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Designed to Stimulate and
Encourage
 The main objective of Children’s House Montessori
School is to provide a carefully planned, stimulating environment
which will help children to develop within themselves the foundational
habits, attitudes, skills and ideas essential for a lifetime of creative
thinking and learning.
Giving Children
Opportunity
 In a Montessori school, children are given the
opportunity to move from the concrete learning environment, the development
of motor skills and all the senses through self teaching, self
correcting materials, into the abstract world of ideas and concepts, all
at their own pace. However, in order to be successful and avoid frustration,
children must be allowed to fully experience the first stage before moving on
to the second. Children must have the concrete preparation before they are
ready to develop academically to their full potential.
Teaching is a Joint
Responsibility
In the Montessori educational program, parent involvement in the learning
process is considered crucial. According to Maria Montessori, children
learn from their environment. Adults promote the learning process by
serving as the dynamic link between the environment and the child. That is,
learning is not seen as the mere passing of information from the teacher to
the student. Rather, it is the process through which the child gains
insight about life from daily experiences, whether at school or
elsewhere. Thus teaching is a joint responsibility of the school and the
family.
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