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Why Montessori?
Montessori emphasizes learning through all five senses, not just through listening, watching, or reading. Children enrolled in Montessori Edmonds learn at their own individual pace and according to their own choice of activities from hundreds of possibilities. Learning becomes an exciting process of discovery, fostering concentration, motivation, self-discipline, and a love of learning. Montessori classes place children in three-year age groups, forming communities in which older children spontaneously share their knowledge with younger ones. For families seeking a Montessori kindergarten in Edmonds, this approach represents an entirely different and highly effective way to educate young children within a private school in Edmonds, WA setting.
Montessori
- Emphasis on cognitive structures and social development
- Teacher’s role is unobtrusive; child actively participates in learning
- Environment and method encourage internal self-discipline
- Individual and group instruction adapts to each students learning style
- Multi-age grouping
- Children are encouraged to teach, collaborate and help each other
- Child chooses own work from interests and abilities
- Child formulates concepts from self-teaching materials
- Child works as long as s/he wants on chosen project
- Child sets own learning pace to internalize information
- Child spots own errors through feedback from material
- Learning is reinforced internally through child’s own repetition of activity, internal feeling of success
- Multi-sensory material for physical exploration development
- Organized program for learning care of self, others and environment
- Child can work where s/he is comfortable, move and talk at will (yet doesn’t disturb others); group work is encouraged
Traditional
- Emphasis on rote knowledge and social development
- Teacher’s role is dominant, active child is passive participant
- Teacher is primary enforcer of external discipline
- Individual and group instruction conforms to the adults teaching style
- Same-age grouping
- Most teaching is done by teacher and collaboration is discouraged
- Curriculum structured with little regard to child’s interests
- Child is guided to concepts by teacher
- Child usually given specific time for work
- Instruction pace set by group norm or teacher
- Errors corrected by teacher
- Learning is reinforced externally by rewards, discouragements
- Few materials for sensory, concrete manipulation
- Little emphasis on instruction or classroom maintenance
- Child assigned seat; required to sit still and listen during group sessions