Maria Montessori

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Maria Montessori

• Developmental planes
• Valorization

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Developmental Planes

• Sensitive Periods

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• Have feelings for nature
• Have a deep and personal need to improve the
  society
• Are equally distraught with self-doubt

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Valorization

• The process the adolescent must go through in
  integrating a new and more mature personal
  identity with a sense of being capable of
  succeeding in life through his or her own efforts.

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4 Essential Characteristics of Montessori

• The ability to concentrate
• The need for and enjoyment of meaningful activity
  or work, leading to competency and independence
• The ability to evidence self-discipline or
  self-regulation
• Sociability or the desire to be responsible and
  contributing member of a community

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Student Quotes on Adult Roles

• Advises and answers questions and also be the
  voice of reason.
• The adult, in every way possible, should try to
  influence the child while using the practice what
  you preach method.
• To be a model to them by showing good examples.
  To teach them about new things and what they
  learned from their own mistakes.

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Student Quotes on Adult Roles

• An adult should be there to support the
  adolescent, like be there to catch them when they
  fall, but they should also let the adolescent do
  as much as possible.
• Adults should treat adolescents with respect,
  they need to listen more, be more open-minded
  about our opinions, treat us like adults.

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Adult Roles

• Educator
• Facilitator
• Mentor
• Observer
• Role Model

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Educator

• Draws out knowledge and information from others
• More than a teacher
• Leads students out to new places where even the
  educator has never been

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Facilitator

• One who makes things easier
• One who knows when to lead and when to follow the
  adolescents
• Bruce Tuckmans 5 Stages of Group Development

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Bruce Tuckmans 5 Stages of Group Development

• Forming
• Storming
• Norming
• Performing
• Adjourning

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Forming

• Group members rely on safe relations, patterned
  behavior where members desire acceptance and
  where they look up to a leader for guidance and
  direction.

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Storming

• Characterized by competition and conflict in the
  personal-relations dimension and organization in
  the task-functions dimension

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Norming

• Interpersonal relations are characterized by
  cohesion where members acknowledge contributions,
  community building, and maintenance solving of
  group issues. Members feel comfortable to share
  ideas and feeling.

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Performing

• The groups capacity, range, and depth of
  personal relations expand to true
  interdependence. The overall goal is productivity
  through problem solving and work.

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Adjourning

• Involves termination or closure of task behaviors
  and disengagement from relationships.