Montessori Principles and Philosophy
Define the term sensitive periods, and explain how the teacher’s knowledge and understanding of these periods determines his/her preparation and custodianship of the prepared environment.
Dr Maria Montessori started her observational studies after opening Casa dei Bambini or Children’s House in 1907.
“It would be a great mistake” she says to believe that, by merely observing children, we were led to form such a new idea as that of the existence of a hidden nature in the child, and that such an intuition gave rise to a special school and a special method of education.”
Montessori at Casa dei Bambini discovered the world within a child, she believed that the child learn from her/his environment and creates his/her own world. She discovered the mental concentration of a child by observing a three year old child playing with knobbed cylinders. The child was showing an extraordinary interest of the material and was continuing to concentrate on her task whether she was disturbed by the other students singing around her. The child repeated the same task 42 times showing her love of repeating the task. Among all these observations she discovered that the children love to work in order. At early Montessori classes teacher brings the materials from the shelves and return the material back on the shelves at the end. Maria observed that the children were following the teacher to the shelf to observe the teacher returning materials back on the shelf. Freedom of choice, love of work, no punishments or rewards, lovers of silence, sense of personal dignity, reading and writing and spontaneous self discipline were among her other discoveries at Casa dei Bambini.
During the psychological development the child achieve things so marvelously. Maria described this psychic and psychological growth as ‘incarnation’; a mysterious force which enable the children to grow, teaches them to speak and ideal themselves. For a child to construct himself to conditions must
Dr Maria Montessori started her observational studies after opening Casa dei Bambini or Children’s House in 1907.
“It would be a great mistake” she says to believe that, by merely observing children, we were led to form such a new idea as that of the existence of a hidden nature in the child, and that such an intuition gave rise to a special school and a special method of education.”
Montessori at Casa dei Bambini discovered the world within a child, she believed that the child learn from her/his environment and creates his/her own world. She discovered the mental concentration of a child by observing a three year old child playing with knobbed cylinders. The child was showing an extraordinary interest of the material and was continuing to concentrate on her task whether she was disturbed by the other students singing around her. The child repeated the same task 42 times showing her love of repeating the task. Among all these observations she discovered that the children love to work in order. At early Montessori classes teacher brings the materials from the shelves and return the material back on the shelves at the end. Maria observed that the children were following the teacher to the shelf to observe the teacher returning materials back on the shelf. Freedom of choice, love of work, no punishments or rewards, lovers of silence, sense of personal dignity, reading and writing and spontaneous self discipline were among her other discoveries at Casa dei Bambini.
During the psychological development the child achieve things so marvelously. Maria described this psychic and psychological growth as ‘incarnation’; a mysterious force which enable the children to grow, teaches them to speak and ideal themselves. For a child to construct himself to conditions must