Chapters :
Peru, A Montessori Class without Montessori Materials
A Montessori Q&A Newspaper Column
Nepal, Montessori for Forgotten Himalayan Children
Tibet, Braille without Borders
Tibetan Children’s Villages
Montessori Teachers with the Dalai Lama in Sikkim
Russia, Montessori Help for Severe Disabilities
Morocco, An Orphanage, Village Schools, and a Garden
Thailand, Educateurs san Frontières (EsF)
Montessori at Home, 0-6
Montessori at Home, 6-18
A Grandparenting Literary Experience
Visiting a Montessori 3-6 class in London
Stages of Development Continue reading
Age 0-3
Mexico City 2018 – Art, Food, Music, Montessori
Graduation – Montessori Assistants to Infancy, 0-3, course
The main purpose of my visit was as an oral examiner for the AMI Montessori A to I (Assistants to Infancy), birth to three, course. But as always in this Montessori world a guest is greeted with grace and courtesy and a desire to joyfully share culture, which includes food, as Mexico City is famous internationally for this element. Continue reading
Fischer and Matteo, Musical Montessori Babies
Fischer and Matteo, Musical Babies
Children from Birth to Three have an “absorbent mind”. They take in everything that is going on around them.
A child in his earliest years is capable of tremendous achievements simply through his unconscious power of absorption, though he is himself still immobile.
— The Discovery of the Child, Maria Montessori
The role of the AMI Montessori Assistant to Infancy, guide or teacher for children from birth to three years, has always been first and foremost to support the parents, the child’s first teacher, at home. Much of this blog post is about that, using music as an example. Continue reading