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QUESTION:
Motor development and refined control of movement are experienced through the exercises of practical life. Movement is the law of the child being. Indeed, he has a biological need to move. As a physician, Montessori understood the importance of movement. She called her exercises in this area “A help to Life’’.
How is motor development encouraged in Montessori classroom? Give examples of exercises that offer opportunities for development in motor development.
Movement is the law of the child’s being, he has a biological need to move. A newly born human remains embryonic after birth. The child at this stage is in complete in relation to power of movement, unlike the other animals that will stand up, run, jump and walk the day they are born. Also the vocal means of expression characteristics of the species is often there from the birth in the case of animals. Though the voices are faint and plaintive, puppies emit a real bark, kittens meow, and lambs bleat. They are endowed with such instinct from birth. “Animals have merely awakened their instincts towards their specified behavior,” (Maria Montessori, Her life and Work chapter XII, page 203). In the case of human baby, it is less complete physically and is much slower to develop its powers of movement. At birth, baby cannot raise himself, cannot speak, cannot walk, he lies inert and helpless for a long time. It takes a period of time before a baby begins to sit up, to crawl, to stand upright and to walk. These inabilities in human baby should not be attributed to muscular weakness but lack of co-ordination in the muscles - i.e. a condition which is due to the fact that the child’s nervous system at birth is incompletely developed. This does not mean that the child has a complete incapacity for coordinated movements. For instance, he knows how to suck which is a complicated action requiring accurate coordination of many muscles.
According to Maria Montessori, there is a two-fold development that
Motor development and refined control of movement are experienced through the exercises of practical life. Movement is the law of the child being. Indeed, he has a biological need to move. As a physician, Montessori understood the importance of movement. She called her exercises in this area “A help to Life’’.
How is motor development encouraged in Montessori classroom? Give examples of exercises that offer opportunities for development in motor development.
Movement is the law of the child’s being, he has a biological need to move. A newly born human remains embryonic after birth. The child at this stage is in complete in relation to power of movement, unlike the other animals that will stand up, run, jump and walk the day they are born. Also the vocal means of expression characteristics of the species is often there from the birth in the case of animals. Though the voices are faint and plaintive, puppies emit a real bark, kittens meow, and lambs bleat. They are endowed with such instinct from birth. “Animals have merely awakened their instincts towards their specified behavior,” (Maria Montessori, Her life and Work chapter XII, page 203). In the case of human baby, it is less complete physically and is much slower to develop its powers of movement. At birth, baby cannot raise himself, cannot speak, cannot walk, he lies inert and helpless for a long time. It takes a period of time before a baby begins to sit up, to crawl, to stand upright and to walk. These inabilities in human baby should not be attributed to muscular weakness but lack of co-ordination in the muscles - i.e. a condition which is due to the fact that the child’s nervous system at birth is incompletely developed. This does not mean that the child has a complete incapacity for coordinated movements. For instance, he knows how to suck which is a complicated action requiring accurate coordination of many muscles.
According to Maria Montessori, there is a two-fold development that