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Encouraging Visualising with Story Telling in Montessori

Encouraging Visualising with Story Telling in M...

Visualising is one reading skill that we know that helps create good readers. We all create mental pictures of what a text is about it helps us picture what a...

Encouraging Visualising with Story Telling in M...

Visualising is one reading skill that we know that helps create good readers. We all create mental pictures of what a text is about it helps us picture what a...

Ableism permeates Montessori

Ableism permeates Montessori

I write as the mother of an AuADHD child and as a Montessori trained teacher who has made many many mistakes in my teaching career. I also live with mental...

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Ableism permeates Montessori

I write as the mother of an AuADHD child and as a Montessori trained teacher who has made many many mistakes in my teaching career. I also live with mental...

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Adding with doubles

Adding with doubles

I've talked before about the importance of teaching math strategies.  Teaching about doubles is one way of helping students find an anchor for their basic facts. Double equations are 1 + 1,...

Adding with doubles

I've talked before about the importance of teaching math strategies.  Teaching about doubles is one way of helping students find an anchor for their basic facts. Double equations are 1 + 1,...

When Montessori Isn't Picture Perfect.

When Montessori Isn't Picture Perfect.

Log onto any social media outlet (SM) and you will often see pictures of Montessori classrooms with wooden shelves, lined up equipment and a child seemingly engrossed in work after...

When Montessori Isn't Picture Perfect.

Log onto any social media outlet (SM) and you will often see pictures of Montessori classrooms with wooden shelves, lined up equipment and a child seemingly engrossed in work after...

Why you might need resources on animal snot on your shelf

Why you might need resources on animal snot on ...

    The Montessori scope and sequence (or whatever curriculum you are using) is not a legal document.   This is why I caution against people planning off a scope...

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Why you might need resources on animal snot on ...

    The Montessori scope and sequence (or whatever curriculum you are using) is not a legal document.   This is why I caution against people planning off a scope...

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Lets not claim other pedagogies as our own

Lets not claim other pedagogies as our own

   If you've been here for any length of time I have no time for fundamentalist Montessorians who say Montessori must look like an AMI trained teacher, with a specific...

Lets not claim other pedagogies as our own

   If you've been here for any length of time I have no time for fundamentalist Montessorians who say Montessori must look like an AMI trained teacher, with a specific...