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1. Introduction: Hi, my name is Stephanie. Yeah. I'm a certified Montessori
teacher, three to six. Ever since I gave my
Montessori training and seeds for getting
the classroom. My knowledge of the work
that Maria Montessori be, it has always amazed
at the outcome, confidence, peace and joy. They tilt generally
in the classrooms. This is why I want to
make these scores, because more people need
to know about these. We will learn in this course about the basic principles
of Maria Montessori. Top principles that
will help us better understand the
cell and that will help us know how to guide him. Maria Montessori talked
about these principles, were 100 years ago. They still apply
to us in our days. These are the same
principles we need to erase coffee then independent, happy children that will make
this world a better one. At the end of this course, who will do a project
of observation? Observation is the cornerstone of Maria Montessori school work. And it's an amazing
tool that will serve us for the
rest of our lives. I hope you feel inspired by the work done
Maria Montessori, and that this course will change the way we see
and treat children.
2. How Everything Started: Maria Montessori was
born on August 31st, 18, 70 in Kiribati, Italy. She was born in a
period of great change, political change because Italy
was becoming a country and social change because the idea of women's rights
was entered Italy. Mario was their only tell
and when she was eight, she moved to run
with her parents, where she had more
educational opportunities. Integration in Rome at that time was consisted of four
years of primary school. And then that you wanted to
further your studies of you. Or if you had the opportunity, you could just from
a classical program. We have literature, Greek, and Latin, and this is what
women were expected to do. Or a more technical
program where they will study history, science, math,
geometry in geography. And Maria Montessori was really, really good at math and
she really enjoyed it. So she decided to pursue
a technical program. She was the only girl
with another one in that program and
the boys bully them. And so in order to from them, they give them their own
room for recess and lunch. During this time,
Maria Montessori decided to go to medical school. Her father did not agree, but her mom was
always supported. Her. Montessori tried to enter a medical school
and she did not give him the first time that
she was persistent and the non-Java until she
was in this space. We're not easy for her. She was the only woman
in medical school. She was allowing the lectures, but she was not allowed
into these sections. So they only, they only
time that she could do this human dissections
was a night when no one else was there
by candlelight. She becomes that one time the smell was so unbearable that she asked field worker
to stand next to her while she was doing
her the session and smoke. And she said that when this
was not possible or it was too hard that she will
try to small herself. She also tell us about onetime where she was feeling
discouraged and doubting herself and she was
going back home from school. And she saw these
bigger mother on the street with her hotel. And the little boy was playing with a little strip
of colored paper. And he was so engaged and look
so happy just doing that. The spark, something special
in Medea and then make her pursue her dream and pursue her goals
and do not give up. In 18 96, Mariette graduated
with honors and she became the first
woman to lead to hold a medical doctorate degree. After her graduation, she
started her own panic and she also work in a hospital
with woman and children. She had any special interests
in the pediatric field in 18 97 she also doing the Psychiatric Clinic at
the University of Rome. And her work was to
go to the acylium and just select some silver ion for study to bring back for a study. The conditions in which these children were
were really bad. The caregiver, higher
barrier respect for them. Maria said that in one occasion, she told her we discuss
how the children, after every meal will throw themselves on the
floor and ground. The crown soap, bread, crumbs, soap read my upsert them. And she realized that they
weren't eating these crowns. There were molding
them with their hands. And she realized that
these children are craving type tangible
experiences. It was in this moment
that she decided to study any work that have
been done until then with mentally
disabled children. And she came across
with the work that Dr. ether and his disciples
Sit doctors again. She realized that
these children, they shouldn't be in a
hospital or an a coelom. They should be in
classrooms and they should have a special location for them and they could
thrive with that. That was the moment where
my Montessori turned her whole courier to a location. She actually came back to. She went back to the University of Rome to study a prevents
