What is Montessori education?

Montessori education is a method of education named after Maria Montessori (1870-1952), an Italian woman educator. From the book Scientific Methods of Education Applied to the Children's Home.

Montessori education was founded in 1907 in the slums of Rome as a method of education aimed at raising children who are independent, autonomous, responsible, caring and capable of learning.

In 1907, Montessori established the "Children's House" in the Roman ghetto. In 1907, Montessori established the "Children's House" in the slums of Rome to educate children between the ages of 3 and 6 years old, and she used her own original method of teaching, which produced astonishing results.

These "ordinary, poor" children, after a few years, a great change of mind, was raised into a smart, confident, educated, vibrant young talent.

Montessori's brand-new, educationally fascinating teaching methods were a sensation throughout Europe, and "reports of these marvelous children spread rapidly like wildfire". Many new "children's homes" were established, modeled after the Montessori model.

Features

1. Child-centered. Against the adult-oriented teaching point of view, the child as a separate entity from adults.

2. Different education. Oppose fill-in-the-blanks teaching, advocate from daily life training, with a good learning environment, rich teaching aids, let the children spontaneous active learning, build their own perfect personality.

3. Grasp the sensitive period of children. The most important thing is to follow the characteristics of the sensitive period of learning to get the maximum effect of learning.

4. Teachers play the role of facilitators. Teachers must have a deep understanding of the child's world of the mind, and know the child's developmental status well in order to provide the child with appropriate and timely assistance and guidance.

5. The development of a complete personality. The biggest goal of ECE is to help normalize the child.

6. Respect the child's developmental pace. There are no schedules or start/finish times so that the child can focus on developing his/her inner needs.

7. Mixed-age teaching. Children of different ages will imitate and learn from each other, and develop good social behaviors of children's helpfulness.

8. Abundant teaching materials and aids. Teaching aids are materials for children to work with, and through "work", children construct a perfect personality through repeated self-exercises.

9. Do away with the system of rewards and punishments. Adopting a respectful approach to the child fosters the child's budding sense of dignity.

10. Explosive teaching results. Adopt a respect for the child's inner needs