Biographical Information
What researchers' work inspired Montessori's work?
Itard and Seguin
What was Montessori's nickname for the Practical Life Avenue?
Humble tasks of daily life.
Montessori defines education: "Not what the teacher gives; education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual and is not acquired by listening to words but by experiences upon the"
What is environment?
The three foundational skills to early reading early reading success are phonemic awareness, blending and this skill.
Segmentation
When should rote memorization take place?
Only after experience.
True or False: It was never Montessori's goal to become a teacher.
True
In addition to building neuron connections, practical life lessons serve as a natural connection between school and what?
Home
What are the three factors in the Montessori Education Model?
The child, the teacher and the environment.
Metal insets are geometric shapes the child can trace and color. The indirect purpose of this lesson prepares the child for.
What are hand movements necessary to form letters?
In order to learn math, it must pass through the _____.
Senses
True or False
Montessori's work earned her two Nobel Peace Prizes.
False
She was nominated two consecutive years for a Nobel Peace Prize, but never received the award.
Classification of Practical Life lessons includes primary movements, care of self, gardening, gymnastics, grace and courtesy and this.
Care of the Environment
The true measure of a successful lesson is the child's level of?
Concentration
At what age do children typically exhibit language sensitivity because their memory is set?
What is 4?
Three concepts a child must understand for math success are 1. Our number system is a decimal system. 2. Names of numbers correspond to actual quantities 3. Each new number is a progression of a continual addition of?
1
What term did Montessori use to describe a place in which the child, set free from undue adult interference, can live its life according to the laws of development?
The Prepared Environment
All objects used in the classroom have these two requirements.
Real and child-sized.
What are the four main avenues in a Montessori Early Childhood classroom?
Practical life, Sensorial, Language and Math
When teaching vocabulary, what eliminates confusion?
Using classification
After associating quantities to the numerals 1-10 what is the next step in the math avenue?
The decimal system.
What two fields of study did Montessori try before being accepted into medical school?
Math and engineering
Biology
Montessori likened lessons to this kind of document in that the child is shown how to accomplish tasks, but in a more ordered and perfect way.
Blueprint
If lessons remain unused the ______________ has failed the child.
Environment
Montessori taught reading and writing simultaneously. "When he sees and recognizes, he _______; when he touches, he ________."
What are reads and writes?
Addition is the process of putting together.
Multiplication is adding the same quantity several times.
Subtraction is take away.
Division is?
Sharing equally.