Grasping the World: Geography for Young Children
October 1, 2022
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
Elementary Children are Focused on Friends
September 25, 2022
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
Achieving Economic Independence
September 19, 2022
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
A Montessori Education For Citizenship
September 9, 2022
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
Montessori: Key Characteristics of Early Childhood
November 18, 2020
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
Key Characteristics of Middle Childhood
November 18, 2020
The Reasoning Mind Key characteristics 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
Adolescent: Key Characteristics
November 18, 2020
The Emotive Adolescent 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 an
The Passage to the Elementary
November 18, 2020
In chapter 2 titled “Metamorphoses” of her book From Childhood to Adolescence, Dr. Montessori explores the elementary child’s “turning towards intellectual and moral” development: “The passage to the second level
Practical Life Works In the Children’s House Environment
November 18, 2020
“Practical Life” is the name coined by Dr. Montessori to explain an area of curriculum in the Montessori method that departs dramatically from traditional forms. Practical life activities refer to the
Lower Elementary Aids to the Practice of Writing
November 18, 2020
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS As the newborn fixes upon the sounds of human speech, and exercises the physical mechanisms needed to articulate these sounds, the mind stores impressions of meaning. The simultaneous
