Montessori education is a particularly popular way of education in China in recent years. It is an educational model founded by Italian female educator maria montessori. It was originally designed for mentally retarded children. Adapted by some educational experts, it was introduced into China and popularized. This kind of education has advantages and disadvantages. It focuses on children's independent development, supplemented by teachers' passive guidance, which greatly exerts children's initiative, but weakens teachers' guidance. In fact, many well-known domestic education experts reject this kind of education, and some kindergartens also offer this special class for economic benefits. The purpose and level of running a kindergarten are also very different. This is not a required course. If you have good financial conditions, it doesn't hurt to participate. Some of her educational methods are still there. But we can't copy them all. Montessori's educational content Montessori's educational content is very extensive. Montessori pays more attention to children's self-centered learning activities, that is, autonomous learning activities, and the cultivation of attitudes and habits towards daily life, because Montessori cultivates a person, a person with a sound personality, who can not only have knowledge, but also know how to be a person, how to treat himself, how to treat others and how to treat society. Montessori education covers the following areas: 1. Daily life practice Daily life practice must cultivate children how to adapt to getting along with others, social life and environment. To be an independent person, a person with personality, he must have the ability to live, so daily life practice not only promotes the development of movement and body, but also cultivates wisdom. 2. Feeling education for children is in a sensitive period of feeling from birth to five years old. In the sensitive period, all kinds of senses are in the most active state, which is the best opportunity and opportunity to improve their sensory ability. Montessori proposed to cultivate emotion fundamentally. When training a feeling, don't involve other senses. Sensory stimuli appear in front of children in an isolated form, so that some of children's senses can concentrate on receiving this stimulus without interference from other sensory stimuli, which is helpful to improve their various sensory abilities. 3. Language education Language development includes the development of spoken and written language. They were all in a sensitive period until they were six years old. Then the development of oral English is naturally acquired by children in the language environment. In the process of natural language acquisition, Montessori especially put forward the "three-stage method" to practice. Let children master some vocabulary; Combining vocabulary with some actions and phenomena is the characteristic of Montessori language education. 4. Mathematics education Montessori's mathematics education is very full, from shallow to deep, and has a wide range of fields. She uses specific teaching AIDS to show the connotation of various mathematics, and it is an intuitive display, laying the foundation for children to learn various mathematics in the future and cultivating their interest in mathematics. Because children who study mathematics through Montessori like learning mathematics very much and have great interest in mathematics. 5, science and culture education Science and culture from people to animals, plants, and then to astronomy, geography, geology, earth, history, time, etc. Most of these are out of children's reach, but Montessori lets them know through teaching AIDS. For example, how do the nine planets form a solar system around the sun? The image of Montessori teaching AIDS intuitively shows their distance from the sun. Who is closest and who is farthest? Whose individual is the smallest and whose individual is the largest? In addition, we should know things from the general to the individual, which is just the opposite of our traditional education. For example, where we live, we must first know the earth, where it is-Asia; Where in Asia-China; Where in China?-Beijing. 6. Art education Art education refers to art and music. In terms of art, Montessori advocates giving children various colors, providing colored pens, paper and related materials and tools, so that children can carry out activities such as painting, bricklaying and handcrafting. However, Montessori does not advocate teachers to teach children deliberately, but let children use these materials automatically and spontaneously, and do whatever he can, instead of imitating anything deliberately. In music education, Montessori believes that music is expressed by singing, percussion instruments and movements.