by NWMontessori | Dec 16, 2012 | Childhood Education
(Originally published in Early Childhood News, by Marie W. Sloane, M.S.T.) “Why do the children just play all day?” asks a parent. “How do you know if they are learning?” Teachers in child-centered classrooms are often asked these questions because parents (and...
by NWMontessori | Dec 16, 2012 | The Montessori Method
(Originally posted in The Christian Science Monitor, Laura Edwins) Doctor Maria Montessori may have given her name to one of the world’s most well known education methods, but the woman behind the philosophy is not a well known feminist figure. In the early twentieth...
by NWMontessori | Dec 16, 2012 | The Montessori Method
(Originally posted by The Christian Science Monitor, Chris Gaylord) <i>Maria Montessori stands in many ways as the mother of alternative education. The Italian physician and teacher invented a new kind of school, one with self-directed learning, classrooms with...
