Montessori education

In 1990, Debbie Henry became a licensed childcare provider in her home. After seven years of serving children and families in her home, she opened as a sole proprietor and incorporated Children’s Montessori Center (CMC) in 1997. Located in the city of Spokane Valley, CMC is currently serving 90 children ages four weeks through 12 years and employing 26 staff members. Debbie and her husband Steve, the self-proclaimed “volunteer maintenance man,” love the children and families they serve.…

Freedom means the quality or state of being free. Freedom in Montessori Education requires independence before the child is given it. Freedom in the Children’s House does not mean that the child can do anything he wants to before he learns self-control. The child should know what is good for him, his friends, and his society. The freedom of the child should have limits. If the child interferes or hurts others, his acts ought to be intervened. Insolent and discourteous acts need to be corrected…

Students are smarter than a grade on their report card! In some schools students are given complete anecdotal evaluations instead of report card grades, where the teachers give written comments and they have a meeting. A large group of people agree for reasons such as how it will boost student’s confidence or how grades put extra pressure on a student. Some also agree grades don't completely measure everything that a student is capable of, and some say grades make students lazy. There are…

Malcolm X once said “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” The people preparing for the future are the students of today. The future they are preparing for is theirs and America’s. I have confidence that I can contribute to helping students create a future for themselves and others through working with students who have special needs. Due to students in SPED (Special Education) needing the curriculum tailored to their specific…

The notion that students can, and will pay more attention to subjects that interests them, as opposed to those that do not, is an important one in the designing of an ideal education system (Montessori, 1915 as cited in Murphy, 2006). Without this consideration, the student’s potential to concentrate will be measured by the amount of attention they are able to pay to subjects in school, subjects determined by the educator. Realistically, this potential may vary greatly when the student is faced…

and it is important to help a person grow in society. Numbers are symbols which we use to help us think and give us an idea like a sentence would. Montessori along with many other theorists understood that if mathematics was introduced to a child from early stage in their life, it would grab the child’s attention through their sensitive period. Montessori also knew that Mathematics is not difficult for anyone once it has been taught properly. Even in today’s era numerous shared worries linking…

Why do you want to become a teacher? This question evokes flashbacks of undergraduate education courses or uncomfortable cocktail parties. “To help students reach their full potential.” “To make the world a better place.” “To create change.” All of these are respectable, admirable answers that satisfy casual acquaintances or overworked professors, but educators are rarely asked an important follow-up question: what are you doing to ensure your students reach their potential and change the world…

environment. Maria Montessori, Edward Harkness, and Rudolf Steiner where truly revolutionary with each their own alternative method of teaching students in middle school that has changed the ways of teaching children worldwide and for many generations to come. With these new ways of teaching such as (Maria Montessori’s teaching method of allowing children to choose how they would like to learn, or Edward Harness’s teaching method of…

learning. The child should have similar freedom in the home environment, being able to use as much of the house work materials as possible. Ideally there would be child sized materials for this to take place. This is a very important aspect in a Montessori school. When a child is interested in an activity, the activity will be repeated and the child will go into a deep concentration. Therefore the child starts developing their inner discipline without the help of the teacher. This usually starts…

be a middle school math and science teacher. My major in middle grades education allowed me to become a teacher immediately following graduation. My first position was as a 6th and 7th grade math and science teacher at a public Montessori middle school. I knew little about Montessori education when I accepted the position, but through training, I learned about the philosophy and fully embraced it. Within the Montessori classroom, students are valued members of the classroom community.…