Every mother wants to send her child to a pure Montessori kindergarten, but seeking a more ideal Montessori kindergarten is an unanswered thing. Montessori Education has standardization problems around the world, which is particularly serious in China. "Fake Montessori" are everywhere. Many kindergartens even just introduce Montessori teaching aids and promote themselves to do Montessori education. What is "normative" Montessori education? As the leading flagship for promoting Montessori education in China, Hong Kong has summarized some methods for judging kindergartens across the century, hoping to help some Montessori mothers and principals.
1. Look at the classroom layout and whether the area is divided according to the teaching aids function
Montessori classroom environment creation, first of all, respect the growth pace and inner rules of children, and prepare a living and working environment suitable for their size. The overall environment in the Montessori classroom should be mainly concise and does not require too many people to decorate. As long as the tones are soft and the environment is neat, the walls are decorated with simple pictures, and the desktop is decorated with bottles of flowers, it can create a warm atmosphere, making children happy to be in it, and then develop a sense of responsibility to maintain the environment
Montessori classroom is equipped with rich textbooks and teaching aids. These teaching aids play an irreplaceable role in developing children's intelligence, developing good habits and cultivating sound personality. Montessori Education uses these rich textbooks and teaching aids to plan the environment according to the principle of regional division, rather than to place them randomly. At the same time, these teaching aids must be continuously updated and deployed according to the growth needs of young children.
A standardized Montessori classroom is presented in five major areas - the field of daily life, sensory, mathematics, Chinese, and scientific and cultural fields. The environments in each of the five major fields are relatively independent and closed, and the environment should be created in accordance with the principle of clockwise.
2. See if the child has free time
Montessori education focuses on the free development of children and will give children a certain amount of time to choose their work freely, allowing children to explore and learn independently. In the transcentury Montessori Kindergarten, after the teacher shows his work, the children can freely choose their work. In order to protect the children's concentration, the teachers will not interfere at will when they work. Montessori Kindergarten is not like traditional kindergartens. Teachers will not let children do the same thing uniformly within the specified time, but let children freely choose their work content and freely control their working hours.
3. Cultivating children's independence
"Life is education". Montessori education pays great attention to cultivating children's independence from life practice. In the daily life field of cross-century kindergarten , the classroom has rich extended teaching aids such as grabbing walnuts, pouring water, squeezing sponges, scooping peanuts, knocking nails, twisting bottle caps, putting beads, peeling peanuts, cutting cucumbers, applying jam, eating snacks, toasting bread, etc., to further strengthen the ability to train children in elegance and etiquette, coordination of movement, hand-eye coordination, taking care of themselves, and taking care of the environment. When training children's daily life abilities, you should not over-arrange. Many children who have received Montessori education have strong living ability and independence.
When choosing a Montessori kindergarten, parents must compare more, inspect more, and visit more to truly choose a "pure" Montessori kindergarten for their children.
Some content of this article is excerpted from the cross-century education book "Supporting the Sun of Tomorrow - Theory and Practice of Montessori Education in Cross-century". If reprinted, please indicate the source!
