A Public School Transitions to Montessori
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2024
- In rural South Carolina, a Title I school makes the leap to become a Montessori school.
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I wish they did this in my town. I hate that the only Montessori schools in our area are so expensive. Maria Montessori originally created this type of learning for poor kids. It’s a shame that more school districts dnt have this program.
I’m crying happy tears!! As an educator, I’m happy to see a district change their education program for the good of the children. Also, getting parents involved. I like how the teachers were honest about how it was hard to change but they did!!!
Wow. A public Montessori school!?
I wish California would start transitioning! You guys are a model school! Really happy to see this 🤗
Johann Mondragon California has a ton of public Montessori schools more than most states. They are considered public charter school they also have public Waldorf schools. I grew up in grass valley ca and I went to Waldorf school and my mom never paid a dime.
Amber Mitchell where I live in California. I work in Orange County so I haven’t seen any public Montessori program
I like how they individualized it. This is how each child succeeds at their pace. Forget yearly CC testing.
Wow, more people should see this. I grew up in a Montessori school and it's probably the best thing to happen to me. If only traditional schools where more personalized and social.
I'm so in love with everyone's accent! So adorable
This needs to be in the headlines of the news - inspire other school districts who are looking to better serve their students.
I wonder how they are continuing to thrive? I'm so pleased to see the district make the transition and I hope it is still working.
That superintendent is awesome 👏
This seems really similar to the new open-plan-learning schools in New Zealand.
The problem is these schools definitely don’t work for all students.
Does anything work for everyone?
I'm curious about the teacher:student ratio in theses SC classes - it looked quite good. It surprised me that there are so many public Montessori schools in SC!
This is what we need!!! Amazing!
Greaaaaat!!
Awesome! Thank you!
This video was extremely helpful! Thanks so much!!
I can't help but wonder why the Montessori system isn't implemented nationwide, especially if it has been so effective in over 145 countries around the world. Does anyone really have an answer? I can also image how difficult it was for some teachers who had been taught how to teach children within certain age groups and then to make a shift to the Montessori method. When I've heard of Montessori in the past, I associated it with young children, not adolescents in secondary education. One teacher in the video really described two of the most important things students learn through the Montessori method: to be independent thinkers and to solve problems. I am sure that another thing that they learn through Montessori is to learn how to learn. In my opinion, these are the most important things for children to acquire through their educational experience. I don't see any follow-up videos to this one posted in 2019, but I am very curious to know how the schools are doing, how the outcomes of these students compare to those in traditional schools, and how the teachers adjust their techniques in the classroom, from being the teacher to being facilitators of learning experiences for their students.
This is beautiful!
Love this!
brilliant!
amazing.......
I go to a Montessori school🥰
Lucky you!
i wish we have this in my state, we love montessori but montessori school is too expensive.
👍🏻👍🏻
Thing is that most Montessori cost a small fortune . Even if you get funding it’s still doesn’t cover all the costs . Not sure it will work for all kinds of learners but that goes for any education system .
Agreed, unfortunately most Montessori are private schools....we have a 4 yr old in Montessori preschool in the Bay Area and its RIDICULOUS $. This story though, is about a public charter montessori which would mean it is probably free. This is not an affluent town. They also say that South Carolina has the largest number of public montessori schools in the US. I would LOVE if I could keep my kids in montessori vs standard public school. I have to say I disagree about "all kinds of learners"...I think it is precisely FOR that because they are teaching to each individual child based on their needs, interests, and talents :)
Montessori isn't about the materials. That is the biggest misconception people get with Montessori.
I can't find the stats now, but I read somewhere that the cost per student (not tuition, what it actually costs to educate them) for Montessori is comparable or less than the average amount currently spent by the government. (I found that stat - it's over $11,000
www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/04/16/the-5-states-that-spend-the-most-on-students.html). The hardest part is the transition, and the money necessary upfront to train and outfit many classrooms initially.
@@megcl12 Montessori is used in many third world countries..so it may be costing that in the US but there is no way that that is what it is costing in the rest of the world..part of the problem is economies of scale. As there is more demand the materials will become cheaper and that is the major cost. If there is more demand it will also probably become part of or an option for teaching degrees as well.
