Early in my career as a Montessori teacher, I had a three year old student in my class who would enter the classroom every morning,…
We can get a little sheepish when Montessori writes about the spiritual development of the child. We don’t want to offend anyone, and we…
There is a presumption of goodness in Montessori classrooms, in which teachers can be satisfied that they have done their work well when…
This is exhausting work, this teaching thing. We are asked to teach more, to accomplish more, to provide more, with less funding, less…
Taking a brief diversion from The Discovery of the Child today to highlight the work of Anastasia Higginbotham. Anastasia’s series,…
Montessorians catch a lot of flack for our insistence on offering children experiences with real things, on the avoidance of fantasy…
Montessori and the teachers who follow her method draw some unusual conclusions about the nature of childhood, sufficiently distinct from…
If you think back on some of your most memorable times with children, either as a parent of your own children or as a teacher in the…
Montessori is humbling. For a method that seems so straight-forward, so simple to implement, nonintervention, passive observation,…
What a powerful message for us, as teachers, parents and advocates, to be reminded that we can offer endless beautiful lessons for the…