Role and Responsibilities of a Teacher in Montessori

The Montessori teacher plays an important role in the Montessori environment. The teacher needs to acquire a deeper sense of the dignity of the child as a human being, a new appreciation of the significance of his spontaneous activities, a wider and thorough understanding of his needs. The most essential part of the teacher is that the teacher should go through spiritual preparation. The moral preparation is necessary before one is fit to be entrusted with the care of the children in a principle hitherto chiefly confined to members of religious orders. According to Montessori such preparation should be first step in the training of every teacher whatever nationality or creed. She must purify her heart and render it burning with charity towards the child. She must learn to appreciate and should gather all those tiny and delicate manifestation of the opening life in the Childs soul. The teacher must be initiated, he must begin by studying his own defects, his own evil tendencies rather than by being excessively pre occupied with a “child’s tendencies, “with the manner of “correcting a Childs mistakes,” or even with the effects of original sin.” “First remove the beam from your own eye and then you will see clearly how to remove the speck from the eye of the child”. The secret of childhood.pg.no.149.
The first step an intending Montessori teacher must take is to prepare herself. She must always keep her imagination alive and when she begins her work she must have a kind of faith and she must free herself from all preconceived ideas concerning the levels at which the children may be. (Meaning they are more or less deviated) must not worry her. The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind faith that the child will reveal himself through work, she must free herself from all preconceived ideas concerning the levels at which the children may be.” The Absorbent Mind pg.276.
In The Absorbent Mind (pp. 277-81), Maria Montessori offered some general