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Including creation stories from around the world in your Montessori Classroom

Including creation stories from around the worl...

Incorporating Diverse Creation Stories in the Montessori ClassroomThe Montessori Great Stories offer children aged 6–12 a cosmic perspective of life’s beginnings — but how can we ensure these narratives reflect...

Including creation stories from around the worl...

Incorporating Diverse Creation Stories in the Montessori ClassroomThe Montessori Great Stories offer children aged 6–12 a cosmic perspective of life’s beginnings — but how can we ensure these narratives reflect...

Why I'm not a fan of us vs them - Montessori vs traditional education

Why I'm not a fan of us vs them - Montessori vs...

Us vs them I'm sure many of you have seen lists of Montessori compared to Traditional education or Montessori compared to normal education. These lists are meant to be an...

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Why I'm not a fan of us vs them - Montessori vs...

Us vs them I'm sure many of you have seen lists of Montessori compared to Traditional education or Montessori compared to normal education. These lists are meant to be an...

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Encouraging deep Maths thinking in Preschoolers

Encouraging deep Maths thinking in Preschoolers

Explore what makes great early years maths education from a Montessori lens—hands-on materials, metacognition, feedback, and research-based insights.

Encouraging deep Maths thinking in Preschoolers

Explore what makes great early years maths education from a Montessori lens—hands-on materials, metacognition, feedback, and research-based insights.

Three tips for managing a large Public School Montessori Class

Three tips for managing a large Public School M...

It is a truth universally acknowledge in Public School Montessori that sometimes you get thrown curve balls.Sometimes one of those curve balls is a large class size. If you are...

Three tips for managing a large Public School M...

It is a truth universally acknowledge in Public School Montessori that sometimes you get thrown curve balls.Sometimes one of those curve balls is a large class size. If you are...

How 40 million people are not on the maps in your classroom (Oceania exists!)

How 40 million people are not on the maps in yo...

UPDATE: July 2020  I've seen a growing number of Montessorians change their 'Australia' cards to being called Oceania but not changing any of the content, so basically still just kangaroos...

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How 40 million people are not on the maps in yo...

UPDATE: July 2020  I've seen a growing number of Montessorians change their 'Australia' cards to being called Oceania but not changing any of the content, so basically still just kangaroos...

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End of year activities for Elementary Montessori

End of year activities for Elementary Montessori

  Argh! It's the end of the year! So much to do, so little energy!Here are some ideas for making the last week more manageable1) Towards the beginning of the...

End of year activities for Elementary Montessori

  Argh! It's the end of the year! So much to do, so little energy!Here are some ideas for making the last week more manageable1) Towards the beginning of the...