Essential Elements
Essential Elements of the Montessori Approach: As long as the essential elements that make Montessori schools successful are in place, then it can be accomplished within public schools.
Teacher Help
Teacher help: We all need a little help from time to time. Maybe it’s reminders of strategies or concepts you already knew. Maybe you’ve tried everything with a student you can think of and now you are looking for new ideas or a different perspective. Maybe you are simply feeling stressed or reaching burnout, and are looking for an empathetic ear. Here is a supportive network to help make teaching a more sustainable career.
Hard History
Hard History sheds light on our difficult past. It teaches truth rather than whitewashing it. Sometimes, it’s hard to comprehend the inhumanity defining it.
Trust the Process
We wouldn’t pull a young plant up from its soil every few days to check on the progress of its growth underneath, we should approach a child’s developmental growth in the same manner. A child, just like a plant, will only thrive if we provide them with the love and care they need. Then we allow them the room they need to grow. We need to trust the process.
Prepared Environment
Prepared environment is a key component of Montessori philosophy. According to Dr. Montessori, everything within the environment has a purpose & fosters independence. Everything the child comes into contact with should also appeal to our human tendency toward exploration.
Classroom Management
Classroom Management: Over the past few years, I’ve noticed myself repeating some of the same pieces of advice. Here are five tips to classroom management for all teachers (for all ages).
Thank you
Thank you for a great second year! I began sharing a blog with my classroom families about 8 years ago. I went back and looked, the first blog was posted January 9, 2013. It was about a Research Project on Earth’s Aquatic Ecosystems. This past August, I was asked to find a new format for my classroom blog posts. This is when I started in earnest to write weekly blog posts on the grumbleservices.com website.
Imaginative learning
Imaginative Learning is necessary to child development. Seemingly meaningless activities like picking up a stick and using it as a knight’s sword or imagining a simple stone to be a powerful race car. Imagination is what gives us the creativity and problem-solving abilities we need as adults.
Art Therapy
Art therapy involves the use of creative techniques to help individuals express themselves artistically.
Through drawing, painting, coloring, collage or sculpting, psychological undertones in the art is looked at more critically.
Public Pioneer
Public Pioneer: Saying goodbye to a true trailblazer. Mr. Mark helped bring Public Montessori to Milwaukee.
Music Therapy
Music Therapy: More and more scientific research seems to be pointing to the same conclusion. Music is good for you.
Music imprints itself on our brains deeper than any other human experience. It brings back feelings of life when nothing else can. It’s powerful mind-altering effect can change one’s experience of time, space, body and relationship.