Teacher Talk

Teacher Talk: Preparing for the New Year

Are your shelves cleaned? Have you reorganized your cupboards? Are they a safe distance apart? Decided whether the loft should be a readi...

Teacher Talk: Breaking Bread

Montessori teaching is a calling that demands self-care. We are intellectually engaged long beyond after the children have gone home, ana...

Teacher Talk: Teacher Motivation

For many of us, February days are some of the loveliest. The classroom is buzzing with a happy hum, parents understand the expectations a...

Teacher Talk: When Children Are Hurtful

The child is capable of developing and giving us tangible proof of the possibility of a better humanity. He has shown us the true process...

Teacher Talk: Observing Writing

We know that part of our work as Montessori teachers is to observe children. We observe to understand their development, that we may bett...

Teacher Talk: Welcoming Guests

Just when your class has finally hit its pace, when the hectic scheduling of the holidays is behind you and the children have returned to...

Teacher Talk: Observers in the Classroom

Montessori classrooms enchant curious observers. How can so many young children engage so independently at once? How come everyone seems ...

Teacher Talk: Teaching in the Third Plane

Oh, you dear, patient, lovely people, you teachers of adolescents, you bold adventurers blazing a new path for an ever widening generatio...

Teacher Talk: Making Time for Observation

You may be getting ready to return to your classroom with a whole list of teacher resolutions in your mind. Maybe you're planning to take...

Teacher Talk: Hygge

This Saturday, if you're like most teachers, you find yourself away from school, maybe resting, maybe preparing for the festivities of Ch...

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