Understanding Learning Disabilities

All the people on this impressive list of authors, statesmen, scientists, entertainers, and athletes have one thing in common � they are all...

How Montessori Helps Teachers Understand & Work with Students with ADHD

ADHD is a misunderstood disorder. Many people associate it with hyperactivity or with a child who fidgets, is constantly moving or talking, ...

What's All This About Copyright? How Copyright Law Affects NAMC Students

What if � � Someone copied your original photograph or video, sold it in volume, and became a rich and famous �artist� as a result? � Someon...

Understanding & Working with Students with ADHD in the Montessori Environment

My son was diagnosed with ADHD-I (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder-Inattentive) when he was 18 years old. In high school, he struggl...

Playful Learning in the Montessori Environment: Guided Play

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from...

Playful Learning in the Montessori Environment: Movement and Exploration

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. �Maria Montessori What You Should Know About Your Child,...

Playful Learning and Montessori: Play is Developmentally Appropriate

A child�s play is not simply a reproduction of what he has experienced, but a creative reworking of the impressions he has acquired. � Lev ...

Playful Learning in the Montessori Environment: Work and Play Go Together

He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence. �Mar...

Montessori Parenting: Some Thoughts on Holiday Gift Giving

It�s not how much we give, but how much love we put in giving. � Mother Teresa I met a fifth grade boy recently who was happy to share his f...

Montessori Values: Modeling Kindness During the Holiday Season

Maybe Christmas,� he thought, �doesn�t come from a Store. Maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more! � Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Sto...

The Absorbent Mind, Chapter 23: Cohesion in the Social Unit

The great task of education must be to secure and to preserve a normality which, of its own nature, gravitates toward the center of perfecti...