anything that had been written in any
word that have been done about navigation
in the last 200 years. Here 1900s at group forum, the sufficient funds to
create a school based on Dr. Montessori education,
educational principles. My own story, we can
decode director and she will train teachers on
her makeup of the team. She also they did
Carrie herself to study and observe and
teach the children. Based on the reactions
of the children. She created a setup. Materials, these children
extremely well and they achieve skills and no one thought they could
ever achieved before. She presented them to the State Exam and her
mentally deficient children, the US as well, or even better than
normal children. And these maker
question the quality of education in schools around
this time, Dr. Montessori, she actually had an affair
with the Kohl director of that school and she got pregnant and got
us and bear a son. They actually had
setting not to get married for their own reasons. And during this
time, I'm married. Or pregnancy was very bad. And the woman will have
had to stay at home and she will have had to
give up her whole career. So she made the hard decision to send her songs with
some of her family. And she will come and
be sinking often. But I'm sure that was a
very hard decision to, but we'll see that at the end. Her son, his name is
Maria Montessori. He will play a big role. Mimo stories carry it also. He will go with
her and stay with her until the last
golf her base. So in 1901, she left the
orthopedic school and she actually went to the
University of Rome to study what's going on
with the schools and why, why is the educational system selling in teaching children? 1904 she became, she was named Professor in the
University of Rome. But she always hope that
she will be able to someday try her method on
normal children. The opportunity came
three years later. This time children burned role in primary school
at seven years old. We spent that children
younger than that, we will stay at home. And I loved it on the
lysine, on the streets. And so people turn to Maria
Montessori for our solution. And on January 6, 1907, the first guess or they
can be named, was formed. Meiosis are you
always hoped to start the team children in
the elementary level, but she was actually
excited to also try her method of teaching with
these cellular children. Since she was also the
teen other universities, she had another woman with her full-time to stay with
their children full-time. And it's important
to say that this woman, that she higher, she wasn't a teacher and
she did this on purpose so that she will not
have any precautions. Ids off a location where
you want to sorry. Does these children life
skills like blowing noses and washing hands and how to take care
of their environment. And the parents were
amazed by the change that the children had. The parents also
beg my Montessori to teach their children
to write and read. And even though he
walks in her planning, she tried and she created the first sets of
language materials. And these cylinder we're
writing and reading. And the parents were amaze. They always go for
the miracle worker. But she will say, Don't look
at me, look at the children, which is an anecdote that
I really like about her. During this time and until
the end of her life, Maria Montessori dedicated
her life to train teachers, to teach, and farther her education to the
elementary level, together with her son
Matteo Montessori. Just already died on
May 6, 1952 in Holland. Her life is a life
of inspiration, is the life of not giving up, of really pursuing
your dreams and goals. She left a legacy
that we must carry on and helping them achieve
their full potential.
3. The Human Tendencies: One of the goals
of the Montessori approach is to come down there. So micelle will physically
and psychologically or roles is to help itself developed independently
in his or her environment and become a person at that
fifth to his or her time, place of residence, and culture. Maria Montessori set
that to a t of these, it is necessary that we
studied the nature of men. The same as the Maria, the above human nature. Let her to think that
with Venus there is a force that motivate
us and guide us. Teeth, different attributes
throughout our lives. She called these floors
human tendencies. These tendencies we have from
the moment that we are born and through our whole lives in relation to human
through Mencius, Maria Montessori
differentiates between two terms, nature and nurture. From the moment
that we are born, we come into the world
with the potential to develop certain attributes
such as small Ben, language, culture,
and personality. This is something
that we have by nature and he never changes, doesn't matter,
problem off or gender, economic situation,
language, etc. On the other hand, nurture is the consequence
that we suffer us humans. Depending on different
experience that we've had, different sacred
