Teaching is hard. Of this there is no doubt. And as teachers, we are often challenged to present an infallible face, a superhuman wisdom,…
Teacher Talk: Modeling Gratitude
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Montessori Monday: The Long Chains
The Montessori Math materials offer concrete, manipulative experiences with concepts that most adults think about abstractly. Through…
Teacher Talk: The Manipulative Teacher
Montessori identified the need to manipulate as one of the Tendencies of Humans, those core qualities that we share across cultures and…
Scholars and Children
Language matters. The ways we refer to ourselves and the ways we refer to children, the special language we use to describe our work, it…
Montessori Monday: The Trinomial Cube
The Montessori materials all share certain qualities. They are beautiful. They are precise. They are didactic. They offer an isolated…
Teacher Talk: How to Say Goodbye
You know all the routines, the end-of-school traditions that help to bookend the year your classroom community has spent together, the…
Montessori Monday: The Fraction Insets
You’ve probably enjoyed any number of geometric drawings your child has brought home from his or her use of the Metal Insets. The Metal…
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,…
Montessori Monday: The Abacus
As children develop through early childhood, they are increasingly able to understand abstract ideas. This seems simple to adults, but…
Teacher Talk: Rest
It’s the weekend of Mother’s Day here in the US, and across the country, we’ll be celebrating mothers and mother figures, with flowers…