Helping Our Children Learn Through Diversity
Dr. Maria Montessori
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At Kidsland Montessori School teachers have taken intensive, year-long courses, studying under experienced master teachers who have themselves undergone an exacting teacher-training certification program of several years duration. Our Montessori teachers have earned their certification by passing rigorous practical, written, and oral exams.
There are no papers turned back with red marks and corrections. Instead the child's effort and work is respected as it is. Our teachers, through extensive observation and record-keeping, plans individual projects to enable each child to learn what he/she needs in order to improve.
Our Montessori teachers spend a lot of time during teacher training practicing the many lessons with materials in all areas. Our teachers are trained to recognize a child's readiness according to age, ability, and interest in a specific lesson, and are prepared to guide individual progress.
When the environment meets all of the needs of children they become, without any manipulation by the adult, physically healthy, mentally and psychologically fulfilled, extremely well-educated, and brimming over with joy and kindness toward each other.
Personality
Good personality plays a big roll for our Teacher. A commitment to the full development of the child to help the child's personality unfold. Our teachers stand back and take a supporting role when children have become engaged in their own work, with patience, a sense of humor, and a wide variety of interests, which helps to bring perspective to their work and enhance the children's lives.
Our Montessori Method is philosophically and practically different from other educational methods. At Kids Land we use the words "directress" or "guide' is sometimes used rather than "teacher" because of the different role of the adult in relating to the child-directing him to find the best way to learn from the environment rather than from the adult, and all of this comes from Teacher’s good personalities.
Montessori Teachers Teach Children to Care for Others
Montessori educational theorist espoused is a form of education for young children that considered them in their entirety spirit, mind, and heart. It prizes such inner human qualities as mind, emotion, creativity, imagination, compassion, a sense of wonder, reverence, and the urge for self realization, recognizing these as vital aspects of human existence.
Montessori's view of the child is that of a human person creatively unfolding from within. "We know," she says, "how to find pearls in the shells of oysters, gold in the mountains and coal in the bowels of the earth, but we are unaware of the spiritual gems . . . that the child hides in himself when he enters this world to renew mankind... Montessori sees spiritual powers as a form of wealth that must go into circulation so that others can enjoy them, wealth that must be expressed and utilized.
Montessori sees education as a help to the unfolding of the child's inborn psychic powers. Montessori proposes to unleash the constructive energy of the child, which maintains; has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Using as an example the facility with, which every child acquires his or her language of origin, Montessori finds within every child a painstaking teacher. "The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything. Montessori sees the teacher's task as "not to talk" but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity within an environment especially designed for the young child. The child's education is not acquired by listening to the teacher's words but by virtue of experiences in which the child acts on his environment.