Montessori Method: Jann Sialyn Millado

Montessori
method
jann sialyn millado
Maria montessori history
✗ At age of 13, she began to attend a boys’ technical
school. After seven years of engineering she began
premed.
✗ 1896 she became a physician. She applied to the
University of Rome’s medical program, but was
rejected. Maria took additional courses to better
prepare her for entrance to the medical school and
persevered. With great effort she gained admittance,
opening the door a bit wider for future women in the
field.
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✗ Maria’s early medical practice focused on psychiatry.
She later developed an interest in education,
attending classes on pedagogy and immersing herself
in educational theory.
✗ When she was appointed co-director of a new training
institute for special education teachers. Maria
approached the task scientifically, carefully observing
and experimenting to learn which teaching methods
worked best. Many of the children made unexpected
gains, and the program was proclaimed a success.
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✗ In 1907, Maria accepted a challenge to open a full-day
childcare center in San Lorenzo, a poor inner-city
district of Rome. The students were under-served
youngsters, ages 3 – 7, who were left to their own
devices while their parents went out to work. This
center, the first of its kind in the nation, and a high-
quality learning environment, became the first Casa
dei Bambini.
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✗ Using scientific observation and experience gained

from her earlier work with young children, Maria
designed learning materials and a classroom
environment that fostered the children’s natural desire
to learn and provided freedom for them to choose
their own materials.
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✗ To the surprise of many, the children in Maria’s
programs thrived, exhibiting concentration, attention,
and spontaneous self-discipline. The “Montessori
Method” began to attract the attention of prominent
educators, journalists, and public figures. By 1910,
Montessori schools could be found throughout
Western Europe and were being established around
the world, including in the United States where the
first Montessori school opened in Tarrytown, NY, in
1911.
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Let’s
What is Montessori
Start!
method?
• Natural development
• Creativity
• Problem solving
• Critical Thinking
• Time Management
• Uninterrupted concentration
• Children in touch of environment
“The greatest sign of success for a
teacher... is to be able to say, ’The
children are now working as if I did
not exist.”
- MARIA MONTESSORI
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MONTESSORI TRIANGLE
✗ Student
✗ Parent/Teacher
✗ Environment
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materia
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“All the apparatus must be meticulously in
order, beautiful and shiny, in perfect
condition. Nothing must be missing, so that to
the child it always seems new, complete and
ready for use”
-Maria Montessori
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materia
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materia
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“All the apparatus must be meticulously in
order, beautiful and shiny, in perfect
condition. Nothing must be missing, so that to
the child it always seems new, complete and
ready for use”
-Maria Montessori
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A closer look…
Montessori Traditional
classrooms are prepared

in advance based on classrooms are based on
observations of the teacher-centered lessons
students’ individual or activities.
needs. They include
student-centered lessons
and activities.
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A closer look…
school lessons are often
lessons are hands-on orated to students who
and active. Students listen passively,
discover information for memorize, and take
themselves. tests.
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A closer look…
In the Montessori
Time limitations are
classroom, children work mandated by arbitrary
on lessons as long as schedules in traditional
need be, and classrooms.
interruptions are
avoided whenever
possible.
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A closer look…
Montessori teachers act
the pace and order of
as guides and each lesson is
consultants to students predetermined. The
on a one-on-one basis. teacher must deliver the
They assist each child same lesson, at the same
along his or her own
pace, in the same order,
learning path. for all of the students.
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A closer look…
In Montessori schools,
In traditional schools,
“grade-levels” are flexible grade levels are not
and determined by the flexible and strictly
child’s developmental defined by chronological
range, i.e., 0-3, 3-6, 6-9, age within a twelve-
9-12, 12-15, and 15-18
month period.
years of age.
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A closer look…
Montessori curricula expand in Traditional curricula are
response to the students’ predetermined without regard
needs. to student needs.
Montessori curricula are Traditional curricula focus on

intended to appeal to the standardized test performance
child’s innate hunger for and grades. Children learn
knowledge. Children learn to because it is mandatory.
love learning.
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A closer look…
The individual child’s
work pace is honored Traditional classrooms
and encouraged in the expect all children to
Montessori classroom. work at the same pace.
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A closer look…
Montessorians
understand that the In traditional classrooms,
child’s self-esteem self-esteem is thought to
comes from an internal come from external
sense of pride in his or judgement and
her own validation.
accomplishments.
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A closer look…
The Montessori Method
was created by Maria Traditional education is
Montessori and is based on based on…well…
a lifetime of study and tradition.
observation with regard to
the way children really
learn.
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Maria
m0ntessori
“Education is a natural
process carried out by the
child and is not acquired by
listening to words but by
experiences in the
environment.”
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That’s
all!
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Thanks!
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