2. Profile
Originator of Montessori method.
Born in 1870 in Italy.
A Philosopher and an eminent
educationist.
She opened a chain of schools and called
them Children’s School.
3. She opens the first school in Rome on
January 6, 1907 for mentally retarded
children.
Died on May 6, 1952 at the age of 81.
4. Main publications
• The Discovery of Child
• Education for a New World
• The Secret of Education
• The Montessori Method
• The Child’s Place and Education
• Child Training
5. Educational Principles
• Development from within.
• The doctrine of freedom and liberty.
• Principle of individual development.
• Principle of sense training.
• Principle of motor efficiency or
muscular training.
6. Aims of education
• Child centred educational approach based
on scientific observations of children from
birth to adulthood.
• Gives value to the human spirit and
development of the whole child –physical,
social, emotional and cognitive.
• Helping each child in building a habit of
concentration.
7. •
It shaped around the individual needs of the
child.
• Help each child to develop self confidence.
• To develop the habit of initiative and
persistence.
• Fostering inner security and sense of order
in a child.
8. Content curriculum
• Educate the children through multiple
senses, in a concrete fashion.
• It is designed to invite the young learners
to act and work on real life tasks that foster
independence, co ordination, order and
concentration.
• It is a sensory based and self directed
learning.
• Language development.
9. • Importance to basic sciences.
• Importance to music and movement
education.
• Importance to Arts.
• Freedom of movements within the
classroom.
• It is an integrated thematic approach that
ties the separate disciplines together into
studies of the physical universe, world of
nature and human experience.