circumstances, decisions, places where we have being race, culture, and this is
a lifelong process. Nutrition is the
mean in which we develop those attributes and
we have a nature from birth. The human tendencies are base on the basic
needs of human beings, both physically and other ones that are a little
bit more spiritual. Maria Montessori named Tan, human tendencies, exploration. Human beings are
naturally curious. Curiosity leads to exploration
and they need to know and understand and explore through their senses to learn more
about the world around them. That is why our role as adults
is to provide them with an environment where
they can be safe and free to move
throughout their space. Orientation is our
awareness of where we are in our environment
or in a situation. Every child has the need to
orient themselves through it. The chalcone now his place
in the world. Order. So many information that they tell is observing since birth, they need to make
sense of it all. The human tendency of
order helps me tell, begin to get the grace and organize all of this
information. And he's mine. E.g. green, yellow
and blue are colors. By doing this, they are coming to understand their environment. Activity, manipulation and work. Children have the desire to
work into unequally babies with everything in
their mouth and one to everything that is
within their reach. They are exploring the texture, taste, temperature, the
shape of those objects. This is the way they are receiving information
from there. There are thickening
the information that is building
their intelligence. It is only when we
perform a task that we truly understand
that repetition. Think about when itself
first learned to block. They are persistent
and do not give up no matter how many
things they fall. They practice and practice until their muscles game this string
to be able to spend and actually walk by itself first learn the fundamental skills before they can acquire speed, increase confidence,
and mastery. This is done through repetition. It is to repetition the
possibility becomes ability of addition also satisfy some inner need
that the child may have. Dr. Maria Montessori
recounted a story of a three-year-old
student who was deeply absorb enough would've
blog activity, she says, and I quote, once
they tell without interrupting her and counted how many times she will do
her work over and over. It seemed that she was
never going to stop. I invited the other
so then to sing. But the Leto Bureau and went on with their work and continue. Even after the scene had sees, I come to 44 different
exercises which she made when she finally
stopped and deeds. So absolutely independently
from an exterior costs, they could disturb her. She looked around
with an expression of great satisfaction as if she were with being from a
deep and restful sleep. Accuracy and precision
is the energy that help us be more effective
and precise interactions. At t, This quantity
is through practice. When you see a young
toddler a trend to drink water from an open cup. At first, water goes
everywhere but his mouth. But as he practices and
repeats over and over again, his movements become more
precise and control until he's able to bring successfully from a cup with our
spleen in water. Perfection is the
feeling of wanting to improve an activity that
we know we can perfect. Perfection comes as a result of exploring, manipulating,
and repeating, learning experience
that deep sense of satisfaction and
joy when they are allowed to work
until they haven't achieved what they
feel is perfection. Abstraction refers to the
ability to transport a person, place, or thing that is concrete into an
abstract thought. At the beginning,
they sell only starts by observing things that
are in his environment. Later he will be able to imagine those objects
are around him without having them in front of him in the Montessori classroom when Intel is around
three years of age, we use materials that
help us understand difficult concepts like
quantity in a concrete way. When it gets older, we use more abstract
materials that support that concrete knowledge
that they already have. Imagination is the ability
we have to create form, and modify concepts
within the mind. My donation does not develop in itself under three years of age. In fact, during the first
plane of development, which we will talk about
more in the next segment. Imagination is based on the experiences that they tell has had and
what he has seen. Later on, he won't
be able to have a more creative imagination. Communication is the ability to understand as well as to the
other soup is the way we express ourselves as
individuals must remember that verbal communication is as important as nonverbal
communication. As you can see, all
these human tendencies are interrelated and
they work together. We all have them naturally from birth or dealt with
adults is to nurture this human tendencies
in the towel in a way that will help them adapt and dragging
his environment.
