Montessori Elementary: Four Core Benefits

Here are four core benefits that separate an independent learning, Montessori elementary school focused on how children learn with a traditional elementary school.

Benefit #1: More 1-2-1 Teacher Time For Your Child

The Montessori Method is based on students learning at their own pace and working on projects they have passion for. One key: your child gets more personal teacher time because there are fewer students per teacher. 

It is estimated that each Montessori elementary school student receives 60 additional hours of personal one-on-one teacher-to-student learning time per school year.

That is important because students learn using their teacher’s Socratic guidance. The teacher’s questions follow their questions, allowing students to think and learn concepts that define answers by DIY--doing it yourselves.

Benefit #2: Just Say No, No and No (To Tests, Homework and Grades)

Montessori elementary school students have no tests, no homework and no grades. Instead, caring, experienced, degreed and certified instructors continually observe and analyze your child’s strengths and areas of need. 

Teachers directly discuss with your child how to better understand each personal, elemental need—motivating students by using a ‘practice makes perfect’ methodology.

Benefit #3: The Value of Learning From Age-Range Peers

Additionally, your child learns from older age-range—not calendar year—students. 

Cooperatively and collaboratively, both older and younger students work together with other peers and flesh out ‘individual spokes in a wheel.’ That means they share, learn and present materials together.

One complaint from parents who came from a traditional elementary school: their child worked individually without much guidance--resulting in less overall learning.

Benefit #4: A Customized Education Where One Size Fits One Student

Our teachers do not point at the board and teach the same lesson at the same time to every kid regardless of his or her skill or understanding level.

A Montessori elementary school education is not an endless production line where one size fits all. Instead, one size fits one student because we offer a bespoke, customized education. 

Benefits That Harvest Our Best Leaders and Learners

Our teachers at Lifetime Montessori school invest nine years in planting learning seeds in children—from potty learning to Sixth Grade graduation—to harvest students who will be academically, socially and emotionally (ASE) matched to tackle their teen years. Your children are your annuity.

THIS is the Montessori Method:
top teachers imparting more learning because they have the time to do so
building conceptualized strategies and tactics into overall thinking/mastery 
creating ASE learning for all via age-range peer collaboration, and, a 
customized education based on your child’s skill sets, strengths and passions to embrace their curiosity and enhance their self-esteem.

Lifetime Montessori School in San Diego is the best investment you can make in your family’s future—an independent, customized, and value-oriented education. These are the ways our Montessori elementary school builds a ‘whole child.’  Together, can we build a blueprint for your family’s success?