Montessori Method

A Montessori education is designed to adapt to and fit a student's needs, interests, and development while still teaching core academic subjects and fundamental skills.

Dr. Maria Montessori (1870-1952) was an early expert on child development. She believed that children are motivated by a natural curiosity and thirst for knowledge. She felt that if a child were allowed to experience the empowerment of learning by his or her own choice rather than being forced, and if their skills for learning were honed, the child would be in a unique position to maximize their future learning situations.

​Dr. Montessori revolutionized education practice by shifting the paradigm of a teacher-centered system to a student-centered one. She believed that the goal of a school should be to cultivate a child's natural desire to learn, not to simply fill the child with facts. 
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"The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind."
-Dr. Maria Montessori

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Emotional Goals

• Help child to feel good about him or herself in a new situation, with new teachers and peers.
• Help child to be able to make choices and decisions with regard to his or her own actions.
• Help child to become more aware of his or her own feelings and to express them in positive ways.

Social Goals

• Help child to acquire skills, which will allow him or her successful entry into later social groups.
• Help child to recognize the good feeling that comes when he or she shares and others share with him or her.
• Help child to enjoy and function at increasingly higher levels of playing alone and cooperatively.

Physical Goals

• Help child to gain an awareness and control of his or her own body in routine daily situations.
• Help child to become involved in some daily physical activity.
• Help child to enhance the use of gross motor skills. 
• Help child to enhance the use of fine motor skills.

Intellectual Goals

• Encourage thinking and problem solving rather than rote memorization.
• Encourage each child to increase his comprehensive language capabilities.
• Each child will gain an understanding about his community and environment.
• Each child will begin to gain skills for bringing order to their world.