Marie Montessori

The educational philospher that i chose to align myself if with Marie Montessori. Marie;s philosphy is said to apply more to elementary education than any other area of eduication. Her philosphy states that children at an elementary level have different needs that elementary teachers need to be sensative toward.Which i totally agree with there are things in a kindergarten class that a teacher needs to be sensative or careful toward that a fifth grade teacher wouldnt do. She says that from birth to age 6 "children are sensorial explorers wtudying every aspect of their enviroment" such as culture language and the actions of other. Which i totally agree with because everyone one has had an experience when a parent accidently slipped out a bad word in from of there child and they repeat it over and over again. Just proving that a child is learning language by observing the enviroment that they are in.

One of her philosphies are that children at age 6 through 12 start to go through different stages where they are developing "new powers" and there imagination is growing. Which is completely true age 6 is when a child is in first grade and is startting to learn and understand and comphrended what is going on around them. They start to build an imagination, which can br brought out by drawing pictures etc in a classroom.

Marie Montessori also says that " a childs work is creates the person he or she will become." In order to become this person that there striving to be they must be taught the proper things in education. Which is a big part of her philosphy as well, she thinks that if a child is not taught young good learning skills by there teachers then it will be harder to teach them when there older. She thinks that teachers should recongnize the certain stages that a child is going through and use these persiods of time to indivulaize the chiild and use the appropriate matterials to benefit them in a classroom enviroment. Which i totally agree with when a child is going through differnt stages the best thing to do is to capialize on those points in time and make it benefit the child in so many ways.