Montessori Matters | The MCS Blog

The evolution of the role of the teacher in education is yet another way that Montessorians have been ahead of the curve by generations. The traditional teacher-centered “sage on the stage” model was challenged as the pendulum swung toward encouraging child exploration…and back again when it was established that most children could not be expected to discover all they needed to know–for example, specific reading or numeracy skills–entirely on their own.  The current research-

Dr. Montessori noted that the period between six and twelve was when a child’s imagination should be engaged and where the “maximum number of seeds of interest” should be strewn, “capable of later germination as the will becomes more directive…”     In her 1947 book, To Educate the Human Potential  (quoted below), Dr. Montessori accurately describes what is now validated by neuroscience:  that exposing the brain to many ideas in the elementary years increases the opportunitie

Some of my sweetest memories as a teacher (including in Room 1 at MCS thirty years ago!) center around playing Dr. Montessori’s Silence...

Earlier in the year, we welcomed parents of children in the Preschool & Kindergarten Program to campus for 'Ohana Days, where they...