" Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.
YOUNG MARIA MONTESSORI WINDOWS
If these important windows of opportunity are missed, the concepts become significantly more difficult for the child to learn.
YOUNG MARIA MONTESSORI FULL
By letting children choose the right activity at the right time, the Montessori Method takes full advantage of the child’s inherent desire to learn. The Montessori Method maximizes the child’s potential by providing carefully selected and relevant materials, and then allowing the child to choose materials based on their own inner impulses.
Within this “absorbent mind” stage, children also experience intense physical, mental, and emotional bursts of growth, which Maria called “sensitive periods.” During a sensitive period, the child can grasp certain concepts more easily and naturally than at any other time.Ĭhildren are instinctively drawn toward specific activities that satisfy these sensitive periods. They soak in information quickly and effortlessly. Maria discovered that children under the age of six have amazingly absorbent, sponge-like minds. Based on her insights into the way children really learn, Maria developed hands-on materials that appeal to, and correspond with the child’s developmental stages. Maria Montessori’s educational method started with a carefully prepared environment. Her new approach became known as The Montessori Method. Unlike any existing educational methods, Maria’s approach maximized the child’s innate desire to learn. Combining her years of scientific study with her keen observations of children, Maria developed a whole new approach to education. Much to the amazement of her medical colleagues, Maria accepted the challenge. In 1907, she was offered an opportunity to run a childcare facility in an impoverished part of Rome. Inspired by this initial success, Maria continued her enthusiastic studies of educational theory and child development. Two years later, many of these so-called deficient children could read, write, and do mathematics at levels comparable with “normal” children their age. She began to develop learning materials for these children. She soon discovered that what these children needed above all was mental and sensorial stimulation. Ever the scientist at heart, Maria carefully observed and studied these children. There was not much for them to do, or look at, or play with. Several children labeled as “deficient and insane,” spent their days in the clinic’s bleak rooms. There, she met the clinic’s youngest patients. She took additional classes and continued to apply until, at last, the medical school accepted her into their program.Īfter earning her medical degree, Maria began research at the University of Rome's psychiatric clinic.
Her initial application to the University of Rome’s medical program was turned down because of her gender, but Maria persevered. As a teenager, she studied engineering, another all-male area of education. When she was twelve years old, Maria was the only girl to attend the technical school where she studied mathematics. Maria Montessori had a childhood in which her mother believed in discipline. Maria Montessori was born in Anacona, Italy on August 31, 1870. Though young, Maria had already accomplished many firsts for a woman. Date of birth: AugPlace of birth: Chiaravalle, Italy Date of death: Education: University of Rome La Sapienza Maria Montessori Life Early Years Dr.
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