Cosmic Education: Helping Montessori Parents Raise Environmentally Aware Children

�� the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him by nature. This d...

Montessori Peace Education: Helping Children Cope with Natural Disasters

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, �Look for the helpers. You will always find people who...

Montessori Peace Education: Singing Peace Around the World on World Peace Day

Preventing conflicts is the work of politics: establishing peace is the work of education. �Maria Montessori Education and Peace, p. 24. Ca...

Quieting a Class the Montessori Way

We have all been there. All of a sudden, the noise level in the classroom gets so loud, you wonder how anyone can possibly concentrate. Norm...

Montessori Early Childhood Education: The Foundation of the Method

Education, therefore, of little ones is important, especially from three to six years of age, because this is the embryonic period for the f...

Montessori Today: Chapter 7: Freedom and Responsibility � Before Going Out

In the second plane, the children complete the foundation of their social selves. Through their reasoning minds and powers of imagination, t...

Montessori Today, Chapter 7: Freedom and Responsibility � Student Work Journals

The Montessori teacher�s specific responsibility is to aid human development through awareness of the children�s needs at each stage of self...

Montessori Today, Chapter 6: The Elementary Teacher � Work or Play

� the best [educators] could do was to compromise, reducing hours in instruction to the minimum, cutting out from the curriculum grammar, g...

Montessori Today, Chapter 5: The Classroom Environment

The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences. �Maria Montesso...

Montessori Today, Chapter 4: The Key Lessons That Follow the Great Lessons

It should be realized that genuine interest cannot be forced. Therefore, all methods of education based on centers of interest which have b...

Montessori Today, Chapter 4: The Great Lessons

In the beginning, there was darkness. Doesn�t that sound like a great opening to a great story? It is almost as good as �Once upon a time.� ...

Montessori Today, Chapter 3: The Age of Reason

The next period goes from six to twelve. It is a period of growth unaccompanied by other change. The child is calm and happy. Mentally, he i...

Montessori Today, Chapter 3: The Age of Morals and Ethical Thinking

It is at six years that one may note the beginning of an orientation toward moral questions toward the judgment of acts. The preoccupation b...

Montessori Today, Chapter 3: Montessori�s Second Plane of Development

Instead of dividing schools into nursery, primary, secondary, and university, we should divide education in planes and each of these should ...

Montessori: An Intentional Environment for Intentional Learning

The teacher must not content herself with merely providing her school with an attractive environment; she must continuously think about this...

Circle of Inclusion: The Development of Organized Work Patterns in Children

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 ...