What is Montessori
Dr. Maria Montessori
1870 ~ 1952
Montessori is "child-centered" education. In Montessori we introduce the "triad" of child, material, and guide ("teacher") where each part of the triad is as important as the other. In this construct the teacher is an observer, follower and guide who facilitates the child's academic, social, and intellectual exploration.
Montessori is a carefully created and painstakingly prepared environment where every element of the curriculum, the materials and the classroom is designed to engage the learner. Maria Montessori crafted an educational approach and developed materials, which correspond to the natural order of each child's individual development and make abstract concepts real through concrete experiences.
Absorbent Minds Montessori School provides especially designed, multi-sensorial materials that engage the children constantly in their own learning, allowing each to learn (and to understand) by doing. With cross-age groupings in three-year developmental cycles, children eventually internalize what they have learned by teaching the younger children and by being mentors and role models. In this way they also learn leadership and responsibility.
Grace and courtesy have been an integral part of the Montessori day for the past 100 years. How we create community, resolve conflicts, solve problems, and how we treat one another with honesty, care and respect are among the most important lifetime skills we can embed in our children's character. By creating a respectful, stable and interdisciplinary learning environment, Absorbent Minds Montessori presents a sense of order, understanding and respect in the world of each student.
Absorbent Minds Montessori School provides a well-developed, clearly defined interdisciplinary curriculum, which recognizes, understands and responds to the needs of each child in a developmentally appropriate way. Highly structured, it is the very formation of each environment at Absorbent Minds Montessori that allows for the intellectual freedom and exploration, which characterizes the Montessori classroom.