Are your shelves cleaned? Have you reorganized your cupboards? Are they a safe distance apart? Decided whether the loft should be a…
Teacher Talk: Preparing for the New Year
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For Teachers
Montessori Monday: The Knobless Cylinders
A companion material to the Knobbed Cylinders, the Knobless Cylinders offer children extended practice with the relationships of height,…
Teacher Talk: Breaking Bread
Montessori teaching is a calling that demands self-care. We are intellectually engaged long beyond after the children have gone home,…
Teacher Talk: Teacher Motivation
For many of us, February days are some of the loveliest. The classroom is buzzing with a happy hum, parents understand the expectations…
Preserving their Spirits
The human spirit, that human spirit that we should first and foremost consider when we think of education, is glorious, enthusiastic; it…
Supporting Montessori in the Public Sector
It’s been almost fifty years since the rapid expansion of Montessori education brought this method to the public sector, and today, there…
Teacher Talk: When Children Are Hurtful
The child is capable of developing and giving us tangible proof of the possibility of a better humanity. He has shown us the true process…
Aggression in the Second Plane
If we think of the First Plane of development as a time when the child is building their cognitive filing cabinets, classifying and…
Teacher Talk: Observing Writing
We know that part of our work as Montessori teachers is to observe children. We observe to understand their development, that we may…
Nomenclature Cards and Purposeful Writing
Once children have begun to write letters, they are quickly motivated to apply that knowledge to useful, meaningful activities. But a…