Montessori Triad segments color chart
Montessori prepared environment
Specific classroom strategies
Respectful language phrases
Buying and making materials easily and economically
Rotating exercises
Observation and recordkeeping
Over 4 1/2 hours video instruction
Concise 50 page manual

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This module, together with the Montessori Training Program Introduction and Mentor Preparation Home Study Course, presents the Montessori for Everybody system to master the essential principles of Montessori education. These principles are summarized and presented with metaphors to make them easier to learn, remember, and use.


Montessori Classroom Management, Leadership, and Preparation Home Study Course
The Montessori classroom can seem daunting to set up and even more challenging to manage or lead when the children arrive. Most children coming into the Montessori environment for the first time will need guidance from you to make the most of it. To protect the vital inner motivations of a child, and still give him the direction he needs to use that motivation best, does not come naturally to most people. Learning the skills to respectfully mentor children is the key to the success of the Montessori approach.

Most adults who choose Montessori did not have the benefit of growing up in a Montessori environment. The experiences of our own childhoods shape how we treat children unless we consciously choose another way. The way we were treated by adults seems normal to us; so we must have specific strategies in order to shift to more respectful methods.

Tools and resources are provided to help you set up and maintain an effective Montessori environment even when time and money are limited. Learn to make best use of the time and other resources you have now and plan for making future improvements.

This module will help you mentor and lead children, rather than teach them, and to change the environment rather than make useless attempts to change the child. It will give you specific ways to prepare that will make these new behaviors easier and easier. It will also help you meet children where they are and respectfully stop behaviors that intrude on other children or the Montessori materials. Most of all, you will learn to notice the things you need to do to keep a Montessori classroom running smoothly while the children become more and more responsible for their own learning.

v  Classroom Management, Leadership, and Preparation Video and Manual Highlights


Overview of Mentors Role
Montessori for Everybody Overview
The Environment
The Mentor in the Classroom: A FACT, EFFICIENT Works
Video Presentations Summary
A Community of Respect: Delegation and Shared Responsibility
Nurture, Never Intrude or Abandon
Ground Rules, the Real Purpose
Modeling Grace and Attention to Actions
Mentor Inventory
Daily Routines
Group Time
Starting a Class – Focus on the Environment
The Physical Space of the Classroom
Making, Buying, and Shelf Presentation of Materials
Maintaining the Environment
Staff Care of the Environment
Overview for Setting Priorities
The Essentials            : Prioritizing, Overview, and Review
Planning
Recordkeeping
Master Notebook and Classroom Resource Records
Materials Rotation and Storage
Key Point Cards
Respectful Language
Resource Section