4. The Four Planes of Development: Montessori believed
in the development of itself or the firm faces. Thanks to her
scientific studies, she had a great deal
of knowledge about the physical and psychological
development of the Tao. Also her many trips abroad
where source of our in-groups framing her theory on the different planes
of development we go. She was able to see and witness
different children from different backgrounds
and economic situation, different language, home. She found this universal
foundation in their development. And she called these
different planes, therefore planes on development. The first plane of development
goes 0-6 years old. This is a stage in
which the child will experience the greatest
transformations. He goes from being immobile newborn to this towel
that was acquired. Language has perfected
his movements, has to make social connections. Marie Montessori device the
space into two sub phases. The first one goes
0-3 years old. In this one it's cell
acquires language, he has more control
over his movements. He grows so much physically. But the most important
characteristic of these surface is the
use of a server mine. He is able to
retain all kinds of information without effort,
without any choice. Everything goes in good or bad. In this case they are, so mine is acting unconsciously. The second sub phase
goes 3-6 years old. And in this stage, the child, as a reminder, is
acting consciously. They tell is able to
choose what information he lived into his mind or not. In this state, he also starts
to order and categorize all the inversions
and experiences he received his daily
thanks to views, human tendency for order. This is an important time for the tail because he
will start to perfect his body movements
and he will learn more vocabulary to
reach his language. As adults, it is very
important that we give to tell an environment in which he can thrive physically
and psychologically. Also, in this state, social relationships
are very important for the cell and will help him
create these personality. The thinking fan of the
element goes 6-12 years old. In this stage, we do not see
this huge transformation, changes that we saw in
itself in the first Glenn. These teams are more
subtle and more constant. In this stage, the child is
more carefully to see him and his friends and he feels comfortable creating
a social group. He's also, he also doesn't need as much attention
from his bearings. So he's becoming a little bit more
independent in that way. Also, Maria Montessori said that learning this stage
have a strong sense, sense for justice and
empathy towards others. So it is good to include
children in volunteering activities so that they can see the positive impact
that they can have, their environment and society. On the other hand, Tillman, imagination and intelligent in these states is
highly developed. So it is still incurred that
they worked with their hands to maintain the concentration in whatever work they are doing. The best environment
for these children goes beyond the walls
of the classroom. They need to be outside
exploring and also being nurtured by others who
specialized in a particular task. The third plan of the Bowman
goes 12-18 years old. This is such a huge state of transformation
and change that Maria call the rebirth xi
divided into two sub phases. The first one goes
12-15 years old. And in these ages is where the biggest physical and
mental changes occurred. There's ecological bar of the students is also
imbalanced and that creates feelings of insecurity, doubt, and disappointment. This adolescents also
have a strong feeling to have other cultures and
they're very empathetic. They also want to express
their thoughts and emotions through works like
graffiti, music, art. And Maria Montessori said
that the best environment for these students will
be out in nature. And he suggested that it
will be the best will be to work in a pharmacy
school, 15-18 years old. That the lesson we'll begin to consolidate his
personality and his goals in life regarding studies
more than anything else, the work environment, and we'll be back in the classrooms. And the students will be much more compared to the
more intellectual work. Your Montessori also said
that these students should be prepared to face already
a college level education. And the last and forth
plaintiff development goes 18-24 years old. This is a States in weights, very important
decisions are made, or students to walk path, they're going to
take in their lives. And also how to become
self-sufficient in every way.
5. The Absorbent Mind: Dr. Maria Montessori was
a revolutionary off her time during
the 19th century, the general societal thinking was it certainly had
no capacity to learn. The maria Montessori proved
this accusation false. With her studies, she explained the difference between our
brain and the brain of children being there's much more powerful and with a greater capacity to
retain information. She also explain how the experiences that children
have when they're dumb, not also enter their minds, but also for me, creating their own individuals. So why is that so
remind is a period of intense mental activity from birth to six years old
in which the topics, everything from his
environment and good or bad that will create him. This states the maria Montessori
called the also remind, can be divided into two parts. They're conscious mind
and the conscious mind. This is why we talked about in the first plane of development. The conscious mind
goes 0-3 years old. This is a state in
which to tell us going to take everything
that he came from, his environment
and he's going to do it in an unconscious way. They're serving mine is working unconsciously
because it's all going to take a tremendous
amount of information. He's beginning. Experiences, culture,
language, smell, taste. I do. A lot is thinking
everything and all these information that is sticking him by
his surroundings. Surroundings is going to create the person that
he's going to be. Maria Montessori calls this
phenomenon incarnation, which means new Tau. So the information
that is coming into the cell and how it's
coming into hotel is going to create
hotel is going to be our powerful of servers. Children are immobile
for quite a long time. You have served on newborn. They are still in
Cannes more for awhile. Maria Montessori said
that they tell myself, serve and be still too big in everything from
his environment. He needs this to be able to take in all the impressions
