How The Montessori Method Teaches Children to See the Good in Others

How can we teach our children to treat others more socially, emotionally, and empathetically?

How often do we read the news about bullying?

Surely, it’s been going on forever.

Remember how another classmate teased, taunted, or made fun of you?

Of course. Those memories do not tend to go away.

Happily, today’s generation of educators and parents is tackling more than just academic learning. We’re teaching Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), too!

Core Takeaways of Montessori Elementary Schools’ Five Great Lessons

Students Build a Global Vision by Learning About the Universe and Their Place in It

For 110 years, Montessori Elementary Schools have engaged students about the world via a gifted schooling approach: teaching Five Great Lessons as intersecting elements in learning and understanding.

These lessons—presented throughout the school year as stories--are:

• The universe and the earth

• The coming of life

• The coming of human beings

• Communication in signs

Montessori Elementary School Difference

The strategic and tactical differences between a Montessori Elementary school and a traditional school are:

Building Curious Children

A core goal of Montessori education is building a love of lifelong learning in our children via the Montessori Method. This individualized learning system, via the 110 year-old teachings of Maria Montessori, Italy’s first female doctor, helps build gifted students.

In a private school Montessori setting, children are given the trust and respect to:

Make their own choices and judgments
Explore their interests at the pace they’re comfortable

Train Kids to Cope with Grief

Earlier this year, one of the parents of our Montessori School in 4S Ranch was lost forever in a car accident, survived by her husband and preschool-aged daughter.

This sorrowful event shook our students.

Immediately, we needed answers regarding how to train kids to cope with grief:

Green Space and School Performance

Researchers published a study on how vegetation interacts with elementary student performance. Using remote sensing techniques to measure the amount of vegetation at varying distances near 905 Massachusetts public elementary schools and then compiling statistics to compare that green space with standardized English and Math test results from third graders, the team worked on its calculations.

More Play Today Is Okay

Several articles backing the Montessori Method have been published recently concerning:

The Consequences of Forcing Young Kids To Sit Too Long In Class
How Schools Ruined Recess
Why So Many Kids Can’t Sit Still in School Today

The premise: kids are not being permitted to play long enough during school.

More Play Means Less Fidgeting

Fidgeting is a problem where kids are unable to sit still while being taught. Fidgeting students have shorter attention spans, are constantly moving and maneuvering in and out of their chairs, and are unfocused. To examine why we may be seeing an increase in student restlessness, let’s compare our Gen X primary and elementary school days with those of our Gen Z children. Maybe we can help explain how many changes affect our kids’ behavior—and in ways parents have never experienced.

Public School Curricula Changes

Montessori School Advantages

As parents, our most significant decisions are based on how to educate our children.

A core concern during their formative years is ‘what’s right for them—and us.’ Whether the question is ‘Which school’ or ‘Where is it’ or ‘Is our best choice,’ their educational path from toddler to grade school to college is always in our minds.

Skill Sets That Create Curiosity

How do we educate our elementary child today for a very different tomorrow? By building the whole child to have skill sets that create curiosity.

The future workforce will invite educated young adults into a world of emerging businesses in categories not yet invented.

Think of our parents. They never even touched a computer until they were teens. Even today, their digital skills are far below that of our Generation Z children.

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