescence (15-18), Lower Elementary (6-9), Montessori Education, Montessori Middle School, Montessori Secondary / High School, Montessori students, Primary (3-6), Psychology, The International Montessori Council, Upper Elementary (9-12), Video, Webcasts / IMC
This week Dr. Michael Dorer led a topic of interest to both school administrators and teachers: Independence – Let me do it myself! This may be the defining mantra of Montessori education. Why is that? What does it mean? Is it really all that important? We celebrated America’s Independence Day (July 4) by looking […]
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by Cathie Perolman | Kindergarten, MFA, Montessori Education, Montessori Family Life, Montessori Parenting, Montessori students
Dear Cathie, How important is it to keep my child in the Montessori class through the kindergarten year? After all, she will have to transition to her neighborhood school at some point. Isn’t it best that she do it when all of the children are entering the local elementary school? If we don’t transition at […]
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by Jonathan Wolff | Infant-Toddler (0 to 3), Kindergarten, Later Adolescence (15-18), Lower Elementary (6-9), Montessori Administrators, Montessori Education, Montessori Middle School, Montessori Secondary / High School, Montessori Teachers, Primary (3-6), School Leadership, The International Montessori Council, Upper Elementary (9-12), Video, Webcasts / IMC
This week, Jonathan Wolff, Kath Leitch, and Michael Dorer explored the topic of how we can take a look back at the school year that is ending, and use the insights we can glean from that reflection to strengthen our programs, special events, and Montessori practice. “What can we celebrate?” Let’s take a look back […]
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by Margot Garfield-Anderson | Kindergarten, MFA, Montessori Parenting, Montessori Teachers, Primary (3-6), Science
t was time again for my annual weekend visit with Blakely Jayne, my oldest granddaughter (she’ll turn four at the end of March). Each year since she was born, my son-in-law ventures down from Rochester, New York to Sarasota, Florida, where I live. While he plays golf with his granddad, I get special time with […]
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by Michael Dorer, EdD | Kindergarten, Language, Montessori Curriculum, Montessori Education, Montessori Materials, Montessori Teachers, School Resources, The International Montessori Council, Upper Elementary (9-12), Video, Webcasts / IMC, Writing
Function of words part 2 slides This week, Dr. Michael Dorer will present the second half of Functions of Words: Making Grammar Exciting and Fun! Is grammar a scary subject to you, or do you even find it useless? Join Michael in a two-part romp through the world of words and their functions in the […]
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by Michael Dorer, EdD | Kindergarten, Language, Lower Elementary (6-9), Montessori Curriculum, Montessori Education, Montessori Materials, Montessori Teachers, Primary (3-6), Reading, The International Montessori Council, Upper Elementary (9-12), Video, Webcasts / IMC, Writing
Download PDF of slides Grammar Webinar Part One This week, Dr. Michael Dorer presented the second half of Functions of Words: Making Grammar Exciting and Fun! Is grammar a scary subject to you, or do you even find it useless? Join Michael in a two-part romp through the world of words and their functions in […]
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by John Long | Kindergarten, MFA, Montessori Education, Montessori Family Life, Montessori Parenting, Montessori students
he five-year-old walked to the shelf to get a little tray containing six pictures. He brought them back to his work rug where he had a movable alphabet, a box of sorted, individual letters. He also had a card that said “ee” that went with the set of pictures he had chosen. Within five minutes […]
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by Tim Seldin | Kindergarten, Montessori Administrators, Montessori Parenting, Montessori Teachers, Parent Education, School Leadership, The International Montessori Council
any schools face the challenge of convincing more parents of 5 year-olds to stay on for elementary. I wrote the enclosed letters for one school to send out over the Head’s signature. I thought that you might find them useful in preparing an evening and invitation to attend of your own. Many schools send home […]
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by Tim Seldin | Emotional Intelligence (EQ), Free Reads, Kindergarten, Lower Elementary (6-9), MFA, Mixed Ages, Montessori Administrators, Montessori Education, Montessori Parenting, Montessori students, Montessori Teachers, Parent Education, Primary (3-6), School Leadership, School Resources, The International Montessori Council
Having sent a child to Montessori for the first three years, by now you have probably got a young person who is very full of herself, very self-assured, independent, and who absolutely loves to go to school. As your child approaches the end of her third year in the...
by John Long | Kindergarten, MFA, Montessori Education, Montessori Parenting
Childhood is a time to have fun. At Post Oak the children are always working. Don’t Montessori children have fun?” This is a good, honest question that seeks out the nature of early childhood education, in fact, the very nature of childhood. This question perfectly expresses a mistake we adults often make in thinking about […]
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by Tim Seldin | Kindergarten, MFA, Mixed Ages, Montessori Education, Montessori Family Life, Primary (3-6)
t’s re-enrollment time again, and in thousands of Montessori schools all over America parents of four-almost-five-year-olds are trying to decide whether or not they should keep their sons and daughters in the final year of their primary Montessori experience or send them off to kindergarten in local, non-Montessori schools. The advantages of using the local […]
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by John Long | Kindergarten, MFA, Montessori Education
wo five-year-old girls have created the solar system. It is larger than they are, rendered in tempera paint on paper that must be ten feet long. The planets are drawn to scale and painted to match our best photos of the heavenly spheres. The background, the vast emptiness of space between the planets, is […]
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