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...