1, daily life education
In daily life, everything that children can see and touch can be their "learning objects". Montessori skillfully integrates daily life into the classroom, providing children with a reduced version of society. Children learn basic life skills such as peeling, cutting and sewing by operating teaching AIDS; At the same time, children also learn social etiquette during the operation and become polite and civilized.
2. Sensory education
Sensory education in Montessori education cultivates children's concentration, attention and judgment by observing, comparing, touching, distinguishing, comparing and tasting, thus laying the foundation for children to form logical thinking ability. Sensory education is the basis of learning mathematics.
3. Mathematics education
Montessori mathematics education is not the concept of numbers and boring arithmetic, but the use of common materials and teaching AIDS in daily life, so that children can concretize abstract mathematics through sensory exercises such as pairing, sorting and classification, cultivate children's ability of analysis, integration and judgment, and then enhance their logical thinking ability.
4. Language education
Montessori language education not only includes listening, speaking, reading and writing, but also includes the cultivation of children's emotional attitude and behavior habits; It is mainly through games and stories to gradually cultivate children's interest and ability in listening, speaking, writing and reading, so that children can learn to communicate, express, share and read, and form good ideological and moral quality.
5. Geography and cultural education
Montessori believes that children are part of the environment and culture. The more they identify with culture, the more they can adapt to the living environment. Geographical and cultural education includes not only astronomy, geology, earth science, geography, zoology and botany, history, but also music and art, covering almost everything in the universe.
Characteristics of Montessori education;
1, child-centered
Oppose the adult-centered teaching concept and regard children as independent individuals different from adults. Like caterpillars and butterflies.
2. Education without teaching
Montessori opposes teacher-centered cramming teaching, and advocates starting with daily life training, with a good learning environment and rich teaching AIDS, allowing children to learn spontaneously and actively and construct their perfect personality.
3. Grasp the sensitive period of children.
Children aged 0-6 will have specific preferences. If you learn this feature along the sensitive period, you can get the greatest learning effect.
4. Teachers play the role of facilitators.
The teacher's job is to observe children's inner needs, design the environment for children, demonstrate the operation of teaching AIDS, and then teach according to children's individual differences and give timely guidance. This kind of education without teaching and without class can make the relationship between teachers and students harmonious, and children can naturally learn happily.