from around him. The second phase is
the conscious mind, and it goes 3-6 years old. And I don't want you
to take a moment and think about your earliest
memory that you have. Think about how old were you? Probably know
younger than three. And this is because they
are sort of in mind. The age of three
becomes conscious and then makes recalling
memories possible. These states that cell is
organizing and categorizing all the information
that he has and that will keep helping him creating, creating his own person. But the most important thing about this stage
is that the child starts to use his hands as an instrument to get
to know the world. And this is going to make his learning goal from
unconscious to conscious. Maria Montessori me
an explanation of the characteristics so
they're still remain there. The following nondiscriminatory, it lets all the information
that is received, whether it's good or bad. Global, regional
focus your attention on one thing in
particular, alright, able to look at
the whole picture, being able to look at
the smallest details, unconscious for the most part. They don't pick up information even when they are
not paying attention. Universal, it occurs to all children regardless
where they come from, works adversely and without
tiring their server mind. Never tires. E, works naturally. Creative. It's goal is to
create an individual adapted to freeze time
and place in the world. Than that make it
encourages the child to seek knowledge and still
only from his environment. Maria Montessori also recalls the creations of the
absorbing light in this way. Language they tell will learn whatever language
he's surrounded by. By the age of four, he will be able to speak his mother tongue with
almost no difficulty. Morph men as children
grow and develop, their movements, become
more and more coordinated. Maria Montessori
states that it's child has an inner energy that
drives them to move, which she calls harm. As teachers, we're in
charge of providing the towel with a
suitable environment in which he can move smoothly. Culture, they tell us who he is because of his circumstances and Coulter in which he listened and he is surrounded
by HE them to d, The Tyler Bowles and
understanding of his relationship
to his environment and his place in the world. Order. The cell begins
to weave together the nullity us gain
and categorize it. Memory. Myalgias are the
things that all done. You wants to know how
many memories become a powerful memory then
works and consciously, when she calls Mamie, this type of memory is what
allows us to create language, is at the age of three, the design has a
conscious memory. Studies conducted
by Maria Montessori teaches us that the age in which the greatest
mental connections are made at the age of three. Today's scientists affirm these. Adam that 70-80% of these mental connections
in a person's life that h, Knowing this, we must
consider are oxygens. As adults, we must make the best environment for our children to
grow and develop. And also not getting
their way of learning. Only providing help when needed.
6. The Sensitive Periods: My own to recognize
that there are different stages of
development in children. Each of these stages
are important because they help the child gain
different skills that he needs. She called these stages
are sensitive periods. We find period as a time
where the TA can take whatever he needs
from the environment and incorporate it
into his person. These goods are transitory, meaning that once they're gone, they're gone forever
and universal. Every human being
experienced them. The work that it took them
though during this time, during these periods happens in naturally some internal
need that It's all right Montessori named
for sensitive periods. My first one is the
sensitive period for language and goes from
birth to six years old, is the longest and most
visible period of birth. Babies are attracted
to the human voice. They all serve different names and words of their language. At six months, they begin to get at around ten
months to one year. This sensitivity changes
from cells towards, well, they're two years old itself starts to expand
their vocabulary and sounds and more refined
by the agency for this. So you've seen
grammar and syntax in their vocabulary and
by the age of six, their mother tongue is foreign. After this point,
it will be really hard for them to learn
another language. It will be, won't be as easy
as it was during this state. And this is because the
sensitive period for which ends at six years old, as you can tell, my
mother tongue is not English, is
actually Spanish. And even though I didn't learn
anyone else, they don't. I can still speak it. But I know that if
health hover on it and what else leave
it until the age of six, it will be much easier
for me and I will color, it will be more and rich, and also my
pronunciation will have been better. As adults. We can help them by using appropriate and
correct language and by pronouncing well in theory, it is also very important to read to them during this stage, the sensitive period
for order goes from birth to four-and-a-half
years old or even two. Sorry, I realized that children
have a need for order. These need for
order is different from us, from the adults. For us is more for comfort. For appearance is
something external. For children, is
something more internal. Or there are helps them
relate to their environment. And it also fulfills the need for orientation
and identity. This sensitive period for order, it is also very visible. We can see it manifests in a towel as soon as a
few months old, e.g. when their routine
is disrupted and they're having a hard time
coming back to normal. Children need these
sensitive periods for order to organize and categorize all the
vast information they receive for their mind. And this helped them make sense
of the world around them. Maria Montessori identified
two types of border in itself, external and internal. External order means
the relationship between objects in
the environment, a place for everything and
everything in its place. I want this area becomes a
time where this term came in. And she put an umbrella on the
table in itself was there. And she started to throw a fit. She was so upset and she
was crying and crying. And they couldn't figure
out what was going on until they realized that it was
because of their umbrella. Umbrellas don't go on the table. This tells himself, or there was disrupted their
relationship. She created with the
