Montessori

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Montessori
Anyone who wants to follow my method should not
honor me but follow the child as his leader.
--Maria Montessori, 1912

• Jesús Ubaldo Quevedo
• University of St. Thomas
• School of Education

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What Is Montessori?

• About Dr. Maria Montessori
• Born in Italy in 1870
• First woman doctor in Italy in 1896
• Left medicine to teach in 1906
• Opened Casa dei Bambini - Childrens House
• Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize in 1949, 1950,
  1951
• Died in 1952

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The Montessori Method

• The Montessori Method
• Children teach themselves
• Prepared environment
• Follow the child
• Developmental planes
• Birth-6 years sensorial exploration
• 6-12 years conceptual exploration
• 12-18 years humanistic exploration
• 18-24 years specialized exploration

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Planes of Development
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What Is Montessori? (Contd)

• The Materials
• Mathematics
• Language

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Demo

• On the next slide you will see a demo on
• Multiplication of multi-digit numbers with the
  checkerboard
• 7436 x 42 312312
• Repeat as needed until you understand the method

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Montessori Concepts

• Prepared Environment
• Materials
• Normalization

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Prepared Environment

• The "prepared environment" is Maria Montessori's
  concept that the environment can be designed to
  facilitate maximum independent learning and
  exploration by the child.

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Montessori Materials

• Each material in a Montessori classroom isolates
  one quality. In this way, the concept that the
  child is to discover is isolated. For example,
  the material known as the pink tower is made up
  of ten pink cubes of varying sizes.

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Normalization

• Through continued concentrated work of their own
  choice, children grow in inner discipline and
  peace. She called this process "normalization"
  and cited it as "the most important single result
  of our whole work"

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Montessori Curriculum

• Click on the link below for an good example
• http//www.augsburgpark.com/curriculum.php