CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Montessori Method is an approach to learning which emphasizes active learning, independence, cooperation, and learning according to each child’s unique pace of development. Originator: Maria Montessori (1870-1952), Italian teacher and physician.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Montessori method suggests that children learn best in an environment that has been prepared to enable them to do things for themselves. Always child-centred, the learning environment should promote freedom for children to explore materials of their choice.

Detailed explanation-3: -Absorbent Mind Montessori observed how children learned the language without anyone teaching them. This sparked her idea for the “absorbent mind”. Children under the age of three, do not need to have lessons in order to learn, they simply absorb everything in the environment by experiencing it, being part of it.

Detailed explanation-4: -in 1949, Dr. Maria Montessori published a book called “The Absorbent Mind.” She believed strongly in this theory of child-centered development and centered much of her work on it.

Detailed explanation-5: -In a Montessori school classroom, movement is built into the work and into the lessons so that children do not spend long periods of time sitting still. For example, the work of “Golden Beads” requires that students make multiple trips to the “bank” to fetch the golden beads that they need to do their math problem.