History of the Approach
This child-centred approach to education was founded by Dr. Maria Montessori in the early 1900s.
What is Montessori?
Children will benefit from a progressive way of learning- by constructing their own learning and collaborating
What is the Reggio Emilia Approach?
This curriculum model was developed by Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian scientist and philosopher. The first school using this approach opened in Stuttgart, Germany in 1919.
What is the Waldorf Approach?
This curriculum model is based on plan, do, review.
What is High Scope?
This curriculum model is intricately connected to its founder's life, Loris Malaguzzi. It is the culmination of a community base of knowledge, conversations about children and their learning and the system Malaguzzi's studied, implemented and pioneered. By 1980, it was recognized as a collection thinking project known as the _ _ approach to learning, based on the evolution of Malaguzzi's ideas.
What is the Reggio Emilia Approach?
This model is based on the belief that children learn best, when they are able to choose what they are learning. The children are able to direct their own learning through the intentionality exhibited in the set of the learning environment.
What is Montessori?
The name of this curriculum model reflects it's high purpose and the scope of its far-reaching mission that was started by Dr. David P. Weikart, as the Perry Preschool Project in 1962.
What is the High Scope Approach?
This model is embodied by this quotation from its Founder: "Our highest endeavour must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility - these three forces are the very nerve of education."
What is the Waldorf Teaching Method?
Founded in 1916 in New York City by visionary educator Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Bank Street Model
Known as the developmental-interaction approach.It recognises that all individuals learn best when they are actively engaged with materials, ideas and people
Bank Street Model