Between mass media and family travel, young children are exposed to all sorts of language about their planet. They may hear phrases like “going around the world,” “as the world
It can seem like our elementary children are only focused on friends (and frenemies!) during their elementary years. We hear about what happened at recess or who they sat with at lunch.
Adolescents exist between two worlds: they are no longer children but they aren’t yet adults. On this bridge to adulthood, adolescents need opportunities to develop real, meaningful, adult-level skills. They aspire to
In their first weeks of life, babies begin to focus their eyes and track objects. These small acts of visual control provide an important foundation for newborns who are building their neural
There is more to preparing for citizenship than learning civics. We live in times where elections and exercising our citizenship is vital to the preservation of democracy. Schools have an obligation to
In Montessori, we talk a lot about independence. However, one of the lesser known or understood aspects of Montessori is that independence is just a step towards being interdependent. As humans, we
As the Greek philosopher Sophocles observed in the fifth century B.C. “One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.”
This is the time of year many of our parents begin thinking about the future of education for their child and explore the idea of leaving Montessori for the traditional kindergarten. When
The Absorbent Mind Intellectual development is guided by the “absorbent mind,” the special psychic capacity the child has to take in the whole as well as all of the details of the
The Reasoning Mind The key characteristic of the second plane child is the high level of independent thinking and the rapid growth of his powers to reason and go beyond his own
The Emotive Mind Social development is guided by an “emotive” mind, a combination of inabilities, or purely abstract propositions. This quality of thought may be the reason why adolescents naturally object, argue
We foster the natural curiosity of each child into a lifelong love of learning and a passion for excellence.
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