Eps 1627: what is Montessori homeschooling
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If you are homeschooling an elementary-age child or children, you can either go with the traditional Montessori curriculum, or you can use units of study inspired by Montessori. Or, you can follow the loosely-followed KONOS curriculum for basic structures, while using Montessori-inspired activities for your unit studies.
Focused on specific age ranges from newborns through preschool through elementary, Montessori is one of the more highly developed methods you can use in the homeschool environment. Much like many of the other homeschooling styles, the Montessori style is focused on allowing children to learn at a pace that is appropriate for their potential and development. The Montessori approach to education helps children to learn problem-solving techniques, patience, self-discipline, and compassion toward others and their surroundings.
Dr. Maria Montessori believed in creating an environment that encouraged opportunities for self-directed learning by using hands-on, play-based activities. The Montessori method encourages your child to exercise his or her own independence, and it sets the stage for the environment in such a way as to accommodate each child in your family, regardless of age.
Once you have modeled the Montessori-style learning environment in your own home, you are likely to notice the ways that it promotes exploration, concentration, and engagement. Skiller Learning Montessori at Home provides materials and lessons used by Montessori schools around the world, but is also praised for use in home environments. Skiller Learning Montessori At Home is a simple approach for parents new to homeschooling and Montessori and looking for a solid orientation.
The North American Montessori Center has curriculum to teach in a classroom as well as to clarify homeschooling. The North American Montessori Center homeschool program provides an intensive early childhood curriculum exclusively for homeschoolers.
The Montessori Homeschool Program by North American Montessori Center is exclusively designed for homeschooling children three through six years old, providing step-by-step processes, materials, and templates on CD-ROMs for these three years of instruction. The M3 curriculum is Montessori-based, child-centered learning, designed for homeschooling parents who prefer to educate their children at home or at the pod, and offers consistent parent support worldwide. Montessori is also student-driven, but Montessori comes with a curriculum and teachers that help students select a learning style that is right for them.
Classroom manuals give details about how lessons and activities can be implemented properly Montessori-style, as well as explaining materials used in the early childhood Montessori classroom. How to Raising a Wonder Child The Montessori Way is a parents guide to building their childrens independence, creativity, and self-confidence using the techniques of Montessori education. own packets of Montessori-based preschool activities and learning games that develop self-reliance and independence through active learning, this authoritative, illustrated guide helps to raise confident, creative children.
Based on Montessoris core principles, children learn best through positive experiences, Teach Me to Do It Myself presents easy activities for children to explore and develop skills. With the Montessori Method, children learn in a prepared environment, often working in small groups, in order to foster social skills and cooperation. Much of the childrens day at the Montessori school is spent on learning hours, which provide a structure of workstations they can choose from.
Children in a Montessori classroom are moved around a lot in order to make use of learning materials, as well as taking part in a variety of practical life activities such as making snacks, watering plants, and cleaning. A Montessori in school classroom is a larger setting, with different shelves and stations set throughout the room and up along the walls, and with lots of space for children to walk to take their Montessori materials. Whatever space is allocated to the teaching, be sure that it remains clutter-free, yet still allows for easy access to the shelf, where children can find materials for art projects, reading, etc. One way of implementing childrens help with this is by devoting the last ten minutes of the day to a clean-up time.
Preparing materials together can be an engaging experience, and many Montessori materials from pre-school age are also useful for older children. That is, the various materials of Montessori lessons are designed to provide opportunities for children to express their interests in, and to learn, about various things. These materials are a way to lead the child in such a way that he or she naturally wants to learn about reading, writing, mathematics, history, geography, science, and more.
To begin homeschooling with Montessori, thoroughly evaluate and arrange a learning environment, provide opportunities for the child to spend time with children and adults of different ages, eliminate external motivators, and explore the various Montessori course materials which may lead the way in the teaching. Consider shopping with other friends who are using Montessori methods for their childrens homeschooling. While this would involve more of a Montessori in-home setting, it is still important to point out that to homeschool your children the Montessori way does not involve buying as much material as you would buy for the Montessori classroom setting.
It has been said that Montessori education is, essentially, making sure a child has what they need in their environment in order to grow and develop completely as a full-fledged human being. Create a Montessori-inspired family environment for children aged from birth through age 3, and discover how to lead children in building life skills.