object, with the umbrella. And then by environment,
what's disrupted. And so we can see millions of examples in children like these. Internal order refers to the child's awareness
of their own body. They tell discovers
that his own body can have an impact
on his environment. He spoke man as a telecom
tools his body better. He can now begin to explore his environment
more and more. He then becomes aware of what
hispanic can and cannot do. As adults. We can help them by teaching them
where things go, but also being consistent are putting things
where they are. And also we can create a
safe environment for them. Freely move to get to know their own body
and their environment. This sensitive period
for movement goes from birth to
four-and-a-half years old. Maria Montessori then
defined the development of balance as one of the
first to develop, as well as hand control. The development of bonds
happens in stages. Firstly, it has to sit up. Then they roll on the floor, then they stand up, and then they take
their first steps. Lungs, they can walk. Their hands are free to
manipulate things and explore. Or hands are what
allows us to come into contact with everything
in our environment. It is not until two-and-a-half, four-and-a-half years old, they gain more control
of their movements. And by the time that they are
four-and-a-half years old, they are in full
control of their body. And this is why this
sensitive period of movement fades away. The last one is a
sensitive period for the refinement of the
sensory perceptions. This sensitive period
goes from birth to 4.5 and involves
all the sentences. Ever since birth, we explore
the role with our senses. This is why we see children putting things in their mouth. Is there a way of exploring and learning qualities
about that object? A doll experiments with the
object in his environment. He says, serving all the
qualities of that object, even the smallest and the most. And notice the deals when
working with itself. I'm sure you've noticed
that they sell many, many times to see things on
the floor ends, little frogs. And this is one of the
many manifestations of the sensitive period from the age of two-and-a-half
to four-and-a-half. Children will refine
these senses. Sorting things they learn into more specific categories,
like colors, smell, taste, texture,
temperature, sound, so that they can be linked to the objects are being explored. Borges Maria Montessori created sensory materials to organize this information and to also give the child the
respective vocabulary. Maria Montessori states that itself will learn more
skills and learn faster. When integration is revolved around these sensitive periods. As adults, we must observe itself to see in which
sends a big area hears it. And he can be in more than
one at the same time. One way we can see
this is that they'll be drawn to an activity
more than other. And when he's done, he will be satisfied and with a
feeling of relaxation. When these sensitive periods
are starting to fade out, they tell us willpower will be very important in their life. Like I said before, these sensitive periods
are transitory, which means that when once they're gone, they're
gone forever. But that doesn't mean the child hasn't learned a language
by the age of six, will not learn it ever. That just means
that it will take more effort on his part
and more willpower.
7. The Prepared Environment: Children's needs can be met by an environment that is
well-prepared to meet those needs. Maria Montessori investigative
what cylinders needs are and what environments are
best to serve those needs. Irrigation should begin
by creating these types of environments and removing
any obstacles for Mattel, the first environment for
the tail is his or her home. And you think about a, a home is the sign for adults. The furniture and appliance, they're big and they're
out of reach of children. This is why it's so important to prepare an environment for them, an environment that will
support their mind, that will think consideration. There are sensitive periods and that will support
their development. The Montessori
educational environment is composed of three elements. He took them very important
and indispensable. First of all, the children. The children in the classroom
has similar needs and mental capacities to be able to well to the activities
that are carried out. Second, the physical
environment. Everything in the
environment has a purpose. I feel like the Montessori
method falls below the concept of
minimalism in that way. And third, the adult
which is train, it's trained in the
Montessori method, and it's in charge of linking the children
to their environment. These three elements
of the triangle have the same importance
and they knew one another to be able to have an authentic and effective
educational experience, the environment we create
in a Montessori classroom. Man of peace and protection. Maria Montessori
describes some of the characteristics
of this environment in the children's house. Beautiful. It is very visually pleasing, which inspires and tell to
respect the environment. Beauty in the school
inspires activity. We use wood and
natural materials. Clean, remove anything unnecessarily from
the environment. Organized the classroom
in a way that facilitates muffin and
avoid distractions, sufficient space, space for
children to move freely into all materials without any problem or disturbing
their classmates. Tell size furniture. All classroom furniture
should we tell size? The purpose of these is so that they can
be more independent. Reality base, we must expose
her children to reality. We use real objects. This helps the children refine their movements
connected to nature. Today's children are so
close off to technology, but they may not
have as much contact with nature anymore. By putting animals and
plants in our classroom, we instill in its children
a sense of responsibility. When I was doing my
Montessori training, I work as an assistant in
our elementary classroom. And the children, Alice, her birth and a fish. And they were responsible
to take care of them. They're responsible
to feed them, to clean them, intubate them. Practical arrangement, how to specific places for
basic daily activities, such as taking shoes
off, setting the table. Art board then is to
try change of clothes. All of these places should
be accessible to the tell. When we're preparing
environment in this way, you're maximizing the learning, independence and
exploration of it's tough.