Interesting, no devices. Is that on purpose?
There's none in the primary grades, but older students can use technology. They do try to be selective about it though.
We saw the children using a laptop to look at elephants. Computers are not a major part of the Montessori system especially for smaller children when you are trying to get them to develop a wide range of physical skills. Even the maths and language equipment will often be designed to aid muscle strength or motor skills. The number spindle box encourages a pincer grip for example. Number rod are large and require quite a lot of co ordination reaching and stretching.
More districts would do this if it wasn't for fear of failing state exams, so they continue to teach to the test.
Thank you. What book is it? (1:07)
Irina Tsvetkova „Good friends” by Emma Rose Benman
Nice
I am in third grade MontessoRI
What they are missing here is that it seems to incorporate play into learning primarily, and that can be very positive for some children.
I had no focus in school at all. I have a grade 3 education in mathematics and I am 37 years old. Both primary and high-school for me were at private institutions tilting to the most expensive side of the scale for my area. Both schools faculties focused on a zero tolerance strategy rather than content with which there was an expectation of obedience disciplined by punishments eg: detention and if allowed, spanking or suspension or just the daily scream and spit in the face.
These schools failed me. They fractured my learning capabilities and ruined my social skills with its brutal full-frontal accountability and punishment style, embarrassing and humiliating the children in front of there peers and playing power games were teaching methods.
I was afraid of school, anxious and reclusive. I didnt relate to the other children well, many of them avoided me.
I have not been able to hold down a job, keep friends or learn basic skills because I didn’t belong in mainstream schools. I slowly learned thought my adulthood but it was very hard.
I didn’t learn to tell the time until I was 17, never got a “pen license” because of my dyslexia which left me out of everyone else even though I won awards for my hardly legible story telling skills often I was brought to the principle to be questioned if my work was plagiarism in grade 4 so even if i did find a talent i felt i was punished for it.
I felt like I was bad all the time. Once i took a piece of chalk to draw on the ground and i was dragged by the wrist to the principle and punished for “stealing” put on 3 weeks no play. It rotted my self confidence.
They turned my bright dark in every way even though many others flourished from those institutes. I cant be alone.
You are definitely now alone. I think most of us who attended public schools in the US probably had very similar experiences. I can certainly relate! Based on what you've written, you were motivated to learn (for living life) and learned in a way similar to the one in which these children learn in a Montessori environment. I have always wondered how I could have been different today if I had learned in a more socialized educational environment, opposed to the one in which the teacher was the "boss" and you just simply had to obey their rules; they just stood at the front all day or sat at a desk reading something but never gave any individual guidance in learning to individuals. Group work in school for the entire twelve years never happened. After earning a BS in business administration, a BA in German, and an MA in TESOL, I learned how to teach foreign language through mostly social interaction. I have learned through my own 26 years of teaching experience that every subject should be taught the way we teach foreign language---through social interaction, in addition to only minimal "teaching." Students are given a focus and guidance and then they practice to acquire the knowledge they need. Before I die (which I hope isn't soon!), I would love to see the entire US adopt a system with methods like those of the Montessori method or those in Finland. Time will tell. In the meantime, I am going to follow up with these schools in South Carolina. All the best!
@@deanbushsadly the ones who are super passionate about the education field are often pushed out.
I thought Montessori schools don't have grades?? Anybody know?? Like 1st grade..2nd grade?
Traditionally no..... you have stages which are about where the child is on their personal learning journey and is in bands so materials will be 3-6 for example.....but you have to remember that Montessori set up her system about 110 years ago..so you can still use ethos, the materials and the teaching methods without sticking to every minutiae of her terminology. Montessori has evolved it would have to to remain relevant. There we no computers 100 years ago, children would not have traveled like they do now. The most important things are the child centered learning (children learning at their own pace), respect of the child, concrete to abstract learning and the prepared environment. " “The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.” Maria Montessori. whether you say 1st grade 2nd grade is very small potatoes and doesn't invalidate the learning. Hope that helps
In my Montessori school classes were grouped into three grades. 1-3rd grade in one classroom, 4-6th in another, and 7-8th in the next. Traditional the last class was supposed to be 7-9th grade, but in my town 9th grade started high school and we did not have a Montessori high school.