By the time learners reach adolescence, their ability to take on the perspective of another person is well-developed. When you add this…
Empathy in the Third Plane
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Empathy in the Second Plane
If you believe what you see in the media, you might expect children in the Second Plane to be just plain awful, disrespectful and…
Empathy in the First Plane: 3-6
As infants and toddlers, children demonstrate initial kindness, especially toward people with whom they have a special bond. As they move…
Empathy in the First Plane: 0-3
Are children naturally empathetic? You may have heard of the phenomenon of infants crying in a nursery, reacting to each other’s cries in…
Montessori Monday: The Knobbed Cylinders
You’d be hard pressed to visit any Montessori early childhood classroom in the world and not find the Knobbed Cylinders on the shelf….
Teacher Talk: Concentration
When I was a much younger teacher, I had a student enigma, one of those kids who, despite everything I presented or didn’t, despite the…
Montessori Monday: Rolling a Rug
As we move past the transitional first days of school and the rhythms of the school year begin to be established, we will begin sending…
Teacher Talk: The Freedom to Interact (or Not) as Teachers
Our first goal as Montessori teachers is to prepare environments within which children no longer notice our presence. So, how come this…
Freedom to Interact (or Not) In the Second Plane
We know that one of the noticeable changes as children move into the Second Plane of development is their new interest in social settings…
Montessori Monday: The Freedom to Interact (or NOT) in the Montessori Classroom
If you think of school as a place in which children are all lined up in their desks or sitting around the same circle, staring ahead at…