8. The Importance of Observation: The cornerstone of the Montessori
method is observation. But you are serving the cell. We become aware of his
sneeze and in this way, Here's the one guiding us
in how and why to the team. In order to meet those needs. We can define the
war observation as looking with a mind that is not influenced by other ideas jumped
men's or expectations. This will require a
transformation in us, in the adults, seeing their children for
who they really are. It's also important to look at each tau from
our first start. It stay regardless of what
happened the day before. And to really neutral
with all of our students. We must also be careful
of gentlemen as we can pass it to the tiller and they can be a
negative impact for them. Maria Montessori also talks about the importance of having a balance between objective
and subjective observation. Objective observation
alone is very cool. This is why we also need
to observe subjectively. However, if we also only
subject, hopefully, we can be carried out by
our feelings and they can also have an impact
on our observations. This is why we're
advice to give on an observation journal
so that we can write down both are objective and subjective
thoughts and ideas. And then we can take
advantage of both. Bedroom observation
has two main purposes. The first one is to get to
know the needs of itself, to know how to better help them. The second one is to
remove any obstacles possible for the benefit
of the cells that Belbin, as we can see, everything we do in the classroom
is tell center. Tell. My Montessori spoke of some practical aspect of observation that we
should keep in mind. These are our in
assaultive whole group. Even aware of serving
one particular hotel, we must realize what's going on in the room with
the rest of the group. Observation of the environment. The adult is responsible
for the environment. So we must also serve
their environment. They cleanliness, the shelves, they materials, use, et cetera. Montane patients, we must
have the ability to wait. Let the children experience their own pity moments in which they can discover
for themselves. Let them solve
their own problems. Absurd, the beginning of things routine such
as when children first start working or when they're first open
their lunch bag, these simple
activities can help us find out and now
they tell better and what are the specific needs of surf the following
presentations. The same time, it
is also important to notice the beginning of an activity that also
serve happens after. So in the Montessori classroom, we will teach Ellison to upsell, and then after that, we will disappear and observe that cell and see what he
does with that activity. If he's focused, if
he's interested, UTC has so that we
can better help them after an observation journal, if it's important to write down everything
there'll be observed. Every detail is important. It will teach us more about the children and how
to better help them. I'll serve the
changes in the child, both emotional and physical. By assigning these
observations of the children, we will be more prepared to
better respond to each case. Active and passive observation. These two types of observation
are equally important. Active observation
is when they tell ME adult are in direct contact, e.g. during a presentation. Motivation is when it's on the adult are not
interrupting therapy. In this case, the
adult will see on a tear it close to the area
where the tail is located. And without causing
too much attention, he will do the observation
by taking notes. In history, the reason and motivation through which
the observation is carried out is to get to know a little better and to
get to know us better. After all, the purpose
observation is not too big, subtle, but to perfect
or understanding of him.
