Working with Executive Function Challenges in the Montessori Environment

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control, is to betray the idea of freedom. �Maria Montessori The...

The Three-Period Lesson and Generalization: Helping Cognitive Processing

Along with controlled error and freedom to choose your own work, nothing is quite as Montessori as the three-period lesson. The three-period...

Difficulties with Executive Function in Childhood Development

A while back, we presented a blog called What is Executive Function? Montessori Perspectives . In that article, we discussed that executive ...

The Absorbent Mind, Chapter 19: The Child�s Contribution to Society � Normalization

The transition from one state to the other always follows a piece of work done by the hands with real things, work accompanied by mental con...

Montessori Parenting: Observing Sensitive Periods in Young Children

It was the children themselves who showed that they preferred one another�s company to dolls, and the small �real life� utensils to toys. �M...

Command Cards for Montessori Elementary Students

There are two main types of shelf work in the Montessori environment. The first is the Montessori materials themselves. The second consists ...

The Absorbent Mind, Chapter 18: Character and Its Defects in Childhood

It follows that the child�s character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered or the freedom favoring his development t...

Increasing Montessori Enrollments with Online Marketing

As I was driving through my neighborhood this week, I noticed small signs scattered about town that advertised the local Montessori school. ...

The Absorbent Mind Chapter 17: Further Elaboration, Part 3 - The Mathematical Mind

The results we obtain with our little ones contrast oddly with the fact that mathematics is so often held to be a scourge rather than pleasu...

The Absorbent Mind, Chapter 17: Acquisition of Culture � Imagination

Is the child�s mental horizon limited to what he sees? No. He has a type of mind that goes beyond the concrete. He has the great power of im...

Montessori Learning Doesn't Have to Stop in the Summer Months

Lately I have been hearing about parents worried about �summer brain drain.� Their worry seems compounded by the plethora of advertising on ...