Montessori For 21st Century Education

MONTESSORI EDUCATION
As a framework for analyzing and re-thinking issues
related to early childhood, primary education and societal development
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© 2012, Alan Evans, All Rights Reserved

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The Average Child’s Brain

The Superior Teacher’s Brain

Classrooms A Long Time Ago


Classrooms Today

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Lecture Rooms A Long Time Ago


Lecture Rooms Today


Cutting Edge Experiments


Factories A Long Time Ago


Factories Today


Factories In the Future - NOW!


Montessori Within The Foundation Phase
The Montessori method fulfills all of the
requirements for each of the seven areas of
learning.


Why do we need to re-think learning?
The brain is rapidly developing in the first four years of
life. It is not only responding to the child’s environment,
but it is also creating it. One can no longer assume that a
child’s personality, skills and talents are predetermined
before birth.


The Swedish Childcare Commission (1972) suggests that
dialogue pedagogy starts from the idea that there should be a
continuous dialogue between the child and the adult, on both
the inner and outer level, which implies a reciprocal giving
and taking of emotions, experiences and knowledge.


There is no such thing as a fixed and predetermined
IQ.
Each child has multiple intelligences that help one
understand the world.
Each of the intelligences must be explored and learned.
Montessori
multisensory
experiences
combinations of intelligences.

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Dr. Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori was a brilliant figure who
was Italy's first woman physician.
Montessori reflected a late19th century vision
of mental development and theoretical kin-ship
with the great European progressive
educational philosophers, such as Rousseau,
Pestalozzi, Seguin and Itard.
She was convinced that children's natural
intelligence involved three aspects from the
very start:
• rational
• Empirical - observation
• spiritual


The method represents an explicit idealism and
turn away from violence towards peace and
reconstruction.
During this period schools were being based on
the factory model of production and geared
towards assimilating immigrant children into the
American populous through a process of
“subtractive schooling” i.e. stripping away there
family, community and culture.

Friedrich Froebel applied his ideas to the education
of even younger children and began the
international
movement
towards
universal
kindergarten, which continues today.
The kindergartens neglected to place the child at
the pedagogical epicenter and remained in the
tradition of teacher-centered education.


Montessori strongly believed that the child's
mind absorbs the environment, leaving
lasting impressions upon it, forming it, and
providing nourishment for it. Montessori
warned that
‘the quality of the environment could greatly
enhance a child's life or seriously diminish
it’.

Children’s House
Sensorial

Language

Practical Life

Math

Cultural

Using their hierarchy, the “Superordinate level” denotes the broad category, the “basic level”
describes a group category and subordinate categories are specific exemplars. In other words,
(broad) ANIMALS (basic) DOG (subordinate) German shepherd or poodle.
In the Montessori classroom, the Superordinate Categories are: Practical Life, Sensorial,
Math, Language and Cultural.


On the shelves in each level, are their
“basic” categories.
Lessons for the Five Senses can be
found on the Sensorial shelf, for
example.

Children’s House

Sensorial
The five senses
Attributes of
geometry

Language
Handwriting
Letter recognition/
Word building/ grammar

Practical Life
Care of the person
Care of indoors
Care of outdoors
Mathematics
1-10, 1- 9,999
+ - x / sq- cubes
Math
Properties/ frac

Cultural
Arts, Sciences
Arts, Sciences
Cultural
Cultures,
Cultures,
Time
Time


subordinate categories.
On the Sensorial shelves, there are lessons for the 5 senses:
•Vision- these lessons are broken down into color recognition, identifying shades of
color, magnified vision, using binoculars (distance and depth perception), etc.
•Auditory sense materials that teach pitch, scales, loud and soft gradation of
•Tactile (sense of touch) lessons that teach rough and smooth, stereognostic memory
bags (using “feel” to recognize items)….etc
•Taste Tasting solutions foods and drinks.
•Smell (olfactory) smelling bottles, environment, herbs, flowers, perfumes, ect
Once we have learned to recognize individual attributes, we use our senses to
experience LENGTH, WIDTH, HEIGHT, DEPTH, CIRCUMFERENCE, SHAPES,
VOLUME…
Under the basic category CULTURAL, you’ll find the subordinate categories of Art
and Art history, geography, Geology, Zoology, Botany, Biology, Cultures (humanities)
and Time, for example


1. Start with real life
2. Move to 2 dimensional representations
3. Provide interactive activities
4. Attach language with incrementally increasing
complexity

With all of those materials available to students, one might think the classroom would
cluttered or over-stimulating. But instead, the classrooms are very homelike and quite
cozy. There is a place for everything, and everything in its place!


