NBA Sensation Stephen Curry Featured in American Montessori Society Video. “Montessori has helped me become the person I am today.” “Montessori has helped me become the person I am today,” says Stephen Curry, point guard for the Golden State Warriors and the best 3-point shooter in a single season in NBA history. AMS captured Stephen’s …
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Dr. Maria Montessori believed that teachers should focus on the child as a person, not on a the daily lesson plan. Montessori teachers lead children to ask questions, think for themselves, explore, investigate, and discover. Their ultimate objective is to help their students to learn independently and retain the curiosity, creativity, and intelligence with which …
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In the past, many people pictured a child’s mind as a blank slate on which adults, through instruction, could “write out” the content of a good education. Likewise, another common metaphor was that of an empty bowl, waiting to be filled with the contents of the school’s curricula. Dr. Maria Montessori demonstrated that both concepts …
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Written by Linda Morgan, ParentMap Maria Montessori, Italy’s first female physician who created a new method of educating young children, once said that the “inner-directed life of the child has its own characteristics and ends, different from those of the adult.” In other words, children feel, act and behave differently than grown-ups. That concept may …
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This article was first published in Tomorrow’s Child magazine Upon visiting a Montessori classroom for the first time, one might wonder what magic spell has been cast upon these young children making them so calm and self directed. Another person might look at that same class and be confused by the children’s independence, wondering where’s …
