There are now thousands of Montessori schools in over 110 countries worldwide. Subsequently, she traveled the world and wrote extensively about her approach to education, attracting many devotees to her innovative pedagogical approach. She opened the first Montessori school - Casa dei Bambini or Children’s House - in Rome on January 6, 1907. Maria Montessori was an Italian physician, educator, and innovator, acclaimed for her educational method that builds on the way children naturally learn. Thus it falls on each person to research "real" Montessori for his or her child.Dr. This is the essenceĭue to a legal judgment years ago, the use of the word "Montessori" is not protected and can be used by anyone for any purpose, to describe schools, teacher training centers, and toys and materials. To discover a unique and individual way to contribute. Is superior not only academically, but emotionally and spiritually, aĬhild who cares deeply about other people and the world, and who works When work is respected and not interrupted, reveal a human being that The child's choice, practical work, care of othersĪnd the environment, and above all the high levels of concentration reached The potential of the child is not just mental,īut is revealed only when the complete "Montessori method" is To learn to use them, but the real value of Montessori takes long and It is easy to acquire materials and to take short courses That Montessori math manipulative (as an example) is all there is to the Reached by students in this system of education, miss the point and think Many people, hearing of the high academic level Observation guidelines left by her, that Dr. It is because of this basic tenet, and the Those who emulated her was always to turn one's attention to the child, Methods have continued to spread throughout the world. For an overview of Montessori work at this This was a 3-year, full-time program which is still taught In 1947 the Montessori Assistants to Infancy program wasīegun in Rome. Montessori stated thatĪge three was too late to begin to support the work and development Of children realized in the early years, Dr. In the 1940's, inspired by the amazing potential For information on this age level see: Montessori Montessori had many ideas for the child at Little from the unconscious to the conscious, treading always in the He learnsĮverything without knowing he is learning it, and in doing so passes Was romancing? Well, just this, which seems so fanciful as to be nothingīut the invention of a fertile imagination, is a reality. To carry in their minds the whole of learning: would you not think I doing nothing but living and walking about - came to know all things, Without schools or teachers, study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants Was as astonished as anyone at the realized potential of these children: The news of the unprecedented success of her work in this Casaĭei Bambini "House of Children" soon spread around the world, peopleĬoming from far and wide to see the children for themselves. Study "normal" children, taking charge of fifty poor children of theĭirty, desolate streets of the San Lorenzo slum on the outskirts of Montessori developed an interest in the treatment of special needsĬhildren and, for several years, she worked, wrote, and spoke on their In her work at the University of Rome psychiatric clinicĭr. The support of her mother, she began to attend a boys' technical school.Īfter seven years of engineering she began premed and, in 1896 becameĪ physician.
At age thirteen, against the wishes of her father but with
Maria Montessori was always a little ahead
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