Montessori education

Over a century ago, Maria Montessori opened her first "Casa dei Bambini" (house for children) in the popular district of San Lorenzo in Rome. It was of utmost importance for her to offer to the children the possibility to develop the different sensitivities in a frame adapted to their psychological needs, and respecting the children’s personal pace and individual features and at the same time awaken them to social life. Ever since the Montessori pedagogy has developed and nowadays counts more than 22.000 Montesori schools throughout the world.

Montessori school in France.

Presentation of Montessori pedagogy by AMS.

The life in class

• The class is a hive where each child is active. The functioning rules of the environment are explained to each one. The child learns how to respect and organize his personal environment,  which will give him the necessary balance for his concentration that will favor the anchorage of his apprenticeship.
• There is no need for correcting, classifying or grading systems. The educational material is self-correcting and the child is the first one who should be satisfied with his work. After observation, the teacher will suggest another approach or other material to the child who has not understood or forgotten the exercise.
• Each child is developing at his pace and according to his experiences and personal motivations. As is the same learning walk on his own, one day the child will be reading, writing and calculating after having gone through the preliminary processes. The child progresses according to his interests in his environment.