Misconceptions and the Elevator Speech
It's an old game in Montessori teacher education programs: can you give your "elevator speech about Montessori," that brief explanation...
Teacher Talk: Collaborating Across the Planes
Scientists repeat their experiments. But they don't just repeat their own experiments. They often repeat each other's as well. Repeating...
Teacher Talk: Why You Should Go to Conference and What You Should Do While You're There
It's almost Spring, that season when Montessori conferences pop up like daffodils to enchant and inspire Montessori teachers all over the...
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,...
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...
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...
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...