
Incorporating Montessori Principles into Your Early Years Environments
A Guide to Following the Child
- 176 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Incorporating Montessori Principles into Your Early Years Environments
A Guide to Following the Child
About this book
Incorporating Montessori Principles into Your Early Years Environments will allow readers to understand the developing child in their early years setting and how to adapt a Montessori approach to meet their pupils' needs.
This book shares an insight into Maria Montessori's extensive research, observations, and findings about child development and education, enabling them to transfer these to their own setting. Based on the scientific observation of the child and the stages of development they go through, Montessori pedagogy can be successfully applied in any setting and is well-known for its child-centred, holistic, and individualised approach to education. By addressing its key principles such as respect for the child, prepared environment, and the role of the adult, chapters highlight the overarching vision Montessori's approach had and explore how and why it can still be so meaningful in today's early years classrooms. This book will allow the reader to reflect on the framework they work with and offer examples of adapted practice as well as highlighting the importance of knowing the children, observing their work, and planning suitable resources and activities that will nurture their development.
This is an essential reading for trainee Montessori teachers, trainee educators, early childhood professionals, and childminders, empowering them to enhance learning and development for their pupils, whilst instilling love and respect throughout their interactions with them.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Montessori Approach
- 2 Montessori Early Years: The Child, the Adult, and the Prepared Environment
- 3 Observation
- 4 The Planes of Development and the Absorbent Mind
- 5 The Sensitive Periods
- 6 The Prepared Environment
- 7 Play Is Work
- 8 Freedom Within Limits
- 9 Hands-On Learning
- 10 Independence
- 11 Respect
- 12 Language
- 13 Mathematics
- 14 Movement and Wellbeing
- 15 Social and Emotional Development
- 16 Making It Work in Your Environment
- Bibliography
- Index