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October 17, 2023

Classroom Celebrations

Classroom Celebrations should ‘follow the child.’

In the classroom, this means allowing children to experience and engage in activities independently. The inverse is also true: It means resisting the urge to lead the child but instead to create an environment encouraging self-direction.

Therefore, classroom celebrations should not be a directive from above. Instead they should develop organically inside the classroom.

September 19, 2023

Grace And Courtesy

Grace and courtesy is the Classroom Management System designed by Dr. Maria Montessori. Dr. Montessori believed education should function as an aid to life. In fact, she viewed this to be the ultimate goal of education, holding even greater importance than imparting knowledge. Here’s why.

September 5, 2023

Prepared Environment

Prepared environment is a key component of Montessori philosophy. According to Dr. Montessori, everything within the environment has a purpose and fosters independence. All the child comes into contact with should also appeal to our human tendency toward exploration.

October 11, 2022

Print Dictionaries

Print Dictionaries: According to students, it’s so much easier to ask Alexa for a definition than to open a book.

We live in a fast-moving world. Being able to access information as quickly as possible is a good thing, right? Perhaps. Perhaps not. Online resources often can’t compare to their printed counterparts. And when needing a dictionary, this could not be more true.

April 5, 2022

Montessori Prepared Environment

Montessori 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.

March 29, 2022

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).

March 22, 2022

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.

February 15, 2022

Students with ADHD

ADHD is one of the first things suspected when a child’s behavior becomes problematic. But these behaviors can also be a result of other factors.

This is why it’s important to understand what ADHD truly looks like in the classroom. Observing children carefully is especially important when trying to find an accurate diagnosis for struggling students.

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Grace And Courtesy

Prepared Environment

Print Dictionaries

Montessori Prepared Environment

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