The Absorbent Mind, Chapter 22
Discuss how the Montessori Education helps to develop a child’s concentration and helps the child in his social development.
In order to accomplish any task you need to be able to concentrate your mind for a time, it is a basic requirement for learning or socializing. Children not only need to be able to focus on tasks but also need to stay in the one place long enough to understand the task at hand, so they can listen to and follow instructions.
Montessori Education system offers remarkable methods of teaching children, the system believes in working with children who show attention problems and helping them develop the essential mechanism for learning – Concentration, which helps in social development of a child.
This system stands out because it does not create a divide between children who are smart and the ones, who are disoriented. According to the system a child’s mind should be dealt with sensitivity and utmost care, all disorders should be acknowledged for fine tuning before a child can actually start processing knowledge that is imparted to him. A child can only develop social skills after he has mastered the essential attribute of concentration
"Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education."
The Child, Society and the World p. 12, Chap II
Children from time to time experience some concentration or focusing difficulties, this for the most part happens when they are over-tired, over-stimulated or over-loaded. However some children due to their physiology or psychology have greater difficulty focusing on tasks and on other people, children may either settle into a task very