![]() ![]() Before becoming a college professor, I was Montessori educated, a Montessori teacher and teacher trainer, and the mom of two (now-grown) Montessori kids. ![]() I’ve been a student of Montessori’s all my life. Even the common practice of letting children sit on the floor was revolutionary when Montessori allowed it in her first school in 1906. Many of Montessori’s original ideas are commonplace today, especially in preschools and kindergarten classrooms: child-sized tables, hands-on games and other opportunities to play at school. She upended conventional thinking about education by, among other things, letting kids freely choose from an array of classroom activities to foster their independence. One of Italy’s first female doctors, Montessori applied her training as a scientist to teaching children in new ways. One hundred and fifty years after Maria Montessori’s birth, tens of thousands of teachers around the world still hail her innovations and educational philosophy. ![]()
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