Education Part 2
What do you remember about the Montessori Method?
Collaborative Reading of Solved Exercise 2 on page 205
Maria Montessori was one of the most important early years educators of the 20th century. She was the first woman to graduate from the University of Rome medical school and became interested in education through her work as a doctor, treating children with special needs.
When she went on to establish schools for the disadvantaged children of working parents in Rome, she approached their education as a scientist. She used the classroom as her laboratory for observing children and finding ways to help them to achieve their full potential.
It soon became apparent that Dr Montessori had developed a highly effective teaching method which could be used with great success with each and every child. She began to travel the world, establishing schools, lecturing about her discoveries, and writing articles right up to her death in 1952. She was a true pioneer of child-centred education. Her innovative classroom practices and ideas have had a profound influence on the education of young children all over the world.
Montessori saw that children learn best by doing and that happy self-motivated learners form positive images of themselves as confident, successful people. She created specially designed resources to foster independence and a love for learning from an early age.
The Montessori approach is holistic, that is, it aims to develop the whole child. Fundamental to this approach is the belief that a child’s early life, from birth to six years old, is the period when they have the greatest capacity to learn.
Individual Exercise 1.4 on page 206 on Wordwall:
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Collaborative Exercise 1.5 on page 206
Individual Exercise 1.6 on page 206
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