Points about Montessori approach

Montessori approach for people with special needs

Montessori is an immortal phrase about mental disability and dealing with it: I differed with my colleagues in my belief that mental disability is essentially an educational problem rather than a medical problem, and this phrase represents the basis of Montessori thought and method in educating people with mental disabilities.

Points about Montessori approach

• The Montessori curriculum is a way of life followed by the whole family, and the principle of education in it depends on the mental age of the child, not his biological age.

• Respect for the child is the most important pillar of the Montessori Method. The learner is the focus, not the teacher. When your child speaks, use words such as “please,” “thank you,” and “excuse me.”

• Respecting the child’s abilities and capabilities and accepting the differences and differences between children, respecting the child’s personality, and keeping him away from the influences of adults while ensuring that he enjoys a great deal of freedom.

• The child must be a positive participant in an environment specially prepared for him, which allows him to choose activities and use his five senses to explore the world around him.

• Encouraging the child to take responsibility and participate in household and family tasks.

• The child will learn everything in due time. Don’t worry!

Basic scientific and educational ideas on which the Montessori method is based

1 – Monitoring the biological growth of children in a scientifically accurate manner with the aim of designing an educational curriculum that takes into account the individual capabilities of each child using natural self-education methods that exist in the child’s environment that are able to arouse the child’s interest. Through the prepared environment, we have the possibility to control what the child learns.

2 – “The external system helps in building the internal system”; a famous rule that she had called for its application in the classroom by means of educational tools that were equipped to suit the topics being learned, provided that they are presented from easy to difficult and from symbol to abstract, and thanks to these educational tools the child interacts With knowledge through his senses. (The child must learn about the world around him through his senses)

 3- It is based on an educational philosophy that claims that every child carries within him the person he will be in the future.

4- It is concerned with the development of the child’s personality in an integrated manner (physically and psychologically) to help him develop his creative abilities, the ability to solve problems, develop critical thinking and time management abilities.

5- Ensure that children have freedom of choice and movement, not direct imitation.

6 – The role of the teacher in it is limited to observing the child in order to determine his interests and tendencies, and thus prepare the appropriate environment to suit the needs of the child. That is, everything that surrounds the child must serve him and meet his needs (that is, his role is to direct towards learning without interference), Maintaining the child’s interest by encouraging him and providing him with information about the main points so that he can know what to do.