The Power Of Thinking: Students Learn How to Think In Montessori Elementary School

Montessori elementary school teachers guide students on how to think. This strategic approach is based on building mastery by exploring topics at one’s own speed, pace and passion. It is this power of thinking that defines Montessori students. In addition to what it is, they’ve learned the underlying concepts of why and how it is.

First Grade Montessori curriculum starts with the Great Lessons. These Big Picture looks encompass math, science, geography, language, the arts, history, astronomy and biology. We address everything--from the macro of the cosmos to the micro of the atom. 

Kids find their passion in these lessons. It drives a buy-in for lifelong learning. From the start, they will individually charge ahead on what interests them and learn more on their own because Montessori teachers have given them the freedom and time to explore underlying concepts of ‘how’ and ‘why.’ But really what we give them is the power of thinking--a process rather than a destination.

Collaboration & Cooperation is Crucial

Since children become more social as they grow, Montessori elementary school students work together in pairs or groups. They:

• Build social skills
• Learn how to plan and delegate
• Organize division of labor
• Share what they know
• Make group decisions
• Take responsibility for their actions and, 
• Celebrate success with their peers. 

Such socialization is helpful in learning how to work well with others while learning how others are different. 

Open-Ended & Creative Thinking

Rigid, traditional schooling needs to teach everyone the same thing at the same time at a desk, regardless of their level of understanding. Having to make sure everyone learns the same thing at the same time may restrict a child who’s ready to move ahead or may overwhelm a child struggling to keep up.

But a Montessori elementary school gives children input and control into how they’re taught; how they learn; and how they creatively think to develop and master each new task. 

Is that radical? No, it should be the norm. 

Guiding Children from Adolescence to the Teen Years

Lifetime Montessori School is in the bespoke education business. Our teachers are tailors who sew together academic, social and emotional learning to fit each child’s strengths and passions. This is not a ‘one size fits all’ mentality. Rather, it is a made-to-fit conceptual methodology.

Together, parents and teachers mold Montessori elementary students into unique individuals who have been taught how to think and the power of thinking. Their Lifetime Montessori elementary school education will prepare them for the next step in their academic, social and emotional journey—the teen years.