Choosing a Montessori environment for your child has many benefits:
- Each child is valued as a unique individual. Montessori education recognizes that children learn in different ways and accommodate all learning styles. Students are free to learn at their own pace, guided by trained teachers and individual learning plans.
- Beginning at an early stage, Montessori nurtures order, concentration, and independence. Developed educational strategies and designed materials with established daily habits to promote children’s development of self-regulation (independent of external influence).
- Students are part of a close, caring community. Older children are the best mentor and role models for younger students; little ones feel supported and gain confidence about the challenges ahead. Also, teachers model respect, loving kindness, and peaceful conflict resolutions.
- Montessori students enjoy freedom with limits (respect for themselves, others, and the environment). Working with good behavior parameters set by their teachers, students are active participants in deciding what their focus learning will be.
- Students are supported in becoming active seekers of knowledge. Teachers provide a prepared environment where students have the freedom and tools to pursue answers to their own questions. Internal satisfaction drives the child’s curiosity and interest and results in joyful learning that is sustainable over a lifetime.
- Self-correction is an integral part of the Montessori classroom approach. As children mature, they learn to look critically at their work and become capable of recognizing, correcting, and learning from their mistakes.
- Montessori supports social-emotional skills contemporary research indicates that children who learn in Montessori classrooms demonstrate stronger social-emotional skills in many areas than children in more traditional environments.