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Characteristics of a Montessori Classroom
Free Flow Movement - Areas Relating To Ages And Stages
Materials Which Relate To Gardener’s 8 Core Intelligences
Teacher As Observer And Director
Prepared Environment - Self Discipline - Work Cycle
No Discrimination Between Work And Play

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A Montessori classroom is a specially prepared learning environment
designed to meet the developmental needs of young children and to
appeal to their diverse learning styles.
The Montessori environment is also prepared to foster independence,
grace and courtesy and a sense of personal responsibility.
Each classroom is organized into five curriculum areas:
Practical life, sensory education, language skills, math and the cultural
subjects, which encompass the arts and sciences.

Teaching Method:
• No text books
• Children study independently
• Children learn directly from the environment,
and from other children
• Teacher is trained to teach one child at a time, with
a few small groups and almost no lessons given to
the whole class.
•She is trained in the basic lessons of arithmetic,
language, the arts and sciences, and in guiding a
child's research and exploration, capitalizing on
interests and excitement about a subject.

The Colour Wheel

•Large groups occur only in the beginning of a new class, or in the beginning of the school year,
and are phased out as the children gain independence.
•The child is scientifically observed, observations recorded and studied by the teacher. Children
learn from what they are studying individually, but also from the amazing variety of work that is
going on around them during the day.

Montessori saw a child’s relationship with the environment as the
key to his or her self-understanding.
Education is not acquired by listening to words, but in virtue of
experiences in which the child acts on his environment.
(Montessori 1967)

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Children need organized learning environments and
educational materials that provide enriching
meaningful experiences to support their cognitive
development.

Gardner, too, emphasizes the importance of the environment
on the development of human capabilities. Gardner believes
that
the "smarter" the environment and the more powerful the
interventions and resources, the more competent individuals
will become and the less important will be their particular
genetic inheritance.
He asserts that even individuals who seem gifted in a specific
intelligence will accomplish little if they are not exposed to
resources and materials that support that intelligence.

Children are intrinsically motivated to learn and they
need the opportunities to explore this. Children
should not be forced to do or learn something; the
will and perseverance should come from them.


Characteristics

Montessori Representation

Linguistic

Play with words, enjoys stories, interest in
sounds of language (phonics)

LANGUAGE
AREA:
Sandpaper letters,
moveable alphabet, insets for design, stories,
writing

Logical/Mathematical

Exploration of patterns, counting, reasoning,
problem solving

SENSORIAL/MATHS
cylinders, solid cylinders,

Spatial/Visual

Visualization of concepts

PRACTICAL LIFE: Order in the environment.
Specific place for each material

Bodily/Kinesthetic

Strong motor skills and coordination. Learning
through movement

Intelligence

Musical

Naturalist

Ability to produce and appreciate pitch,
rhythm.
Understanding
of
musical
expressiveness

Classification of living things – plants, animals,
features of the natural world

Intrapersonal

Understanding of one’s self, ability
discriminate and act on one’s feelings

Interpersonal

Ability to understand others and work well
together. Availability of leadership roles

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AREA:

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AREAS
OF
CLASSROOM
OUTDOORS CURRICULUM:

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MUSIC AREA: Montessori bells, songs, rhymes,
music specialists

GEOGRAPHY
&
BIOLOGY
AREA:
Geography and social studies curriculum, care of
indoor and outdoor environment
Respect of personal spaces, ability to choose to
work alone

Montessori’s Response To Gardener’s Theory Of
Multiple Intelligence adapted by A Evans


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Each lesson leads to another in a spiral of learning, with the
curriculum building carefully over time.

Sensorial Education - Multi Sensory Materials
Montessori’s approach was far in
advance
of
the
general
psychological understanding of her
time.
Montessori
developed
materials
and
a
prepared
environment for the intellectual
training through sensory motor
modalities for children aged three
to six years of age.

