“If you can’t make a mistake you can’t make anything”, that’s what educator Marva Collins said. She knew something about learning that too often is forgotten. Why do schools traditionally focus so much on “how many did you get wrong? how many right?” In doing so a culture of “the right answer” is created. The […]
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When Helping is not a Good Idea
Here’s a story that was told to me recently: in some store for small children, there’s a toddler trying to pull out a chair at a small table so as to be able to use something that’s on the table. The toddler is struggling to pull the chair out… it’s a lot of work… finally […]
Montessori Myths
It is a given that anything that has been around for as long as the Montessori Method (over 108 years now) that it will at times be misunderstood, miscommunicated, criticized and poorly defined. And so, over the years, many things have been said about the approach to developmental education that Dr. Maria Montessori pioneered in […]