History
The founder of the Montessori Method
Who was Dr. Maria Montessori?
This is how Montessori children are evaluated and assessed.
What is observation?
Students work in _______ hour blocks of “uninterrupted” learning time
What is two and a half to three?
Based on her own scientific observations, years of work with young children, and the work of other educators of her time, Montessori identified four ________ from birth to maturity.
What is Planes of Development?
This is where Maria's first classroom was.
Where is Italy?
The Montessori classroom is made up of materials designed to meet the students’ ________, ________, ________.
What is academic, social, and emotional needs?
Students may move freely from area to area and focus on the subject of their ____________.
What is choice?
This is the term Montessori used to describe the child in the first plane naturally absorbing of as much information as possible about her environment.
What is the absorbent mind?
Maria Montessori was famous for being the first woman to earn what type of degree?
What is a medical degree?
Without worrying about what _________ they might receive, children in the Montessori classroom have the time and space to focus on the process, the work needed to reach the goal. Students explore for themselves, wonder, question, and build the ability to solve problems by thinking about solutions from different angles.
What is grades?
Montessori students learn through ________ contact with either real things or with concrete models that translate abstract ideas into concrete form.
What is hands-on?
Montessori coined this term, "Erdkinder" as the environment suited to the child during this plane of development.
What is the Fourth Plane of Development, or Adolescence?
Maria Montessori had backgrounds in these three disciplines.
What is psychiatry, education, and anthropology?
Teaching children to trust themselves and to accomplish things ______________ prepares them for the challenges life brings.
What is independently?
__________ enable younger children to learn from older children and experience new challenges through observation; older children reinforce their learning by teaching concepts they have already mastered, develop leadership skills, and serve as role models.
What is multi-age classrooms?
During this plane of development, the child's thinking transforms from concrete to abstract.
What is the Second Plane of Development, or Childhood?
These two organizations support Montessori schools, teacher education programs, and national Montessori organizations around the world.
What is the Association Montessori Internationale and the American Montessori Society?
Within the parameters of the classroom environment and the guidance of the teacher, Montessori students experience the ________ to direct their own learning. They decide which works they will complete. They work at their own skill level and pace. They explore the classroom, communicate and work with peers, repeat work, make mistakes, self correct, and problem solve.
What is freedom?
Montessori teachers often teach new concepts to Primary and elementary students using 3 stages that gradually increase in difficulty. We call this the ________>
What is the Three Period Lesson?
This plane of development is characterized by the development of self understanding.
What is the Fourth Plane of Development, or Adulthood?