MONTESSORI VS. TRADITIONAL EDUCATION
- VIMEO: Why 20th Century Educational Methods Won’t Work in the 21st Century and What We Can Do About It
- Evaluating Montessori Education – A study compares the outcomes of Montessori education with traditional education
- Montessori Is An Example Of The New Culture of Learning, By Steve Denning, Forbes Magazine
- Montessori Builds Innovators, By Andrew McAfee, Harvard Business Review Blog
- Montessori: The Missing Voice in the Education Reform Debate, By Laura Flores Shaw, Head of School Oak Knoll Kinderhaus Montessori
- The Single Best Idea for Reforming K-12 Education
- Standing Up to Testing, By Ginia Bellafante, New York Times
- Stop Stealing Dreams (What is school for?) – Large-scale education was not developed to motivate kids or to create scholars. It was invented to churn out adults who worked well within the system.
- Outdated Teaching is Failing Our Children
- Public School Stakes Its Future on the Montessori Way
- Joy: A Subject Schools Lack – Becoming educated should not require giving up pleasure, By Susan Engel, The Atlantic
NEUROSCIENCE SUPPORTS MONTESSORI
- VIMEO: The Science Behind the Method – A pediatric neuropsychologist shares why Montessori education leads to higher order cognitive functions critical for advanced problem solving and lifetime success.
- Neurological Argument for the Phonetic Approach to Learning Language – “The exploration and education of language in a Montessori classroom is so easy and natural because it begins phonetically and gradually matures to include the complex mysteries of the English language.”
- Brain Development and Learning: Making Sense of Science
Why Tools of the Mind and Montessori Educational Approaches Can Help Executive Function Skills – Watch this impressive YouTube video by Adele Diamond, PhD. It is worth the 9 minutes!
RESEARCH SUPPORTS MONTESSORI
- Executive Function: Skills for Life and Learning: From the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University
- Research Shows Benefits of Montessori Education
- Evaluating Montessori Education – A study compares the outcomes of Montessori education with traditional education
- Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius
- Research Validates Montessori Approach to Teaching Language
- Research findings: The Montessori Method
- Montessori Research and Articles from Montessori Northwest
- Test-free System Gives Children a Better Start in Life
- Montessori Is An Example Of The New Culture of Learning
- The Montessori Mafia – Wall Street Journal
- Montessori Through the Eyes of a Scientist
TED TALKS EDUCATION
- TED: Why Should You Listen to Sir Ken Robinson – Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we’re educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.
Sir Ken Robinson – Bring on the learning revolution! – In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning — creating conditions where kids’ natural talents can flourish.
Sir Ken Robinson – Schools Kill Creativity – Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
Sir Ken Robinson’s Top 10 Talks on Education – Watch these insightful TED talks on education recommended by creativity expert and cultural leader, Sir Ken Robinson
MONTESSORI TESTIMONIALS
- Montessori Words: Where people share their Montessori stories – Read what parents, families and children from all over the world say about their Montessori experience.
- We Are Montessori: Where Montessori alumni share their stories
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
- Sen. Tom Harkin: Fixing Economy Starts With Early Education
- Early Lesson: Flexibility Leads To Creativity At Work
- The New York Times: Scientific Inquiry Among the Preschool Set
PARENTING
- Parenting while distracted: By Jane Scott, The Washington Post
- What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? – Making mistakes and incorrect decisions is an important part of life. How else do we know what NOT to do?
- Importance of Failure – Allowing your children to make mistakes and experience disappointments is the biggest gift you can give to your child.
- Too Much Praise Is No Good for Toddlers
- Slow, Free Range, Idle Parents Can Increase IQ and Happiness, By Kirsten Dirksen, Co-founder, faircompanies.com
- Aid to Life: Supporting the Natural Development of Children – This is a wonderful parenting resource for infants and young children.
- Welcome to the Age of Overparenting, By Katherine Ozment
- Are you raising nice kids? A Harvard psychologist gives 5 ways to raise them to be kind, By Amy Joyce, The Washington Post
- Preparing the Home Environment
- Montessori Biology – Birth to Age Twelve, By Michael Olaf Montessori – Providing practical Montessori information with families and schools for over a quarter of a century
- Train a Parent, Spare a Child, By Bruce Feiler, New York Times – “…giving children tangible rewards — from money to sweets to an extra hour before bedtime — not only doesn’t work in the long term, it actually has a negative effect on them.” So if bribes don’t work, what does? Read the article for suggestions on how to modify a child’s behavior without bribes or rewards.
- Learn about Practical Life at Home
- Modern Parenting: Tips, Tricks, and Traps, By Steven Hughes
- Ten Montessori Home Parenting Tips for Children Under 3
- Compassionate Communication – It’s how we relate in the classroom
- Good Parents
- Montessori Parenting Ideas for Summer
- Montessori in the Home
Embrace Those Mistakes With Gusto!, By Kathy Masarie
CHILDREN ON MEDIA
- Steve Jobs Was a Low-Tech Parent, By Nick Bilton, The New York Times
- What kids watch matters, it’s not just how much they watch – Research has linked TV-watching with long-term attention problems in children
- Video Game Addiction: A nation watches as its youth turn into zombies
- