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What is Montessori Homeschooling (is it for me?)
The essence of Montessori education is raising children as thoughtful, self-aware, and engaged members of society — as whole people.
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What is Montessori Style Homeschooling?
Montessori Style Homeschooling is named after Dr. Maria Montessori. Maria was the first woman in Italy to receive her MD.
In 1907, Maria Montessori was asked to create a childcare center for underprivileged children. These children were thought to be unintelligent and incapable of learning.
Despite this, Maria was determined to create a quality educational environment for these children.
The Origins of Montessori Homeschooling
As expected, these kids were unruly. After all – they were believed to be incapable of learning, so nobody had ever placed any kind of expectation upon them. Of course they were unruly! Children become what we believe them capable of.
Children Become What We Believe Them Capable Of
Maria soon discovered that these kids showed great interest in working with puzzles and other hands-on experiments.
It didn’t take long and Dr. Montessori began seeing that these unruly, unintelligent children were not so unruly or unintelligent at all!
When allowed to help care for their environment, they exhibited calm and peaceful behavior. The kids seemed to just absorb knowledge. Essentially, these children began teaching themselves!
Maria Montessori went on to open several more child learning centers. The Montessori style of learning was, of course, practiced in each of these centers.
These learning centers focused on creating learning environments that fostered a child’s natural ability to learn.
Observing the Montessori Method
Not surprisingly, dignitaries traveled to Rome from all over the world, all eager to witness these ‘miracle children’ who were capable of concentration and self-discipline.
Remember – these are the same children who were supposedly incapable of learning. How amazing!
More than a hundred years later, the Montessori style of learning has been adopted in schools and homes throughout the world.
There are brick and mortar schools that teach children exclusively using the Montessori style of education. I have a dear friend who sends her kids to one of these Montessori schools, and she absolutely loves it!
Raising A Child The Montessori Way
Parents who practice the Montessori method of homeschooling can be seen teaching their children as young as 18 months old how to help cook, help with dishes and laundry, help with gardening, and all-around be contributing members of the household.
The Montessori method of homeschooling has a strong emphasis on child-led learning, which essentially means the child focuses on what she is interested in rather than what the teacher thinks she should be interested in.
The Montessori style also can be adapted and combined with one (or several) other styles of homeschooling.
A quick google search on Montessori style homeschooling brings up more than 6 million results. The resources are plentiful.
Researching and learning more about the Montessori homeschool method was really eye-opening for me!
I had no idea how much our family naturally incorporates this method into our learning style.
See? 10 years of homeschooling and I’m still learning new things. You are not alone on this journey, my friends!
Montessori Resources
Montessori homeschooling, or the Montessori style of homeschooling, can be used exclusively by purchasing and implementing a Montessori approved curriculum.
More information on the Montessori style of education can be found by clicking on the following links:
- The American Montessori Society
- Montessori.edu
- Living Montessori Now
- Montessori For Everyone
- The Mulberry Journal – This one was particularly fun to read
- Yellow Wood Success
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