What's the difference between Montessori kindergarten and ordinary kindergarten?

Difference 1: Educational concept

Montessori kindergarten: the principle of free learning based on self-humanization.

Traditional kindergarten: emphasizing knowledge transfer and skill training, but not taking into account the child's personality development.

In traditional education, children attend classes collectively. At the same time, they all learn the same knowledge under the guidance of teachers. Whether children like it or not, they can only passively accept it. Children's ability to accept things is different, some are fast and some are slow, but teachers can't do differentiated teaching according to children's situation.

However, Montessori education pays more attention to individual development, that is to say, Montessori's learning style is not in the form of collective classes. He doesn't like forcing children to learn, and he doesn't like forcing children to learn things they don't like. The role of teachers is not "indoctrination" but "guidance". In Montessori classroom, teaching AIDS are open, and every child will "freely" choose his favorite job.

Difference 2: Team building

Montessori Kindergarten: Mixed age groups to promote the development of children of all ages.

Traditional kindergartens: according to different age groups, they are generally divided into large, medium and small classes.

Most ordinary kindergartens are divided into classes according to their age groups, which are generally divided into large, medium and small, and there will be corresponding restrictions on the age of admission. Montessori kindergarten implements the mixed age system, namely 0-3 mixed age and 3-6 mixed age.

Montessori believes that mixed-age classes are conducive to children's communication and cooperation. Usually older children will help younger children spontaneously, especially when they realize that everything they do will be repeated by younger children, and they will ask themselves to make positive and positive behavior demonstrations for younger children, while younger children,

You can get inspiration and role models from the works of older children.

Difference 3: Teaching environment

Montessori Kindergarten: The classroom is divided into seven areas: daily life area, sensory area, language area, mathematics area, science and culture area, art area and reading corner for children to choose freely.

Traditional kindergarten: a clean and tidy ordinary classroom environment.

There are also many differences between Montessori kindergarten and ordinary kindergarten in classroom environment. In ordinary kindergartens, the setting of the environment usually only requires cleanliness, and other aspects do not pay much attention.

In Montessori Kindergarten, the classroom is the environment, and Montessori Kindergarten pays attention to providing a prepared environment for children. Montessori classroom is divided into seven areas, namely, daily life area, sensory area, language area, mathematics area, culture area, art area and reading corner. Various teaching AIDS have been prepared in various regions to allow children to freely choose "work".