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If iPad Will I Touch Tablets? Montessori and Technology

If iPad Will I Touch Tablets? Montessori and Technology

by | Child's Work, Computers in the Classroom, Educational Program Coordination, Montessori Education, Montessori Family Life, Montessori Parenting, Online Learning, Parenting on the Same Page, The International Montessori Council, Tomorrow's Child

What are we (as Montessori educators and parents) to do with this new reality? What will Montessori be in an ever-changing future? We now live in an ever-changing future, and our Montessori goals are necessary preparations for children who need to learn how to adapt....
Teacher perceptions of family priorities and stressors

Teacher perceptions of family priorities and stressors

by | Communication, MFA, Montessori Family Life, Montessori Parenting, Montessori Teachers, Parent-Teacher Communication, Parenting on the Same Page, Research

This is an ongoing research project. Participants participated in a survey as part of the experience as well and Ann will share her findings once compiled and analyzed! While teachers are able to predict family priorities and stressors to some degree, they also have some mistaken assumptions. For example, teachers think that family issues (such […]

Free Chosen Activity means Freely Chosen All the Time

Free Chosen Activity means Freely Chosen All the Time

by | Child's Work, Family Resources, MFA, Montessori Education, Montessori Family Life, Montessori Parenting, Montessori Teachers, Parent Education, Parenting on the Same Page

It makes no sense to me that a pedagogical approach based on spontaneous activity and free choice in the classroom would presume to dictate what a child should be doing at home. The idea of assigning homework is appropriated from the conventional schooling paradigm – sometimes because Montessori teachers have insufficient faith in the child […]

The Importance of the Kindergarten Year

The Importance of the Kindergarten Year

by | Brain Development, Family Resources, Kindergarten, Montessori Education, Montessori Family Life, Montessori Parenting, Montessori Teachers, Parent-Teacher Communication, Parenting on the Same Page, Research

Every year in January, one of us will write an article about the importance of children who are turning five completing the three-year cycle of the Montessori Early Childhood program. We do this because this is a decision that is truly important for any child who has grown up thus far in a Montessori program. […]

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 […]