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Montessori Revolution Nightingale Montessori Institute for Teacher Education From Nightingale Learning Systems, L.L.C.
What is Montessori Teacher Training Like?
Learn with the same energy and enthusiasm of children!
Learn the principles of science with the joy of discovery!
Learn to concentrate deeply as secrets of math are revealed!
Learn to connect with the mind of the child you teach!
Learn to present materials designed to teach critical thinking!
Philosophy and Curriculum Design • No empty vessel to be filled.
• Nurture sense of wonder.
• Bring outside into classroom.
• Bring the children outside the classroom.
• Seek out exploration and discovery of the natural world.
• Providing exposure is critical.
• New educational conditions required. • “Let us fuse our intent …with a single goal of creating conditions which will enable our children to grow into the way a human being in the eyes of God is supposed to be.” (Mario Montessori)
• Set up conditions that promote unconscious to conscious activity. • “Impressions do not merely enter the mind, they form it…We have named this type of mentality the Absorbent Mind.” (Montessori)
• Set conditions for spontaneous activity.
• “He learns everything without knowing he is learning it…treading always in the paths of joy and love.” (Montessori)
Assessment and Environment
• Child makes connection • Teacher will assess focus
•Assess independence • “We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself.” (Montessori)
• Assess ability for quite reflection.
• Solitude
• Assess attainment of pre-established goals. • Movement essential
•Assess dexterous constructive work. • “The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence…he wants to perceive it by his own unaided efforts.” (Montessori)
• Assess social skills • Collaborative opportunities
• Assess social integration and grace • Models for emulation
• Assess appreciation of elemental laws of life • Transformation as a connection to the universe
Math and Language • “The sensorial materials are specially made for children to absorb an experience of order.” (Montessori)
• Parallel to that of spirit from nature
• Reduced need for memorization • Higher order thinking introduced
• Problem solving is a creative act • Critical thinking
Science and Culture • Geography and Geology
• International recipes, music, art, stories, mapmaking, earth science
• Interdependence • Man dependent upon ability and goodwill of others
• Scientific Method
• “The imperative question is that of the care, or perhaps we might say, the culture of human life.” (Montessori)
• A culture for human regeneration
Teaching Peace “…as a social question of the highest importance.”
“What a Human is Supposed to be” • “Once on the proper path, the child will develop into a new kind of human, one that loves peace and abhors violence.” (Montessori)
Mission – Nightingale Montessori Institute For Teacher Education
Montessori 1870 – 1952
“…dedicated her entire life to spiritual renewal and to the progress of humanity through the child.”
Nightingale Montessori New Methods For New Goals
Nightingale Montessori Institute for Teacher Education From Nightingale Learning Systems, L.L.C.