Search Montessori Method of Education

Birth and evolution of thought and method of education of the great Italian educator. Figure of great importance from the pedagogical point of view, Maria Montessori already evident from a young age his inclination towards the sciences, including biology and excels in school mathematics. Comes to the choice of university overcoming the obstacles of the hard time, especially people from his family, and enrolled at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Rome, graduating in 1896, was one of the first women to graduate in medicine. During his academic excel in different subjects, especially in Hygiene and Pediatrics, which then will be the basis for his famous theories and pedagogical approaches in the following years.


Thinking and Pedagogy

The Montessori Method is originated from initially 'observation of children with mental health problems and then be applied to all children. This choice was motivated by the Montessori with a simple explanation, whereby if a method could work on people with problems evident on a psychic level would give excellent results even on "normal" children. Montessori for the child is "A complete being, capable of creative energy and possessed of moral dispositions" adults are often being covered, and the inactive tablets. The basis of Montessori thought, and as a result of his famous method, there is child's freedom, By which you must leave circular for harmonious and balanced growth. With it you can develop your creativity exponentially, inherent in our humanity, but each person still has to be governed, with the right amount of attention to his wishes and his natural propensity for growth. In life freedom is as important as are the rules, Since our space ends where the other's begins, and this must be a rule to grow in mutual respect between human beings. A method that leads gradually to become more autonomous and at the same time to know to take care of others.


Scientific Pedagogy

The thinking part of the Montessori teaching science, ie scientific assumptions and objectives, And then switch to a 'careful observation of the subject, Who must live in one of his school, or, better yet, the school must accommodate the baby and then be designed around the needs of the child and not of a man!

The spaces shall be so designed and then built in a specific and simple, to create suitable laboratories where daily life is easy and useful to learn about simple actions "know how" every day something correct and practical.

The contact with common materials such as wood, cloth or chalk and support are crucial to classics such as Italian or mathematics.


The child is seen and supported on the basis of very specific steps:

* from 0 to 3 years: There is in the child absorbent mind, Where the 'intelligence works at an unconscious level, absorbing every environmental element. And the stage where they form the essential structures of personality.
* 3 to 6 years: Corresponds to pre-school education. In addition to the absorbent mind there is also the conscious mind. With the need to formulate thoughts more and more "logical".

Based on this thought expressed and theorized by Montessori was born in 1907 in Rome, the first Children's home aimed at children of the inhabitants of San Lorenzo district. A special house, built in a way that children can live as they really are: the furniture is designed on the extent of the child, who has the ability to interact actively with the material proposed to him, either single or as a community with other children and friends.


The material is as follows:

* analytical material, We analyze only one quality of the object: weight, shape and size, this stimulates the senses.
* material self corrective, Serves to educate the child self-correction of the error without the intervention of the educator.
* attractive material, It comes to handling and use of simple objects, acts in the game.

The child can choose to be alone and independently of the material, this will stimulate both the self-education is the 'self-control.