Montessori
Why Montessori
The Montessori method of education, developed by Dr. Maria Montessori, is a child-centred educational approach based on scientific observations of children from birth to adulthood. Dr. Montessori’s method has been time tested, with over 100 years of success across the world. Maria Montessori was a keen observer who, through her study of children as well as through extensive travels around the world, learned that certain phases of development are universal and continue throughout our lives.
- Education for the 21st Century
- Joyful acquistion of academic skills
- Executive function skills
- Acquire indepedence and self confidence
- Uninterrupted 3 Hour work cycles
- Mixed Age grouping classrooms
- Carefully sequenced curriculum
- Enticing prepared environment
- Teacher has an unobtrusive role in the classroom
- Mainly individual instruction
- Children learn from each other
- Enabling focus and concentration
- The teacher guides children toward self-realization and self-correction
- Child reinforces learning through repetition and feelings of success
