Montessori Learning Method

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Think back to when you were in middle school, what were your biggest worries? Was it would you pass the next test, or was it did the person next to you like you? What if you did not have to worry about that aspect of school? An alternative method of learning would eliminate the anxiety of the everyday classroom environment. Maria Montessori, Edward Harkness, and Rudolf Steiner where truly revolutionary with each their own alternative method of teaching students in middle school that has changed the ways of teaching children worldwide and for many generations to come. With these new ways of teaching such as (Maria Montessori’s teaching method of allowing children to choose how they would like to learn, or Edward Harness’s teaching method of …show more content…
Maria Montessori’s way of teaching. Maria Montessori was the first woman in Italy to earn her physician’s degree in 1907. She believed children were born with absorbent minds and they were capable of learning in a direct environment. She wanted children to choose how they would learn in the classroom. A Montessori type of learning allows children to spend a large amount of time on their own to learn new ways to do activities. The formal assessment of grades and tests are to help ensure the classroom would stay non-competitive. Today Maria Montessori learning method is used in an estimated five thousand schools and several hundred public schools. In a 2006 study comparing public school students to Montessori school students, the Montessori students showed better social and academic skills. In most of today’s middle schools teachers are treating the children as if they were still babies. The students have no reasonability, choice, or say so in what goes on around them. There are three ways of learning that today’s society believes in, verbal, overserving, and interactive. No one student learns the same as the next …show more content…
Maria Montessori, Edward Harkness, and Rudolf Steiner) teaching methods helped the children learn, what about the teachers teaching the children? Teachers in the modern age worry about test scores. Some researchers says that the reason some students cheat is because the school system and teachers care more about the grade rather than actual learning. The three types of alternative methods of teaching that have been discussed focus only on the student learning and not the grades and test. Students are encouraged to learn at their own pace and not pushed to compete with one another. Teachers are there merely to make sure the children are getting what they need be their best selves and to guide them into the right direction, not to pressure them to be something they are

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