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Montessori at a Glance

August 9, 2013 By Educational Horizons Leave a Comment

Students at the Center; Structure at the Forefront

Montessori education constitutes a major shift in how we think about what learning looks like, and how learning environments should be organized to support optimal development. This shift, which matches what neuroscience tells us about how the human mind works, comes down to two major concepts: student-centered activity and structure to support that activity. The table below offers more detail on how that shift takes place within a Montessori classroom.

Conventional Classroom   Montessori Environment
Textbooks, Pencil and paper, Worksheets
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Hands on materials, developed to enable discovery, self-correction, independence;
Specially developed reference materials
Intellectual and social development

disconnected
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Working and learning matched to the social
development of the child
Narrow, unit-driven curriculum
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Unified, time-tested curriculum
Individual Subjects orange_arrow
Integrated subjects and learning based on
developmental psychology
Block time, period lessons orange_arrow Uninterrupted work periods
Single-graded classrooms
orange_arrow Mixed age classrooms
Students passive, quiet, at
desks
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Students active, talking with periods of
spontaneous quiet, freedom to move
Students fit mold of school orange_arrow School meets needs of students
Students leave for special help orange_arrow Special help comes to students
Standardized, norm-referenced assessment
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Process-focused assessment, skills
checklist, mastery benchmarks

Montessori education constitutes a major shift in how we think about what learning looks like, and how learning environments should be organized to support optimal development.

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