Look At The Child
Dr. Montessori discovered the child’s
true nature by accident while observing
young children in their free, self
directed activity. Building on Seguin’s
work and materials, Dr. Montessori
found that young children came to
acquire surprising new outward
qualities of spontaneous self-discipline,
love of order, and a perfect harmony
with others.

I Do And I Understand
According to Montessori the
understanding of the sensory
motor nature of the young
child’s intelligence stemmed
from acute observations of
children. Up until then the
idea of intelligence was
based on verbal development
and the manipulation of
visual images and ideas.

LOOK AT THE CHILD
Both
Montessori
and
Piaget’s discoveries and
insights into the mind of the
child were achieved, not by
what Piaget described as
‘adultmorphic’
thinking
(seeing the child as a
miniature adult), but by
unbiased,
astute,
direct
observations of the child.

The Quality of the Environment Can Help or Hinder a Child’s Development

Piaget
and
Montessori
emphasized the necessity of
active
interaction
between
learner and the environment.
Piaget and Montessori also
emphasised
the
child’s
relationship with peers as the
principal means to overcoming
egocentrism in learning.


Autonomous Environments Work
The Montessori method encourages
accommodation to external reality rather
than assimilation to the personalized
motives and fantasies of the child
(spontaneous play).
Montessori and Piaget observed that
certain conditions were necessary for
optimal cognitive growth. Among these
conditions is the creation of learning
situations that involve particular kinds
and qualities of autonomy.


The child in the Montessori
classroom is allowed to learn
autonomously, which they receive
from the teacher. It is a very
special relationship based on the
teacher’s trust in the child to
reveal their true nature.


Piaget


Jean Piaget is considered to have
been one of the worlds leading
child psychologists. Piaget also
spoke
of
sensory
motor
intelligence as the first period of
intellectual development from age
two to six years.
Sensory motor intelligence rests
mainly on actions (doing) on
movements
and
perceptions
without language but coordinated
in a relatively stable way.

According to Penn (2005) Piaget
turned the tables on an approach to
early childhood, which aimed at
filling up the child’s head with
knowledge.
Piaget argued that children had to
find things out for themselves
through experimentation and their
own free thinking.


The Plowden Report
In 1967 the U.K. Government published
a major review of primary and nursery
education known as the Plowden Report.
Richards (1984) suggests that the
principles underlying Plowden’s reports
were attacked by critics for being too
‘child centred’ and for neglecting the
importance of teaching as a way of
initiating the young into public forms of
knowledge.
Source: www.npg.org.uk

Bridget Horatia Plowden


The members of the review board for the Plowden report
were impressed with Piaget’s theories and suggested that
schooling should be radically changed from a teacher in
front of the class to many different areas from where a
child could draw on concrete experiences with play and
learning materials.

‘Underlying all educational questions is the nature of the child himself
…’ (p.1) “At the heart of the educational process is the child. No
(educational) advances … have their desired effect unless they are in
harmony with the nature of the child, unless they are fundamentally
acceptable to him …’ (p7).
Plowden (1967)


We may assert that all effective learning involves personal
change and the most effective kinds of learning seem to be those
in which the learner is the initiator of the change and involves
himself in active commerce with the learning materials e.g.
autonomous experiential learning through play.

A requirement for cognitive growth is the
psychological climate in which the child is free to
spend at least some of his time exploring his
world with complete autonomy.
When we interfere with a child’s play, when we
influence his modes of behaviour, when we
impose our beliefs upon him, we may be
performing a service but we may be unaware of
the harm we are doing.
Children in school and at home are frequently
forced to assume a purely passive position in
which he is required to register and later
reproduce material that has been imposed upon
him.


We tend to treat children according to the group they are
placed in by age, ability, socio economic background and
many other factors.
‘It is as if the most important thing about them is their date
of manufacture’, Sir Ken Robinson, (2012).

Richard Gerver
Leading academic thinkers Richard Gerver and Sir Ken Robinson
are calling for reform in the education system.
Gerver (2012) believes that we are still basing our education
system on the old model of time and motion developed by Taylor
(1911). Robinson believes we should encourage creativity and
divergent thinking. Both are involved in reforming education
around the world through human potential and creativity but here
in the U.K. the call is for
‘a return to a simple academic model of basic subjects taught in disciplined
environments where children are regarded a vessels to be filled with knowledge,’
Gerver (2013).
According to an Adobe Creativity study (2012) Companies are looking for more than
graduates who can do specific tasks so they want employees who can also think
differently and innovate. To be successful, students need an education that
emphasizes creative thinking, communication, and teamwork.


