Lessons from Montessori
Test 2 Question 1. Presentations are offered to children so that they can perform activities. How do you differentiate between activities and presentations?
Presentations are:
1. Introducing the educational materials to the child, so that the child can perform and work with them in a purposeful manner while,
It is said that the Activity of the child will become purposeful only when or if the materials used is for the purpose it has been created.
2. Presentations in Montessori has two forms, it can be direct presentations and indirect presentations. Direct Presentations has three types: Collective Presentations, Group Presentations and Individual Presentations.
3. Presentations are offered when the child is ready for it, after observing the child at work and we realized that he or she needs help to go further, sometimes you or we will be ask by the child or student, ‘‘Please show me how to work with this”?
4. Dr. Marie Montessori says that the presentations should be so attractive that it infuses life into the lifeless materials, she even said that the enthusiasm with which how adult present should be infectious.
5. It is said that the adult should and needs to prepare himself / herself for both forms of presentations -by reading, remembering and practicing all the time. The behavior of the adult in a House of children should be spontaneous and natural and, therefore the preparation should be such that this way of living becomes the second nature.
6. Presentations in Montessori are said to be given to those children with the intention of giving freedom to work.
7. It is also said that the presentations are given so that the child can perform the activity independently, thus this independent functioning is of utmost importance in the Montessori Method as it deems that human life is a series of conquests of independence.
Presentations are:
1. Introducing the educational materials to the child, so that the child can perform and work with them in a purposeful manner while,
It is said that the Activity of the child will become purposeful only when or if the materials used is for the purpose it has been created.
2. Presentations in Montessori has two forms, it can be direct presentations and indirect presentations. Direct Presentations has three types: Collective Presentations, Group Presentations and Individual Presentations.
3. Presentations are offered when the child is ready for it, after observing the child at work and we realized that he or she needs help to go further, sometimes you or we will be ask by the child or student, ‘‘Please show me how to work with this”?
4. Dr. Marie Montessori says that the presentations should be so attractive that it infuses life into the lifeless materials, she even said that the enthusiasm with which how adult present should be infectious.
5. It is said that the adult should and needs to prepare himself / herself for both forms of presentations -by reading, remembering and practicing all the time. The behavior of the adult in a House of children should be spontaneous and natural and, therefore the preparation should be such that this way of living becomes the second nature.
6. Presentations in Montessori are said to be given to those children with the intention of giving freedom to work.
7. It is also said that the presentations are given so that the child can perform the activity independently, thus this independent functioning is of utmost importance in the Montessori Method as it deems that human life is a series of conquests of independence.