Montessori high school

Freesoul International Kindergarten (Shanghai, China). LePort School (Emeryville, CA, USA). Yass Montessori (Yass, NSW, Australia). Otrada International Montessori Centre (Russia). Seametrey Children's Village (Phnom Penh, Cambodia). Images from KidsRfuture. Ambiente Montessori Modelo Fundación Argentina (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Montessori Nursery School (Poissy, France). Montessori International School Genova (Genova, Italy). I hope you enjoy a peek into some of these classrooms. Have a…

Montessori education is not just for preschool anymore.

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High School is looming so my son and I are planning how he wants his 9th-grade year to look. Here are the resources he and I have chosen for his multi-sensory high school.

Unschooling High School If you are planning to homeschool through high school, have you considered unschooling? It’s not everyone’s cup of tea but, unschooling is a viable option that you should not summarily dismiss either. If you are a homeschooler, or are considering homeschooling, and you have not read John Taylor Gatto, now is a […]

Are you wondering what homeschooling high school looks like for a Waldorf homeschooling family? Today, I want to share what it looked like for me and my three children. One way of homeschooling high school with Waldorf.

When Junior High and Middle School was introduced in 1909, the children sat at desks, were lectured, and encouraged to study in preparation for a career as the primary focus. Over the past century, the curriculum has been updated by legislators, and new textbooks have been issued, but not

Today, I want to share some YouTube videos and other resources with Montessori public school ideas and inspiration.

A question that comes up quite often during our school tours is whether Montessori schools follow Common Core standards. Before we dive into this very popular question, let’s define the Montessori Method of education as well as the Common Core. The Montessori Method is based on self-directed activity, hands-on learning, and collaborative play. In a Montessori classroom,

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Mountaineer Montessori School on Instagram: ““The greatest sign of success for the teacher is to be able to say ‘the children are now working as if I don’t exist.’” ~Maria Montessori…”

How Montessori Center School meets the needs of 21st-century learners with time-tested techniques.

1. Teacher Training Authentic high quality Montessori schools have teachers who were trained by the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) or the American Montessori Society (AMS). Do not be confused by other acronyms when looking at a teacher’s diploma. 2. Teacher Tenure Montessori teachers who have found an authentic Montessori school to work in do not leave. Ask how long the teachers have taught in the school. A long tenure speaks to the school’s authenticity 3. Length of class time…

One hundred seventy 3-to-6-year-old students restarted their school year at the Post Oak School in Bellaire this week in one very large classroom: the school’s basketball gym. Harvey flooded the lower school campus at Bissonnet St. and Avenue B in

I have taught the Montessori Adolescent Program now for six years, and can think of no better way to prepare today’s young adolescents for any upcoming high school experience, public or private. I have had administrators from high schools meet me and thank me for sending them such prepared, responsible and respectful students. It isn’t me […]

Week three of our new series brings us to Holy Week and the Paschal Triduum. We stayed busy as always with our usual Montessori workload. I'm currently reading Montessori Today: A Comprehensive Approach to Education from Birth to Adulthood by Paula Polk Lillard. This book is a great overview of the whole Montessori pedagogy, and I've been highlighting the dickens out of it. One of the lines I felt particularly affirming spoke about the importance of Montessori children choosing their work…

Image 9 of 36 from gallery of Montessori School / Estudio Transversal. Photograph by Alejandro Arango