THE PREPARED ENVIRONMENT Montessori classrooms provide a prepared environment where children are free to respond to their natural tendency to work. The prepared environment offers the essential elements for optimal development. The key components comprise the children‚ teacher and physical surroundings including the specifically designed Montessori educational material.There are prepared environments for children at each successive developmental plane. These environments allow children to take
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Montessori education is a unique schooling philosophy in which students guide their own learning. Designed as an alternative to traditional schooling‚ this system of education has been around for more than a century. As the Montessori classroom is such a unique environment‚ the activities that occur within it often differ from those of a traditional‚ public school. As a result‚ writing in particular reflects the distinctiveness of the Montessori program. The history of and philosophy behind Montessori
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Approaches to early childhood education The Montessori Approach Maria Montessori (1870-1952) was born in Chiaraville‚ Italy. She was the first woman to enter medical school and “In july 1896 she became the first woman to gradute from the university of rome medical school and qualify as a doctor” (Flood & Hardy.2013) Montessori realised the importance of providing children with the right stimulation from her work wiith vunerable children in a psychiatric clinic in rome . Many of Montessori’s innovative
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Maria Montessori was considered ahead of her time. She was born in Chiaravalle‚ in the province of Ancona‚ Italy in 1870 to an educated but not wealthy family. Despite her father’s wishes and society’s conservative ways at the time‚ she studied science. She was the first female physician in Italy when she graduated medical school in 1896. She worked mostly with the poor because she saw vast potential in them. She was an unselfish person and she traveled Italy speaking of women’s rights and child
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Dr Maria Montessori was born in Chevalier in Italy on 31 st August‚ 1870. She was a great teacher‚ an honorable educationist and possessed divine inspiration with her ideas‚ principals and methods. She was the first woman in Italy to do a medical course. In 1896 Maria Montessori became doctor of medicine and represented as the women of Italy at a feminist conference at Berlin. In the same year she also had chosen as the chairman of hygiene at the woman’s college in Rome. In 1899 Dr. Maria addressed
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The Montessori approach to education follows the lines of developmental psychology and education should be an aid in life. lt is a comprehensive educational approach from birth to adulthood. Developmental education is concentrated on the phases of the individual’s growth from birth to maturity. It tries to respond to the child needs as he develops to help the process of his adaptation‚ without laying too much stress on the program officially imposed .Dr Maria Montessori wrote `education is to help
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Research paper on Montessori Education {Kierre Davis} (American Public Universty} Abstract This research paper intends to explain and describe factors and features of Montessori education and Montessori school. It illustrates the practical implementation of Montessori education. It is an old method of education operating since 100 years. It started from the indigent nursery school in Rome and afterwards‚ it continued to expand at a larger scale. Approximations specify that over 5000 schools
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MONTESSORI SYSTEM OF EDUCATION AND ITS IMPACT ON REAL LIFE A Dissertation By ISHRAT-UN-NISSA ASHIQ ALI VERTEJEE B.Com (Karachi University)‚ 1989 Montessori Diploma (A.M.I.)‚ 2002 B.Ed. (Indus University)‚ 2012 Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF EDUCATION IQRA UNIVERSITY‚ GULSHAN CAMPUS‚ KARACHI‚ PAKISTAN August‚ 2014 ABSTRACT Education is considered as the back bone of any Society. Montessori System of Education plays a vital role in the
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Montessori Method � PAGE �8� The Montessori Method Judge Edward Singleton Instruction Television College Prof. Eileen Roth PSY 41 - Lifespan Psychology July 7‚ 2007 � When Dr. Maria Montessori became the director of a school for mentally-handicapped children‚ she exposed them to an environment that was highly conducive to learning. After two years‚ the children‚ who had formerly been labeled _uneducable_‚ were able to pass a test with normal children. This dramatic success led her to study
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result in a child’s regression. Montessori first used the term normalization (Montessori‚ 1966) to describe the observations that she saw in her classroom work with children in Italy in the 1960’s. The concept of normalization is recognised as a series of characteristics that define the point at which children concentrate with unbroken repetition and acquire self discipline for a task or activity that ultimately results in self-satisfaction. Montessori (1966) identified the child’s conversion
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