Blue Mountain Montessori

As an educational method, the Montessori approach focuses on the individuality of each child. The Montessori method encourages independence and freedom within appropriate limits, which is always linked to responsibility. Activities in the classroom are called “works” to communicate the idea that work is positive and fulfilling. Every work is carefully selected and placed in the classroom with a specific purpose. These self-contained and self-correcting works introduce concepts that increase in complexity and abstraction as the child progresses through the years. Each child proceeds at his or her own pace from concrete objects and tactile experiences to abstract thinking, writing, reading, science, and mathematics. This systematic approach allows the child to concentrate and organize their knowledge and problems solving skills in a clear way.

Over the past 100 years, Montessoris philosophy, materials and practices have spread around the globe and have been implemented in a variety of cultural settings.