What Is Montessori?

Montessori education offers a unique experience designed to help your child maximize their potential; an educational environment that is purposefully designed to meet their unique developmental needs and adults who are specifically trained to observe and put them in touch with exactly what they need at that very moment to learn.

A school is a group of people who come together with a common purpose; education is the experience that your child has with these people. High quality Montessori schools work diligently to provide a positive and formative experience that will serve the child now and for the rest of their life.

 The conventional educational system was designed during the industrial revolution, when the masses moved into urban areas to work in factories.

Created was an effective and successful method of training generations of factory and traditional workers. Children were instructed with extreme limits to movement, creativity, process, and timing. As the system grew with the population, groups became divided by age and ability, with many falling through the cracks. We see its limits today very clearly. It is no longer relevant in our modern culture.

Today, successful people work on projects not factory lines. They are rewarded for creating things and innovating. Respect for authority and reverence for wisdom was and will always be important, but today that looks and feels different. Today’s workforce is expected to adapt quickly to change within their profession, rather than working at the same job for life.

As we peek into the uncertain future of the 21st century, high quality Montessori programs offer a safe harbor for parents, a research-based method that has been proven to develop some of the brightest minds of our times and is well positioned to develop the movers and shakers of tomorrow.

But what exactly is Montessori education?

At its core, it simply is a way of being with children that allows each child to develop fully into the person they were destined to be. Just as you make every effort to ensure that your home is loving and safe – so that your child feels secure and well adjusted – Montessori schools work diligently to ensure that the physical environment, the teachers and the student community will meet your child’s needs with respect and support at each step in his educational journey.

Instead of expecting that the child pay attention to the teacher in front of a class of 30+ children, it is the Montessori teacher who pays close attention to the child which fosters a trusting relationship – an education partnership – in which the child will have faith that their teacher truly understands and respects them for the human being into which they are transforming. Rather than all children learning en mass on a predetermined timeline, there are as many timelines of learning in a Montessori classroom as there are learners.