Mind over Matter
Contributing Factors to Self-Efficacy in Montessori Teachers
The Effectiveness of Montessori Practical Life Activities in Developing Fine Motor Skills in Kindergartners
Flowers for my Teacher
A visit to Montessori's first Casa dei Bambini in San Lorenzo, Italy.
The Inspired Child
Including art appreciation in the preschool program
The Light of India
A Twinkle in the Eye: Maria Montessori's Years in India
She Was Ours
Maria Montessori's Barcelona Years
A Montessori Morning
The 3 hour uninterrupted work cycle
The third factor in education: The prepared environment
The Montessori Prepared Environment
Third Year Montessori and Normalization
Retracing all the small steps it took to create an authentic, pure Montessori school.
Freedom within limits: A Montessori upbringing.
Maria Montessori advocates freedom as an ideal component for the young child; yet, the idea of freedom is a hard concept for most people to understand. The author revisits her own childhood and recognizes how it was build on freedom given and responsibility expected.
Anne Frank: A Montessori Child
Anne Frank, whose famous personal account of the Holocaust, 'The Diary of a Young Girl' went to a Montessori school as a young child. The author visits the school in Amsterdam, her home, the book shop where the diary was bought and the house in which she hid with her family for 2 years during the war.
This article explores a unit of study on Van Gogh's three bedrooms in a Montessori Primary classroom.
Van Gogh's Bedroom
Raphael's Madonna della Seggiola
Maria Montessori wrote "Among the pictures in our "Children's Houses in Rome we have hung a copy of Raphael's "Madonna della Seggiola," and this picture we have chosen as the emblem of the "Children's Houses." This article explores the origin behind this famous painting.
Literature plays a very strong role in helping us understand and value not only our own culture but helps us develop positive attitudes towards the culture of others as well. Hence the importance of introducing it as early as possible to the young child.
The Cultured Child
"We'll talk later."
Maria Montessori's year in Laren, Holland (1936-1939).