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   Kathryn L Hillposted 5 years ago

   A Montessori classroom is an environment where children can learn via their own interests and motivations. They are drawn to various activities and didactic materials in the classroom according to what they have learned in regards as to how to use them and in regards to an inner drive to pursue them. It is nature at work, within the child, which builds the psyche via his use of his hands, brain and senses.
   
   The materials enable groups of children to teach themselves math, writing, and reading along with biology, art, history, etc. according to what has been placed in the classroom's environment.
   
   Montessori's teaching materials and methods are the way of the future. Freedom is provided within boundaries. Rest and activity are provided according to each child's own needs. Each child is allowed to follow his own interests/intrinsic motivations as he learns in a hands on and concrete way.
   
   If we could implement true Montessori principles and methods into preschools across the nation, a new day would soon dawn.
   
   Montessori based preschools across the nation are what we need!

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   Kathryn L Hillposted 5 years ago

   While we're at it:
   
   "So, if you create an environment where a child can learn on his own, the child will thrive. A child needs liberty to teach himself and materials to stimulate his senses and mind.
   
   Boundaries are required, however. Freedom without boundaries leads to chaos. Boundaries allow freedom.
   
   Who discovered this method of teaching children? Maria Montessori.
   She developed all sorts didactic teaching materials. She taught children in her care how to use them. Through using them properly,  the children taught themselves how to read, write and do arithmetic. They also learned geography, biology, music and art.
   
   In fact, Montessori discovered that children love to learn how to write, do math and read. Fish have fins and children have brains.
   
   She also discovered that children love to please their parents,
   the teacher or the adult in charge. Teachers, therefore, do not need to force children to learn or be obedient. Today, parents and teachers put too much pressure on their children/students. They have forgotten that a happy child becomes a mentally stable and physically robust child.
   
   Montessori also advocates an abundance of outdoor time. Waldorf schools feature many outside activities. Ideally, children need to be working with plants, flowers and seeds in gardens. They need to be observing bees, birds and skies. They need to splash in mud puddles, and hike in mountains. They need to swim in lakes and pools and they need to ride bikes, rollerblades and skateboards. They need to surf, they need to sail, they need to row boats. They need to fish, they need to sing, they need to paint. They need to feel the joy of life and not be forced to learn according to COMMON CORE TESTING.
   (copied from a past post.)
   
   https://www.adenamontessori.com/ius/hom … Laqlqd8bS0

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      peterstreepposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      " Ideally, children need to be working with plants, flowers and seeds in gardens."
      
      True, I remember that every child in the classroom had a plant on their table. As they where asked to be responsible for the plant and to take care of it and water it.
      It's a good way to learn children responsibility and care.
      We also had an allotment next to the school (the school was in the centre of the city) and so once in a while we went to the vegetables and played with some worms in the earth.
      We also had folkdancing, something that you won't find on schools any more. And as it was a multicultural school we celebrated Ramadan, Yom Kippur and Christmas.
      All in all I found the Montessori school a school where children were educated in a broad and personal way.

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         Kathryn L Hillposted 5 years agoin reply to this

         Montessori also provided gardens which children had access to. She really gave children freedom. Quiet freedom, not wild frenzied freedom. She valued the ability to concentrate. She discovered children have amazing powers of concentration when led by their own inner stimulus. This is why forcing children to learn too early and not in accordance to what they are naturally interested in is taboo. Encouragement is the key. Not force.

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            peterstreepposted 5 years agoin reply to this

            Encouragement is the key. Not force.
            
            completely agree.!!

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   clinicanareviewposted 5 years ago

   Dont force but you can teach your children with good examples.

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   Kathryn L Hillposted 5 years ago

   ... and firm, constant setting of boundaries. Don't say NO if you can't stand behind it.
   
   
   Hint: Boundaries provide constructive freedom.

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