Circle of Inclusion: The Classic Montessori Demonstration

In a previous blog , we discussed the value of inclusion and how Montessori�s tenet of following the individual needs of the child makes it ...

An Emphasis on Functionality within the Montessori Environment

In a previous blog , we discussed the value of inclusion and how Montessori�s tenet of following the individual needs of the child makes it ...

Academic Materials That Provide a Concrete Representation of the Abstract

In a previous blog , we discussed the value of inclusion and how Montessori�s tenet of following the individual needs of the child makes it ...

Personalized Instructional Goals Based on Scientific Observation and the Individual Readiness of the Child

In a previous blog , we discussed the value of inclusion and how Montessori�s tenet of following the individual needs of the child makes it ...

Children with Special Needs in the Montessori Classroom

There are many ways in which the Montessori environment can contribute to the developmental, social, and academic success of children with s...

Circle of Inclusion: Individualization within the Context of a Supportive Classroom Community

In a previous blog , we discussed the value of inclusion and how Montessori�s tenet of following the individual needs of the child makes it ...

Benefits of Mixed Age Groups in the Montessori Environment

The main thing is that the groups should contain different ages, because it has great influence on the cultural development of the child. Th...

Montessori and the Circle of Inclusion Project

In September 2015, the U.S. Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services issued a joint policy statement on Inclu...

Types of Observations in the Montessori Environment

This idea, that life acts of itself and that in order to study it, to divine its secrets or to direct its activity, it is necessary to obser...

Being an Attentive Observer in the Montessori Classroom: Our Primary Role

I have a confession to make. When I first became a Montessori teacher, I didn�t know the first thing about observing children. I thought obs...

Following the Child through Observation in the Montessori Environment

Since the teacher�s task was to free each child to learn, and since each child, responding to the inner laws of his own organism, had differ...

Educating the Whole Child in the Montessori Environment

The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child's whole personality. �Maria Montessori The Absorbent Mind, p...

History Timelines in the Montessori Lower Elementary Classroom

Illustrated as it must be by fascinating charts and diagrams, the creation of earth as we now know it unfolds before the child�s imagination...

Challenging Behaviors in the Early Childhood Environment

They [misbehaviors] are merely his reactions to an environment that has become inadequate...But we do not notice that. And since it is und...

NAMC�s 20 Lessons from 20 Years: Encourage Freedom of Exploration

As Montessorians, we welcome children to explore all the time. It is through their exploration and hands-on learning that they understand ne...

The Joys of Owning and Running a Montessori School

Education should no longer be mostly imparting knowledge but must take a new path seeking the release of human potential �Maria Montessori I...

Upper Elementary Field Trips: A Passage to Abstraction

The child's development follows a path of successive stages of independence, and our knowledge of this must guide us in our behavior tow...