9. The Montessori Guide: The teacher in an
underserved classroom plays the role of
facilitator of knowledge. The adult is
responsible to guide, it tells us to normalization, which is their ability to concentrate and to work
freely in his environment. As adults, we must always
also studied ourselves. We must see what are our
strengths and weaknesses. And this takes a lot of
humidity in our par. Or eagle has gone
down so that we can better help the
tail and Guy him. Maria Montessori, thoughts
about two effects that are most prevalent
in us as adults. And anger. We tend to depths the
town too quickly without stopping and seeing
what he breathes doing, we must cultivate the habit of stopping and are serving me tell reformed dumping
in punishing them. Marianne Montessori said
that it's important to use our imagination to see the potential of these children and to see them for
what they can become. If we serve itself in
this way with humility, this will increase their
respect towards us. As adults, we are the example
of itself looks up to. They will absorb and
reflect everything we do. We must pay attention
to your actions so that we can be there
Example for them. On occasion, a teacher told me of an experience she
had in her classroom. She said that one day she realized that the
children were thinking offer. She was in the glass and she didn't know why
and he was driving her crazy until she realized that when she will come to the classroom and see them hurt, she was taking her
shoes off herself, but she didn't even
realize until that moment. So the children were
just imitating her. This is a great
example to see how our actions can reflect in
the children's actions. And then we should
always mobility of good behavior for them. The Montessori guy is sometimes also called the Dynamic Link. He's in charge of the brand, their environment, and
connecting it to the town. We do this through observations. The observations that
we do help us to know what activities
are best friends. Chow, also ration is the central point of
Maria Montessori work. She said that it is
important to look at It's Chow from a neutral
point without prejudice. And this is the hardest
part of our work. Observation is a skill that we cannot learn
in a few weeks. This is killed the new learned through a lifetime of Putin. As the adults we
must care for HR, must make every tell feel comfortable coming
to us to ask us questions and to make them feel that they can
come to us for support. But always doing this with us and some dignity and respect. But above all, we
must give the child the opportunity to choose
actin, think for themselves. We are accompanied them
in this experience.
10. The Project: Now that you have earlier case, they want to serve fundamentals. You know how important
observation is. Like I said before,
observation is the cornerstone of
Maria Montessori sport is where everything started. So of course, our product is
going to eat your surgery. We talked about
ulceration journals. Observation journals
are a great tool to record your observations. I actually have made a
few observation journals. This is one of them.
You're interested the link in the
description of the video. But essentially
in your germinal, you want to write
it on the dog here. Some good degree. So you will write date, start time, whether blades. And you can also write
move because all of these things have an impact
on your observation. And then on the button
up the rest of the page, you are going to do two columns, one for time and another
one for your observation. We like to have the two columns all the time and also vision together so that we know a lot of time each
observation happen. Normally if I see something new in the object or person
that I'm observing, I will write any time and then I will write the
observation right next to it. So I know exactly
when that happened. The assignment will be
to do two observations. The first one will be till
serve an object for 10 min. And the second one
will be to serve as a living thing
for term limits, that can be an animal, a plant, a person. And after you do this, I invite you to go to the private section and to
leave a comment saying, what are those two
things that you observe? And what have you learned
about observation, but you didn't know before. You're free to write everything that comes
into your mind, you can even draw a picture
of whatever throughout Surry, anything that will give you
new information is good. I know it may seem like a lot of time observing an object, e.g. for thin whole minutes, but you'll be surprised how many things you
can say about it. I remember my first observation. I was also really a treat. And I was a little bit skeptical on how many things I could
say about the street. But I, to my surprise, I found myself writing nonstop. Maybe go to a park or
somewhere where you can be major and I'll certainly
things around you. All starvation is a good
opportunity for us to start, to slow down, to be aware, to concentrate in
one single task. In today's world,
I feel like that's something that we've
barely do anymore. And it takes practice. Observation is a skill
or her lifetime. We become better at
it the more we do it. I would love to read. Wendy chose to serve, and why are some things that
we learn about observation. So please make sure you share that in a glass
previous section.
11. Final Thoughts: Thank you for doing
these scores. I agree. Called the uterine and
a little bit more about the fundamental principles
them every month disorder and that
they inspire you. And then you can implement
them in your life. Whether you are a parent or grandparent, it
doesn't matter. These are principles that
can be useful for everyone. I am excited to hear
about your observation. And if you have any questions, please feel free to leave
them in the comments. I look forward to talking to
each and every one of you.
Estefania, AMI Montessori Teacher
