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Understanding & Working with Students with ADHD in the Montessori Environment

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Teacher and elementary student sitting at table and having a discussion

My son was diagnosed with ADHD-I (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder-Inattentive) when he was 18 years old. In high school, he struggled as math classes became more and more complex and abstract. A true Montessori student, he was able to explain the big picture ideas and theories, but he had difficulty with step-by-step application. After a … Understanding & Working with Students with ADHD in the Montessori Environment

Playful Learning and Montessori: Play is Developmentally Appropriate

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Montessori teacher and group of students working together at table

  A child’s play is not simply a reproduction of what he has experienced, but a creative reworking of the impressions he has acquired. — Lev Vygotsky, 2004. My six-year-old niece started kindergarten this year. She was thrilled! But then, within the first few days, something terrible happened. She was no longer the happy child … Playful Learning and Montessori: Play is Developmentally Appropriate

Playful Learning in the Montessori Environment: Work and Play Go Together

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two Montessori students working with bead frame

He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence. —Maria MontessoriThe Absorbent Mind, p. 25. Today I am going to suggest something that may seem counter to Montessori philosophy. I am going to suggest that we need more play. But wait … Playful Learning in the Montessori Environment: Work and Play Go Together

The Absorbent Mind, Chapter 23: Cohesion in the Social Unit

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The great task of education must be to secure and to preserve a normality which, of its own nature, gravitates toward the center of perfection. —Maria MontessoriThe Absorbent Mind, p. 239. In Chapter 23, Dr. Montessori explains that the fundamental difference between her method and conventional methods is based on the social cohesion found within … The Absorbent Mind, Chapter 23: Cohesion in the Social Unit