WESTMOUNT — The Harbourside Montessori School in Westmount is raising money to help children at a school in southern Africa. © CHRIS SHANNON/CAPE BRETON POST On Saturday morning, the school, with the help of its students and parents, hosted a yard sale to begin raising $2,000 to send to families living in Lesotho. The Todd [...]
There are strident disagreements these days over every aspect of American educational policy, except for one. Everyone thinks it would be great if we could better teach students how to innovate. So shouldn’t we be paying a great deal of attention to the educational method that produced, among others, Larry Page, Sergei Brin, Jeff Bezos, [...]
Bunche Montessori Early Childhood Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana, has embraced a way to give their students practical lessons in experiencing what some children face each day in order to get water. For the second year in a row, their month-long program, in support of The Water Project, has developed awareness and gratitude. For example, students [...]
Getting Involved All vibrant school communities need extra hands on deck, though the particulars for pitching in may vary from school to school. Teachers may welcome parents into the classroom to help with activities or to share special skills. Parent committees run many school-wide functions, such as art shows, class picnics, and fund-raising events. If [...]
Wake Forest Montessori supports the 21st Annual Buddy Walk that will take place on Sunday October 11th from 1:00pm to 4:00pm. Event Details: Where Spring Forest Road Park Raleigh, NC Starts 10/11/2015 @ 1:00 pm Ends 4:00 pm Check-in Time 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm Registration Cutoff 10/08/2015 12:00 am Donation Cutoff 01/31/2016 12:00 am [...]
Create an Ordered Environment Having a place for everything, on a child-friendly scale, encourages both independence and self-discipline. Children know where to find what they need, and where to put it when they’re done. An ordered environment also has fewer distractions, allowing children to focus on the task at hand. To make things accessible to your [...]
Tracking Your Child’s Progress Although most Montessori teachers do not assign grades, they closely observe each student’s progress and readiness to move on to new lessons. They may orally question a student about what she has learned, or ask her to teach the lesson to a fellow student. In some schools, students compile a portfolio [...]
Classroom Design The design and flow of the Montessori classroom create a learning environment that accommodates choice. There are spaces suited to group activity, and areas where a student can settle in alone. Parts of the room are open and spacious, allowing a preschooler to lay out strands of beads for counting, or an elementary [...]
Montessori Learning Materials A hallmark of Montessori education is its hands-on approach to learning. Students work with specially designed materials, manipulating and investigating until they master the lesson inside. Beautifully crafted and begging to be touched, Montessori’s distinctive learning materials are displayed on open, easily accessible shelves. They are arranged (left to right, as we read [...]