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

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

•Overview of each math strand chart
•Preparation exercises
•Symbol, quantity, and association
•Mastery of 1-10
•Advanced counting exercises
•Beginning computation
•Concrete to abstract sequence
•Cultural Subjects introduction
•Works together with Part B module
•Not intended as stand alone segment
•4 hours of video instruction
•Concise 50 page manual

This module works together with the resources in the Montessori Math & Cultural Subjects Curriculum Part B, Ages 3-6 Home Study Course. Detailed information about the Cultural Subjects materials and presentations, as well as Golden Bead materials presentations and other essential math information, are in the Part B module. If you plan to set up and master complete Math and Cultural Subjects Areas, you will need both.

Montessori Math & Cultural Subjects Curriculum Part A, Ages 3-6 Home Study Course
The Math Area is the nervous system of the Montessori classroom. This area provides hands-on mastery of the mathematical structures that allow children to better understand and manipulate the systems in the world. As technology becomes a larger part of successful living, having a gut-level sense of mathematical concepts becomes more and more valuable.

The Cultural Subjects Area is the heart of the Montessori classroom. This area provides an introduction to the rich body of knowledge that people have about the world around them. Deep empathy for humans, animals, and all living things on all parts of the earth is a natural result. Moving from the entire solar system down to the tiniest vein on the leaf of a flower, this area provides an interesting, complete foundation in geography, geology, botany, zoology, history, and art through beautiful, hands-on, easy to grasp materials.

This module gives you the practical pieces you need to set up a complete Math and Cultural Subjects areas. You’ll learn to use children’s natural love of nature and moving things with their hands to offer them exercises that keep them practicing each skill and knowledge set until they master it. In areas that can be overwhelming, learn how to keep them manageable for you and your students. Practical guidelines will help you fit the materials you need into a tight budget.

Give children the roots of understanding the world around them and the culture from which they come and give them the wings of mastering mathematical concepts that took us into space and cyberspace.

Video Highlights

Math and Cultural Subjects A, Disk 1: Introduction, Sequence, & 1 – 10

Introduction and Sequence of Math Exercises

Concrete to Abstract & Simple to Complex: easier to more difficult exercises

Order of presentations given with each material

Preparing to give a lesson

Number Rods

Number Rods Variations and Extensions

Table Top Number Rods – May delay variations for use with this material.

Sandpaper Numerals

Number Rods and Numerals: Associate Quantity to Symbol

Rods and Symbols: Variations and Extensions

Bead Posts, 1-5

Bead Stair – use with a felt or Pellon mat to prevent them from rolling away

Number Pegs (Peg It Number Boards from Ideal) & Number Puzzles

Spindle Boxes

Cards and Counters (Numerals and Counters)

Apple Trees

Additional 1-10 Exercises – Value of games

 

Math and Cultural Subjects A, Disk 2: Advanced or Linear Counting

Introduction

The 1-10 exercises as a foundation for the rest of the math area

The Zero Game

Teen Boards and Ten Boards

Teen Boards

Joan Cotter’s Math Way of Naming Numbers

Review of the Three Period Lesson

Ten Boards: 5 Presentations

Snake Game

Montessori, Mortensen, & Other Materials – Facilitating the Passage to Abstraction with Materials

Introduction to the Stamp Game

Division with the Stamp Game

Fraction Skittles: Fractions and Division

Mortensen Introduction – Subtraction introduction

Mortensen and Golden Bead Introduction

AL Abacus: Preferred to Dot Game, Vertical Bead Frame, and Operations Boards & Charts

Hello Wood Rulers: Traditional and Decimal system

Math and Cultural Subjects A, Disk 3: Progression of Exercises

General Introduction and Math Overview

Math Overview: 1-10 as the Foundation

Additional non-traditional Montessori materials teach essential concepts:

Strands

Linear Numeration or Advanced Counting

Operations, especially addition and subtraction

Decimal or Base Ten System (and multiplication)

Fractions and Division

Time, Measurement and Probability

Traditional Montessori Passage of Abstraction with Decimal System Work

Recommended Progression for Decimal System Work

Progressions of Difficulty

Progressions beyond math

Isolate the Difficulty or New Concept

Cultural Subjects

A.        Concrete to abstract

B.        Whole to parts

C.        Child to world

Passages to Difficulty in Other Areas

Montessori’s genius included using metaphors to make abstract concepts concrete.

The Mentor’s Challenge: Make it all explicit, accessible, and easy to understand

Group time

Importance of Good Props – Start with concrete examples whenever possible.

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