Elements of Montessori Education Montessori education is a child centric method of education that caters to the complete development of the child. The three key elements of the Montessori method are - The adult (Directress)‚ Prepared environment & Montessori materials. The adult (Directress) The Montessori directress plays an important role in the development of the child. She needs to offer the child what he needs‚ but unobtrusively & indirectly. She should stimulate the child to work for
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DMT 101 Montessori Principle and Philosophy. Essay Questions. Dr.Maria Montessori referred to a child as “Spiritual Embryo” 1. What aspects of the prepared environment Cater to the nature of the “Spiritual Embryo”? 2. How may a Montessori teacher maintain and nurture his or her own spiritual outlook‚ so that the development of “Spiritual Embryo’ is not hindered? About Dr.Maria Montessori:- Maria Montessori was born in the year 1870 in Italy to Alessandro Montessori and Renlide
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clarity within the mind and to distinguish what is essential from what is accidental… To satisfy this need‚ he should have an exact‚ scientific guide such as that which is to be found in our apparatus and exercises.” Dr. Montessori – The discovery of the child‚ chap.6 Dr. Montessori describes sensorial materials as the key to the universe. Discuss the statement and give examples to support your discussions. Senses are points of contact through which the stimuli enter and make an impression
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Dorothy Mari de Graaf In this assignment I will be discussing the importance and different aspects of the Practical Life area in the classroom. “Watching a child‚ makes it obvious that the development of his mind‚ comes through his movements.” (Montessori‚1995‚ chapter 13‚ page 131.) The above clearly explains Maria Montessori’s conclusion that it is only through the practice of movement that a child can learn and develop. For this reason she decided to incorporate the area of Practical Life into
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3 2.8 Stage of child’s growth 3 2 DIAGRAM OF 8 PPP 5 2 POWER OF ATTENTION 6 3 PREPARED ENVIRONMENT HELPS TO MAXIMIZE POWER OF ATTENTION 9 3.1 Freedom. 9 3.2 Structure and Order 9 3.3 Reality and nature 9 3.4 Beauty and atmosphere 9 3.5 Montessori material 9 3.6 Development of community life 9 4 ROLES OF A TEACHER 10 1 OVERVIEW (diagram) 2 EIGHT PRE-DETERMINED PYSCHIC PATTERNS (PPP) Each child carries within himself a unique potential. In here‚ it is termed as Pre-determined Psychic
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1a. What is the greatest task of each child? Mother Nature has endowed every child with the necessary powers for a great task is that of building the adult human being. Dr. Maria Montessori emphatically states that the first and the foremost of all that the child needs to do is the great and miraculous construction of a healthy human adult. All the different aspects of teaching‚ child rearing or even child care should revolve around this thought especially when we are dealing with the two to six
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Clown Fish The clown fish (also known as the anemonefish) is a small species of fish that is found around tropical coral reefs. The most commonly known species of clown fish is orange with white markings but clown fish can be found in many different colours and can also differ in shape. There are 28 recognised species of clown fish that are found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The clown fish is also found as far north as the Red Sea and inhabits the Great Barrier Reef‚ on the Australian
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Task Analysis 1. Tactile Training:- To enhance the sense of touch 3.2 stereognostic sense 3.2.2 The Baric tablets Nature of the activity :- Table activity Material Required:- 1) Tray with Blind fold. 2)Baric tablet box 1 & 3 Presentation :- The teachers greets child "Good Morning Mary" How are you today? Today we will be doing a very interesting activity‚we will be working with Baric tablets. Would you like to do it
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“Education should no longer be mostly imparting knowledge‚ but must take a new path‚ seeking the release of human potentials.” In the above mentioned lines Dr. Maria Montessori wants to convey that purpose of education is not just transfer the knowledge from person to person or teacher to students but to help students release their full human potential. It is not just that teachers give and students take either way they get understood or not. “Education is a natural process carried out by the
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However‚ the other sensitive periods also play a part and to top it all off the child also has an absorbent mind. Geography is presented as an extension of the language programme in our rooms‚ because it contains aural written 7 read parts. Maria Montessori called her small geography set-up “an introduction to the world’. It has an holistic approach‚ starting with the whole and ending in details (start with the globe‚ then continents…eventually to the place where they live). The purpose with geography
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