HOT MANAGEMENT IN EARLY YEARS AND SCHOOLS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck-KrObORfI

Children using a model of the
lung. The children were given
the tools to experiment and
diagrams to make models
including electrical circuitry.
They also made and broadcast
their own radio shows.


Sir Ken Robinson

KEN ROBINSON, (2012)
What we have in schools today is
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•
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DIVERSITY V UNIFORMITY
CREATIVITY V COMPLIANCE
ORGANIC V LINEARITY
EMPATHY V UNIMAGINABLE HARM
THE ART OF PEDAGOGY V DELIVERY
SOLUTIONS

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PERSONALISE EDUCATION
OFFER A WIDE RANGING CURRICULUM
TEACHING IS AN ART FORM NOT A DISCIPLINE
ASSESSMENT BASED ON MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES
CULTURE ALLOWED TO FLOURISH

Source: www.gvsu.edu/business/home-1.htm


Dr. Steven Hughes

Source: www.tovatest.com/news/Fall2008_Newsletter

Dr. Maria Montessori and Dr.Steven Hughes - ‘The hands are the chief teacher of the child.’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcNvTPX4Q08
HIGHLY RECOMMEND VIEWING
http://www.goodatdoingthings.com/GoodAtDoingThings/Selected_Screencasts.html


Gardener’s (1966) research into
individual differences in memory reveal
that the individual differences in
children can be constrained according
to their early experiences especially in
relation to memory and cognitive skills.

“It appeared that he might be receiving training in the kind of veridical
sequential perception we have called sharpening-that is, the
experiencing of new stimuli in their own right, independent of what has
happened before.” This research led Gardner to conclude, “The
evidence has been so impressive that we hesitate to accept, without
qualification, any view of child development that does not include
recognition of this degree of individuality.”

Multiple Intelligence Theory
Intrapersonal
Interpersonal
Musical
Spatial
Kinesthetic

Credit: Peter Gregoire

Howard Gardener

Verbal/Linguistic
Logical Mathematical


Bruce Campbell (1999) implemented Gardner’s theory in an
educational setting by organising his third grade classroom
in Marysville, Washington, into seven learning centres, each
dedicated to one of the seven intelligences. The students
spent approximately two-thirds of each school day moving
through the centres 15 to 20 minutes at each centre.
Source: www.corwin.com/authors/528294

Bruce Campbell
The curriculum was thematic, and the centres provided seven different ways for the
students to learn the subject matter. Each day began with a brief lecture and discussion
explaining one aspect of the current theme. For example, during a unit on outer space,
the morning’s lecture might focus on spiral galaxies.
After the morning lecture, a timer was set and students in groups of three or four
started work at their centres, eventually rotating through all seven.


What kinds of learning activities take place at each centre?
All students learn each day’s lesson in seven ways. They build models, dance, make collaborative
decisions, create songs, solve deductive reasoning problems, read, write, and illustrate all in one school
day. Some more specific examples of activities at each centre follow:
In the Personal Work Centre (Intrapersonal Intelligence), students explore the present area of study
through research, reflection, or individual projects.
In the Working Together Centre (Interpersonal Intelligence), they develop cooperative learning skills
as they solve problems, answer questions, create learning games, brainstorm ideas and discuss that day’s
topic collaboratively.
In the Music Centre (Musical Intelligence), students compose and sing songs about the subject matter,
make their own instruments, and learn in rhythmical ways.
In the Art Centre (Spatial Intelligence), they explore a subject area using diverse art media,
manipulables, puzzles, charts, and pictures.
In the Building Centre (Kinesthetic Intelligence), they build models, dramatize events, and dance, all in
ways that relate to the content of that day’s subject matter.
In the Reading Centre (Verbal/Linguistic Intelligence), students read, write, and learn in many
traditional modes. They analyze and organize information in written form.
In the Math & Science Centre (Logical/ Mathematical Intelligence), they work with math games,
manipulatives, mathematical concepts, science experiments, deductive reasoning, and problem solving.
and reasoning.


