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Teaching Tips

Diversity and Inclusion Resources

October 3, 2021 By Seemi

  The Fall 2021 issue of the Montessori Life magazine, published by the American Montessori Society, has a number of great articles to support and inspire schools and teachers in creating more inclusive environments for children. Pg 12 Students Rise Up for Social Justice Pg 14 Five Questions for Trisha Moquino Pg 24 A Conversation […]

Filed Under: Teaching Tips Tagged With: Diversity

Gender Creativity and Following the Child: A Montessori Connection

November 13, 2020 By Guest

by Ashley McLean Connecting the two concepts of gender creativity and following the child should come easily to us as Montessorians. For me, it took my born-male-child asking to wear a skirt to jump start my journey of understanding the link. The Gender Journey My gender education started when Ben (name has been changed for […]

Filed Under: Parenting, Parents, Teachers, Teaching Tips Tagged With: Diversity

Pearls of Wisdom: Working with elementary aged children

February 25, 2020 By Letty Rising

I recently returned from the AMI Elementary Refresher Course, and I enjoyed it so much that over the course of the two days I took 25 pages of notes!  Alison Awes, the presenter and a Montessori trainer, was a very inspiring and engaging speaker, breathing fresh life into some familiar concepts, lessons, and theories, while […]

Filed Under: Elementary, Teaching Tips

Why are we afraid of big numbers?

February 25, 2020 By Letty Rising

A second-grade teacher in a public school environment is well aware that, by the end of the school year, their students should be able to add and subtract fluently with numbers less than 100.  However, in a Montessori environment, children begin to learn place-value into the thousands beginning in the 3-6 children’s house.  At the […]

Filed Under: Elementary, Teaching Tips

Spiritual preparation, for reals!

February 25, 2020 By Seemi

by Karen Federice We talk about connection all the time in the Elementary classroom.  Our cosmic curriculum lends itself to the intrinsically interwoven nature of all things.  Jennifer Morgan says it beautifully in Mammals Who Morph, “Little by little, land, sea and air began to shape the mammals to come – Trees sculpting hands for […]

Filed Under: Elementary, Teaching Tips

Choice in the Elementary Classroom

February 24, 2020 By Letty Rising

Teacher Choice, Student Choice  Educators who follow the Montessori approach know that Maria Montessori placed a lot of emphasis on the idea of “choice.”  However, while the notion of choice is universally celebrated and held sacred for young children up until around the age of  6, this idea sometimes falls to the wayside when children […]

Filed Under: Elementary, Teaching Tips

How to Guide the Young Elementary Child

February 17, 2020 By Seemi

The youngest elementary children…the beginning of a new cycle.   When the 6 or 7-year-old child enters into the elementary classroom, teachers sometimes struggle with understanding this newly emerging second plane child.  When I was teaching and had the benefit of observing my students in their primary classroom environment before they transitioned into elementary, it was […]

Filed Under: Elementary, Teaching Tips

Is it a Request for Help or a Bid for Connection?

February 10, 2020 By Letty Rising

Identifying the True Need Under the Request Throughout my years of teaching and leading schools, I have witnessed certain personality characteristics surface and resurface again. There’s a particular one that I want to address and that has cropped up a few times during my career in education. Though the children are different, the script is […]

Filed Under: Elementary, Teaching Tips

7 Ways to Enhance Your Storytelling Skills

February 3, 2020 By Letty Rising

Telling a Story vs. Giving a Lecture in the Elementary Classroom Environment Have you ever been spellbound by a captivating storyteller spinning a thrilling tale that had you propped at the edge of your seat, eagerly awaiting the next piece of colorful imagery to pique your curiosity and tantalize your imagination? If so, you likely […]

Filed Under: Elementary, Teaching Tips

The 6 Year Old: The Age Of Tattling 

January 14, 2020 By Letty Rising

If you have taught elementary, you surely have noticed that your youngest community members have a tendency to tell on one another, otherwise known as “tattling.”  I remember when I was a teacher, I always had at least a couple of 6-year-olds who tattled frequently, and I also clearly recall feeling some annoyance with this […]

Filed Under: Elementary, Teaching Tips

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