Adulthood” Paula Lillard‚ director of a Montessori school ranging in age from 18 months to fifteen years‚ provides a clear and cogent introduction to the Montessori program for the elementary and later years. In detailed accounts‚ Lillard shows how children acquire the skills to answer their own questions‚ learn to manage freedom with responsibility‚ and maintain a high level of inte...morePaula Lillard writes a clear and detailed introduction to the Montessori program for the elementary and later years
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Next to the family‚ the Montessori classroom is the place of importance in the world of a child. The Montessori classroom is a social institution that not only determines the present state of the child but also their future. In “The Absorbent Mind”‚ Dr Maria Montessori wrote‚ “The most important period of life is not the age of university studies‚ but the first one‚ the period from birth to the age of six. For that is the time when man’s intelligence itself‚ his greatest implement is being formed…At
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Montessori introduced Exercises in Grace and Courtesy in reaction to the young child’s need for order. The child has a need to know and to absorb the social structures in order to be more at ease in his environment. Grace and Courtesy lessons give the child the vocabulary‚ actions‚ and steps required for him to build his awareness and responsiveness of those around him. This in turn gives the child a better sense of orientation in his social structure. The Primary Class is the perfect place to
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Montessori believed that the imagination be encouraged through real experiences and not fantasy. She felt very strong that this powerful force was not wasted on fantasy. It was important to allow a child to develop their imagination from real information and real experiences. Montessori believed that young children were attracted to reality; they learn to enjoy it and use their own imaginations to create new situations in their own lives. They were just excited about hearing a simple story of a
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(Maria Montessori – The discovery of the child) Dr. Montessori recognized that children are born with a particular kind of mind‚ one that is naturally inclined towards order. This ‘special’ mind is what gives humans the ability to make judgments and to calculate; it is how we have progressed in fields such as engineering and architecture. Dr. Montessori called this ‘the mathematical mind’ - a term borrowed from the French physicist and philosopher Blaise Pascal. Montessori felt that‚ if we
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to “a special sensibility which a creature acquires in its infantile state" (Montessori‚ 1966‚ p.38). Such sensitive periods were first discovered in insects by the Dutch scientist Hugo de Vries‚ but according to Montessori‚ can also be found in children and are very important to consider in teaching. Each sensitive period is a "transient disposition and is limited to the acquisition of a particular trait" (Montessori‚ 1966‚ p.38). Once the sensitive period is over‚ the sensibility disappears due
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Q 1 Sensitive Period According to Montessori and Why is it Important in Child Development Sensitive Period or Critical Period in Early Childhood - Why is it Important Sensitive periods in a child’s life are like windows of opportunities a child gets to learn different skills. The child is extra sensitive to the stimuli it gets to learn a particular skill at those periods. If they are missed‚ if the child does not get those stimuli‚ the opportunity is missed forever. This is an important thing
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The Montessori Philosophy Maria Montessori (1870-1952) was truly a radical in terms of her philosophy regarding children and the fact that she was putting it forward at a time when children were most often thought of as extensions of their parent‚ their parents ’ beliefs and culture‚ and a creature to be shaped in ways that would create an "appropriate" and "successful" adult based on those beliefs. The collective consciousness regarding childrearing was that it was important to replicate
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INTRODUCTION TO MONTESSORI NAME….. FAZEELAT IQBAL ROLL#..... D 5877 Q1. Discuss the life and works of Dr. Maria Montessori and why is she referred to as a lady much ahead of her time? If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge‚ there is little to b hoped from it in the bettering of man’s life. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind. Dr. Maria Montessori . Maria Tecla
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“Normalization comes through “concentration” on a piece of work” (The Absorbent Mind‚ pg 206). Montessori uses the term ‘normalization’ to describe this unique process a child experiences in a classroom. The first time hearing the term of normalization‚ myself wondering what does it means‚ does it means a child is not normal? After further reading‚ I’d discovered that a Normalized Child as describe by Dr Maria Montessori is one who has overcome himself and lives in peace and harmony with the environment preferring
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