Self Organised Learning Environments - S.O.L.E.
Sugata Mitra placed a computer in a hole in a wall in a slum and
replicated this experiment across India.
The hypothesis was whether education was effected by
•Remoteness of education
•Teachers
•Infrastructure
•Maintenance of infrastructure
The tests were carried out on children in communities across India.
Measured performance was based on distance from Delhi.
Results were not correlated to size of class, quality of infrastructure
and not related to poverty.

Teachers were asked would you like to move?
•69% yes
•I wish I were in another school impacts on results
Conclusion. Teacher motivation effects children’s learning
Observations
ET is piloted in the best schools
Impact is limited because they already have what they want
Conclusion ET is over hyped and underperforming
Take the same into a remote school and the impact is far greater
Conclusion. ET is better used at bottom of pyramid

The first hole in the wall experiment took place in New Delhi in 1999.
Mitra’s office bordered a slum. He cut a hole in the wall and put in a
PC a touch pad and high speed Internet.
Questions asked were
Is this real?
Does the language matter?
Will the computer last?
Will they break it?
Will they steal it?
Source: www.perceptum.nl


Mitra took the experiment to a number of poor areas where children
taught each other to browse, use the computer.
Three months after leaving the computer in a rural area where no
English was spoken children were using 200 English words. Mitra was
funded to replicate the experiment. Children found a website to teach
themselves the English alphabet. Younger children began teaching
older children.
Results of experiment
6 to 13 year olds can self construct - teach themselves in groups if you
lift adult intervention.
Results showed the same learning curve you would get in a school.
300 children were computer literate within 6 months with one
computer. 8 year olds live in a society, which says don’t do that don’t
touch.

Can A Teacher Be Replaced By A Machine?

Source: http://www.montana.edu/ttt/school_admin.php

Source: http://lifestarstgeorge.com/blog/?p=489


If They Can They Should Be

Source: lrnteach.com blog

Conclusion
•Primary education can happen independently
•Not imposed from top down
•Can be self organising
•Natural systems are all self organising
•Values are acquired doctrine and dogma are imposed


Sugata Mitra is working on providing an alternative to traditional
education through his ‘Granny Clouds’ where children teach
themselves and tackle the big questions.
The results of his work are startling and challenge any educated
mind into rethinking education.
Isn’t that why we became teachers?
Do we stop learning?
Do we dismiss the research in favour of maintaining the status
quo?
Do we continue with a system, which has been overtaken by the
rest of the world?

In conclusion, one could argue that Montessori is beginning this
century as she did at the start of the nineteenth century. Her ideas and
pedagogy are being revisited, validated and included in the challenge
to the contemporary construction and conceptualization of childhood.
Montessori’s principles could be seen as pre-empting concepts and
thinking that are considered ‘cutting edge’ today; principles that place
a child’s wellbeing as central to her or his experience.


“The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to
be able to say, "The children are now working as
if I did not exist."”
Dr. Maria Montessori

A CHANGE IS GONNA COME
Cultural change is organic from the ground up but people are desperately clinging on to
the old or suggesting we reinstate and update the old.
The future is with the alternative
Revolution does not require permission
It does not start from the top
It is not politicians leading the way
There is a global shift feeding off child and parental unrest.
The effort of constraining talent is greater than the effort in releasing it.
‘All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and
those that move.’ Benjamin Franklin

Don’t waste too much time, move around them.
Work with the movable and the movers


In conclusion, Montessori education places the child firmly at the centre of the process and
relies on observation of the child to lead and inform the adult. The relationship between child
and adult is the key to the success or failure of the method.
The Plowden report was revolutionary and should have had a much stronger effect on nursery
and primary provision given that its statement of overall aims included what we now know as
the main premise of Montessori education, i.e.
“At the heart of the educational process is the child. No (educational) advances … have their
desired effect unless they are in harmony with the nature of the child, unless they are
fundamentally acceptable to him …’ .
Autonomy and individuality are also a key factors in the delivery of educational methods. How
that autonomy and individuality transpires differs from place to place and again is dependent on
the adults within the environment. Gardner goes so far as to hesitate to accept any view of child
development that does not recognise the possibility of a high degree of individuality brought
about through the skills that every individual uses to process, categorize and make sense out of
what we see, hear, taste, smell, and touch. The Montessori provision is all about just that if
delivered true to the original philosophy. Montessori has been providing self organised learning
environments for over a century catering for multiple intelligences.


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