We all know them. We have heard about the light in a dark tunnel, according to some, or hippie nonsense, to others. When it comes to it, everyone has their own feelings about Montessori. So, Andrew Mcaffee of the Harvard Business Review decided to share a little bit about his feelings on Montessori.
He says that Montessori has some cornerstones that we should take some inspiration from:
• mixed-age classrooms, with classrooms for children aged 2½-or-3 to 6 by far the most common,
• student choice of activity from within a prescribed range of options,
• uninterrupted blocks of work time,
• a Constructivist or “discovery” model, in which students learn concepts from working with materials, rather than by direct instruction, and
• specialized educational materials developed by Montessori and her collaborators.
