Children's perspective
1. Children are the main body: Montessori believes that children are active learners, not passive recipients. Children know and understand the world through their own exploration and experience, while adults should respect children's subjectivity, provide them with appropriate environment and support, and let them explore and develop freely.
2. Children's inner potential: Montessori believes that every child has inner potential and strength, which can be fully exerted through proper guidance and environment. Adults should pay attention to children's inner needs and development and help children explore their potential and talents.
3. Children need a free environment: Montessori believes that children need a free environment so that they can explore, learn and grow freely. This environment should be a loving, orderly and regular environment to make children feel safe and free. In such an environment, children can better develop their own personality and creativity and realize their self-worth.
Pre-school education content
1, daily life education: Montessori believes that daily life education should focus on cultivating children's independent ability, including basic life skills, such as dressing, washing, cooking, and some social skills, such as interacting with people and cooperating to complete tasks. Through daily life education, let children learn how to take care of themselves and lay the foundation for independent life in the future.
2. Sensory education: Montessori believes that sensory education is very important for children's cognitive development. Through sensory education, children can learn how to perceive and understand the world through sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. In Montessori preschool education, teachers will provide children with various sensory AIDS, such as color blocks, musical instruments, puzzles, etc., to stimulate their interest and curiosity.
3. Mathematics education: Montessori believes that mathematics education is an important way to cultivate children's logical thinking and abstract thinking ability. In Montessori's preschool education, teachers will teach children basic mathematical knowledge such as counting, word recognition, addition and subtraction through various teaching AIDS and activities, and at the same time pay attention to cultivating children's mathematical thinking ability, such as spatial imagination, inductive reasoning ability and so on.
Enlightenment of Montessori education to family education;
1. Respect children's individuality and uniqueness: every child has his own interests, specialties and needs. Parents should fully understand and respect their children's personality and encourage them to explore and develop their potential freely. In family education, parents should avoid too much interference and force their children to study, but provide appropriate guidance and support to help their children learn and grow independently.
2. Create a good growth environment: Montessori's educational philosophy emphasizes the importance of the environment, which is a necessary condition for children to grow up. Parents should create a warm, safe and loving family environment for their children so that they can learn and grow in a pleasant atmosphere. Parents should also pay attention to children's mental health, find and solve children's psychological problems in time, and provide necessary emotional support and security for children.
3. Cultivate children's autonomy and independence: Montessori's educational philosophy emphasizes children's autonomy and independence, which is considered to be an important factor for children's healthy growth. In family education, parents should encourage their children to think independently, make independent decisions and solve problems independently, and cultivate their independence and autonomy. Parents should also let their children complete some tasks and responsibilities independently, and cultivate their sense of responsibility and self-confidence.