Montessori ?

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Little bird

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THis may be a stupid question to many people ... but could someone please explain what is the difference between the Montessori method and tradition method?

My son is 4 months old now and I am interested to put him in Woodlands in future, but not sure if I should put him into school using the Montessori methods...

many tks
 
Go to IMS school tour to understand the Montessori philosophy and of course u can read online also
 
From what I understand Montessori method is very child-centered and allows for freedom of play with children and the teachers teach from there. There is nothing imposed on them by the teacher as they look to see how the child is playing and then will teach appropriately based on that. Like Neha said, I would encourage doing a tour as it's not for everyone, but many have thrived in its environment.
 
Some basic differences are No black Board in class, child sitting on floors with their work. Each individual child is allowed to choose what he or she wants. Like our son is fascinated with blocks and puzzles he does that a lot but at the same time the teacher encourages him to do art work.
 
Are you joining the Woodland Montessori one or Traditional one?

I think the most best part of Montessori is to develop a very good character of the person in their young age.
My daughter going to a Montessori playgroup, and I found that she improved a lot in her manner and she learn to tidy up thing after used.
 
Montessori method starts with teaching children with mental problem.
The repetitive actions will make those children more concentrate on their works.
Then, Miss Maria Motessori replicated this method to normal children and it worked as well.

This method will train up children with high concentration in doing their tasks. The main theme of this method is to "let children do their owns work and they can accomplish by themselves". Also, this method is a "Children-centric", "Teacher as a directress", "Children has an absorbant mind and like to learning everything"

However, one point should be noted that this method is originally designed for children with mental problem. So, it depends on where you buy this method or not.
 
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Sorry that I couldn't agree Montessori method is for children with mental problem.

I've read few books by Montessori, and I am also raising my son like that. Actually what Montessori found was the developmental stage of children, the nature of children, and how adults should observe and prepare a suitable environment to help them growth. She believed that following children's steps are much more powerful and the most natural way to raise a child than any man's intervention.

Maybe I can say, she changed my mind about what a child is, and help me understand each stage my son was undergoing. It makes a great difference because adults' action will be different if you interpret a child's action differently. (You can choose to scold or wait to see what will happen if you understand why a child do an action.)

So far, my son is a cheerful and confidence boy, and I am very satisfied with his development. And I know a lot of famous people were also raised by this method in their childhood.
 
One more thing, regarding repetitive action and concentration, Montessori believed all children have concentration originally, provided that there is 'something' to attract a child keep doing, eg. it's easy to find baby indulge in open & shut door/drawer, throwing objects down etc...As the children need to do it repeatedly to understand what happen or gain certain ability, that's all normal children would do the same

So children repeat an actions initiatively. Usually it is the adult who break their concentration at first by stopping them, or asking them to do other things......

I think it should be for all children, but not all parents, as parents may find it hard to follow and the education in HK is walking in opposite direction...(push, push, push the children instead of following children's pace>.<)
 
hello babated,

tks for yr comments, they are enlightening. could you pls recommend any book? I would like to learn more about it. My son is 4 months old now and I think I've still got time to do more homework ... :)

thanks so much
 
Hi Little bird,

Here are the few books worth to read.

1) The Discovery of the Child
2) Secret of Childhood
3) The Absorbent Mind

The books are very good, though not easy to read, but you may find a new inspiration about children ^_^
 
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