Montessori School of Rome
Preschool in Rome, GA 30161
The Montessori School of Rome was founded in 1981 by Swarna Kumar. It was established to bring to the children of Rome and the surrounding community the opportunity to learn following the Montessori Method of education, a method first pioneered by Maria Montessori in 1907. Maria Montessori was Italys first female physician but, after her groundbreaking work in education, she became internationally known as an educator and child advocate. She based her educational method on careful observation of children and the environment under which they learned best. Her observations and philosophies, based on the principle of fitting a childs learning environment to the childs developmental stage, are as true today as they were almost 100 years ago, and years of research and practice have validated their importance.
The Montessori School of Rome serves students from 18 months through 6th grade, in a toddler program (18 months 3 years), a primary program (3-6 years/kindergarten), a lower Elementary Preschool program (1st 3rd grade), and an upper Elementary Preschool program (4th 6th grade).
We are a private school emphasizing, as do all Montessori schools, peace and tolerance, and admit students without regard to race, religion, or creed.
- Child Ages:
- 1.5 years - 12 years
- Rates:
- $$
- Licenses & Accreditations:
- Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning
- Preschool:
- Yes
- Hours of Operation:
- Months of Operation: Year Round
Days of Operation: M-F
Hours of Operation: 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM
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This system of education is both a philosophy of child development and a rationale for guiding such growth. It is based on the childs developmental needs for freedom within limits, as well as a carefully prepared environment, which guarantees exposure to materials and experiences. Through this, the child develops intelligence as well as physical and psychological abilities. It is designed to take full advantage of the childs desire to learn and his unique ability to develop his own capabilities. The child needs adults to expose him to the possibilities of his life, but the child must determine his response to those possibilities.
The main premises of Montessori education are:
Children are to be respected as different from adults and as individuals who differ from each other
The child possesses an unusual sensitivity and intellectual ability to absorb and learn from his environment that are unlike those of the adult both in quality and capacity
The most important years of a childs growth are the first six years of life when unconscious learning is gradually brought to the conscious level
The child has a deep love and need for purposeful work. He works, however, not as an adult for completion of a job, but the sake of an activity itself. It is this activity which enables him to accomplish his most important goal: the development of himself his mental, physical, and psychological powers.
