Child-centered
Children are regarded as independent individuals different from adults, and the view of adult education is opposed.
Education without teaching
Oppose teacher-centered cramming teaching, advocate starting with daily life training, and let children learn spontaneously and actively with a good learning environment and rich teaching AIDS to build a perfect personality.
Grasp the sensitive period of children
Children aged 0-6 will have a certain preference tendency in a certain period. If you study along the sensitive period, you can get the greatest learning effect.
Teachers play the role of facilitators.
Teachers must have a deep understanding of children's spiritual world and know their children's development like the back of their hands in order to give them timely and appropriate help and guidance.
Cultivation of complete personality
The biggest purpose of education is to help children normalize. Through the design of environment and the operation of teaching AIDS, children can establish a perfect personality step by step.
Respect the rhythm of children's growth
According to the process of children's development, there should be no one-size-fits-all education for children with different characteristics in accordance with their aptitude.
Mixed-age teaching
Let children who span about three years old be together, and carry out teaching activities in the form of individuals and groups, so that younger children can have imitators of different ages, while older children can improve their knowledge and ability and cultivate love and responsibility by helping younger children.
Rich teaching materials and teaching AIDS
Montessori teaching AIDS are very rich, but these teaching AIDS are not teachers' teaching tools, but children's work materials. Through these tasks, children can establish a perfect personality from self-repeated operation exercises.
Eliminate the reward and punishment system
Dr Montessori believes that when children concentrate on their work, they can get a deep sense of pleasure. If children have to be rewarded and punished in order to prevent deviant behavior, then obedience is entirely due to fear of being beaten and scolded, not self-control. In the long run, children will develop the bad habit of not rewarding, not beating and not listening.
Exploding teaching achievements
Montessori education respects children's inner needs and allows them to grow up in a timely and appropriate manner. It is not easy to perceive the result in the short term, but it will show the child's inner growth with explosive force at some time.