Montessori School House and Maria Montessori Elementary

From the Director:

We are always excited about the unrevealed potential of each student who enters our school. It is our passionate belief that the methods developed by Maria Montessori encourage and allow children to grow toward their potential at each stage of their development. Our priority at Maria Montessori School is to provide a loving, nurturing, caring community for your children in which each is acknowledged as unique and special. Every child has his or her individual talents, gifts, and ways of learning which bring to our educational environment a richness and diversity for all children in every classroom. Our world has become a global community requiring the engaged participation of all its citizens from the smallest family unit to the largest international political and social organizations. Your children are the future and we strive to enable our school to be among the finest educational environments to prepare them for the challenges that lie ahead.

From the Director:

The teacher, child, and environment create a learning triangle. The classroom is prepared by the teacher to encourage independence, freedom within limits, and a sense of order. The child, through individual choice, makes use of what the environment offers to develop himself, interacting with the teacher when support and/or guidance is needed. Multiage groupings are a hallmark of the Montessori Method: younger children learn from older children; older children reinforce their learning by teaching concepts they have already mastered. This arrangement also mirrors the real world, where individuals work and socialize with people of all ages and dispositions. Dr. Montessori observed that children experience sensitive periods, or windows of opportunity, as they grow. As their students develop, Montessori teachers match appropriate lessons and materials to these sensitive periods when learning is most naturally absorbed and internalized.

Each child is valued as a unique individual. Montessori education recognizes that children learn in different ways, and accommodates all learning styles. Students are also free to learn at their own pace, each advancing through the curriculum as he is ready, guided by the teacher and an individualized learning plan.

Our mission is to provide a complete Montessori program which considers the emotional, intellectual, physical, and social development of the total child by addressing the uniqueness of each in a nurturing, emotionally secure and academically excellent environment.