What is the Montessori Method

:What is the Montessori Method

🌿 Core Principles

• Child-Centered Learning: Education is guided by the child’s interests, pace, and developmental needs.
• Prepared Environment: Classrooms are designed with age-appropriate materials that encourage independence and exploration.
• Hands-On Learning: Children learn through concrete materials that help them understand abstract concepts.
• Auto-Education (Self-Education): Students teach themselves through purposeful activity and discovery.
• Freedom Within Limits: Children have the freedom to choose activities within a structured environment.
• Intrinsic Motivation: Learning is driven by curiosity and satisfaction, not external rewards or grades.
• Mixed-Age Classrooms: Older children mentor younger ones, encouraging leadership and cooperation.
• Teacher as Guide: The teacher observes and supports rather than directs, facilitating independent learning.

🧠 Educational Focus

• Practical Life Skills: Emphasis on daily living activities (pouring, dressing, cleaning) to build independence.
• Sensorial Learning: Use of materials to refine the senses and enhance understanding of size, color, shape, and sound.
• Language Development: Phonics-based literacy, rich vocabulary exposure, and storytelling.
• Mathematics: Concrete-to-abstract progression using tactile materials (beads, rods, number boards).
• Cultural Studies: Exposure to geography, science, music, and art to cultivate global awareness.

💕 Social & Emotional Growth

• Respect for the Child: Each child is valued as an individual with unique potential.
• Peace Education: Encourages empathy, cooperation, and conflict resolution.
• Community Building: Emphasis on grace, courtesy, and working collaboratively.