Montessori Strengths:
1. Montessori teachers prepare the environment to support and promote learning
2. The teachers prepare environment that is educationally stimulating
3. Children play a part in educating themselves through self-direction and self-correcting
4. Learning takes places through senses
5. The teachers follow the child’s interest and needs
6. The teachers observe, analyze and offer material and activities appropriate for the child’s sensitive periods of learning
7. Focuses on self-help and environmentally friendly skills
Montessori Weaknesses:
1. Children are grouped in multiage groups
2. No dramatic play centres in the classroom
3. Parents are rarely involved in the Montessori program
4. Less group work
5. Less developed social skills
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Open head brought hope to families and helps them on the road to self-improvement and self esteem
6. Acts as a grandparents for a number of models regarding early childhood education
Weaknesses:
1. Family income is the main admission to a head start program
2. Teacher qualifications were minimum to no training at all
3. The model is very vague and has been altered to suit different program models
Cognitively Oriented Curriculum Strengths:
1. Importance is on real materials rather than fake plastic toys
2. Organized play space with labels on each shelf, encouraging clean up skills
3. The support of social skills is encouraged
4. The children are offered planning time, this is when they chose and activity that interest them
5. There is an allotted period for “work time” when the children pick self-selected activities and the teacher supports through the process
6. The teacher observes each child’s performance and supports children’s self-initiated activities
Weaknesses:
1. Teachers focuses has been on intellectual challenges rather than social growth
2. Teachers let children use material in any manner they wish
3. There is no list of materials instead sections of the classroom are broke into activity
1. Montessori teachers prepare the environment to support and promote learning
2. The teachers prepare environment that is educationally stimulating
3. Children play a part in educating themselves through self-direction and self-correcting
4. Learning takes places through senses
5. The teachers follow the child’s interest and needs
6. The teachers observe, analyze and offer material and activities appropriate for the child’s sensitive periods of learning
7. Focuses on self-help and environmentally friendly skills
Montessori Weaknesses:
1. Children are grouped in multiage groups
2. No dramatic play centres in the classroom
3. Parents are rarely involved in the Montessori program
4. Less group work
5. Less developed social skills
6. …show more content…
Open head brought hope to families and helps them on the road to self-improvement and self esteem
6. Acts as a grandparents for a number of models regarding early childhood education
Weaknesses:
1. Family income is the main admission to a head start program
2. Teacher qualifications were minimum to no training at all
3. The model is very vague and has been altered to suit different program models
Cognitively Oriented Curriculum Strengths:
1. Importance is on real materials rather than fake plastic toys
2. Organized play space with labels on each shelf, encouraging clean up skills
3. The support of social skills is encouraged
4. The children are offered planning time, this is when they chose and activity that interest them
5. There is an allotted period for “work time” when the children pick self-selected activities and the teacher supports through the process
6. The teacher observes each child’s performance and supports children’s self-initiated activities
Weaknesses:
1. Teachers focuses has been on intellectual challenges rather than social growth
2. Teachers let children use material in any manner they wish
3. There is no list of materials instead sections of the classroom are broke into activity