A New Era for Montessori: Guidepost Global Education Unites 100+ Schools Across the U.S. and Asia
Guidepost Global Education (GGE) announces its formation as a leading global Montessori network.
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The Guidepost Approach to Developing a Child’s Mathematical Mind
A Deep Dive into the Children’s House (preschool-kindergarten) Math Curriculum and how it empowers advanced math skills in 3 to 6-year-olds. Math is perhaps the most dreaded subject in conventional schools. Students everywhere bemoan that it’s boring, irrelevant, and utterly mystifying. In studying math, a student often finds that maybe he can memorize and obey the arbitrary algorithms
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Does Montessori Rush a Child’s Development?
Children in a Montessori environment make stunning achievements. Infants as young as 6-months-old learn to drink from an open cup made from real glass. Toddlers as young as 18-months-old learn to put on their own coats and shoes. Preschoolers as young as 2.5 to 3 years old build the foundation of phonics and often read
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The Guidepost Approach to Developing Strong Readers (Who Love to Read!)
In many ways, the signature feature of a Montessori Children’s House (preschool-kindergarten) is its language curriculum. From the moment a child enters at 2.5 to 3-years-old, she begins building the foundation of literacy with engaging games and hands-on study of phonics. Once she’s in her capstone Kindergarten year, all the preparation and work up to that
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How Prepared Montessorian Institute Prepares Guides for the Classroom from Day One
A look at Guidepost’s partner teacher-training institute, Prepared Montessorian Institute, and how it provides guides best-in-class training When you observe a 20-month-old toddler serve herself a snack, throw away scraps and stack her dirty plate when she finishes, and wash her hands before going back to work—all without a word of reminder from an adult—the
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Kindergarten at Guidepost
Explore why the third year of Children’s House, which corresponds with the age that children traditionally start kindergarten, is so critically important. Our Children’s House programs, like all high-fidelity Montessori programs, exist on a three-year cycle. Not experiencing the culmination of the first two years of work and progress is like stopping a movie before
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Maria Montessori Quotes
A summary of our favorite quotes from Montessori founder Maria Montessori We’ve rounded up some of our favorite Maria Montessori quotes from her teachings. We hope you find them inspiring! Maria Montessori Quotes “The different parts of the brain must not only be stimulated in order to make them function, but must work together in
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The Importance of Practical Life Activities Within the Montessori Method
Learn how practical life activities in Montessori provide scope and sequence for everyday routines and practices One of the pleasures of watching a child grow is being shocked out of taking the mundane for granted. The most ordinary things that we seemingly know without thinking and can do without trying, are for the child wondrous,
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The Difference Between Montessori and Daycare
Weighing up child care options? Learn about the differences between Montessori schools and daycare centers, so that you can select the best arrangement for your family The experiences children have from birth to around six years old lay the foundations for their future behavior, health, abilities, and interests as adults. In essence, early childhood helps
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Teaching Reading and Writing with Montessori
The Montessori curriculum is thoughtfully built around teaching children the many elements of reading and writing one by one, in an accessible and enjoyable way Reading and writing are sometimes taken for granted by adults who have mastered the skills—but looking at them from a child’s perspective, they are skills of Herculean difficulty. Literacy is
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