ec423 montessori slide show final
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Mohawk College student Soraya Elbard and her group prepared this presentation as an introduction to Montessori.TRANSCRIPT
MONTESSORIan induction into Maria Montessori’s
Educational Model for Children 3-6 Years
Photos presented are of Primary/Casa and Elementary Classrooms within the Dundas Valley
Montessori School
Welcome to
FIVE KEY CURRICULUM AREAS:
Practical Life (or Daily Living);
SensoryMathLanguageCultural or “Cosmic Education”:
Science; Social Studies, etc..
PRACTICAL LIFE
PRACTICAL LIFE CONTINUED…
MORE PRACTICAL LIFE MATERIALS:
PRACTICAL LIFE ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:FOLDING, CLEANING, WASHING (CLOTHES, DISHES, TABLES), POLISHING, BUTTONING, FASTENING, LACING, WATERING PLANTS, PREPARING SNACKS, SETTING TABLES, POURING WET AND DRY MATERIALS, ETC.
PRACTICAL LIFEAuthentic Activities (Work) & Materials
Practical Life
Independence;Control;Coordination;Confidence;Concentration;Community;Tolerance.
Preparing snacks for and eating as a
community…
PRACTICAL LIFE CONT’D:
“Grace and Courtesy Lessons”;
Care for Environments: Inside and Outside; Physical, Social and Cultural….
SENSORY DEVELOPMENT AND MUSIC ENRICHMENT…
1) the Brown Stairs 2) the Pink Tower
SENSORIAL AND MUSIC ENRICHMENT cont’d…
SENSORIAL AND MUSIC ENRICHMENT
Building Sensory Discrimination:
Taste: Smelling BoxesColour: Colour TabletsShape: Metal Insets; Size/Volume: Brown Stair, Pink Tower; Red Rods, etc.Weight: Thermic TabletsSmell/Odour: Smelling BoxesSound/Tone/Pitch: Sound Boxes; the BellsTexture: Rough and Smooth Boards; Fabric Box
SENSORIAL cont’d…
Attractive, scientifically designed sensory materials set the stage for mathematics in Montessori environments…
SENSORY DEVEOPMENT AND MUSICAL ENRICHMENT
MATHEMATICS
MATHMATICS….
LANGUAGE…
LA
NG
UA
GE
…
LANGUAGE: WRITING (CURSIVE) PRECEDES READING (!); LETTER SOUNDS ARE INTRODUCED BEFORE LETTER NAMES
Metal insets and shape-tracing prepare the child’s hand for writing, while letter sounds, matching games and letter-tracing (in sand, on chalkboards, with markers, etc.), prepare the child for reading….
LANGUAGE:Casa students usually “explode” into reading by four or five years of age…
Encoding (building words) precedes decoding (reading words) in Montessori….
LANGUAGE:
“CULTURAL” or “COSMIC EDUCATION”
“Cosmic Education” entails both “nature and supernature”: the natural world and humankind’s spiritual worlds….
CULTURAL/“COSMIC EDUCATION” Cont’d…
“Here then is an essential principle of education: to teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.”
- Maria Montessori, quoted in Lillard (2007), p. 234.
First Principle of Science, Mathematics, Language and Cosmic Education:
MONTESSORI’S “PEDAGOGICAL SCIENCE”
“One of the greatest mistakes of our day is to think of
movement by itself, as something apart from the
higher functions… Mental development must be
connected with movement and dependent on it. It is
vital that educational theory and practice…become
informed by this idea…. Until now, almost all
educators have thought of movement and the
muscular system as aids to respiration, or to
circulation, or as a means for building up physical
strength. But in our new conception the view is taken
that movement has great importance in mental
development itself, provided that the action which
occurs is connected with the mental activity going
on…. Watching a child makes it obvious that the
development of his mind comes about through his
movements…. Mind and movement are part of the
same entity.”
- Maria Montessori, quoted in Lillard (2007), p. 38-40.
radical educational ideas…
“The study of a child’s psychological development must be bound up with the study of his hand’s activities…. Those children who have been able to work with their hands make headway in their development.”
- Maria Montessori, quoted in Lillard (2007) , p. 56.
FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT, OF CHOICE all day long….
The secret of success [in education] is
found to lie in the right use of
imagination in awakening interest, and
the stimulation of seeds of interest
already sown. - Maria Montessori (quoted in Lillard (2007), p. 114).
These children have free choice all day
long. Life is based on choice, so they
learn to make their own decisions. They
must decide and choose for themselves
all the time…. They cannot learn
through obedience to the commands of
another.- Maria Montessori, quoted in Lillard (2007), p. 80.
FreePlay?
MONTESSORI OUTCOMES:
Montessori
IndependenceControl
Solid FoundationInner Peace
Care for the WorldTolerance
Respect for Nature
ConcentrationCoordinationConfidenceSelf-Esteem
Love for the Environment
OrderSense of Community
Compassion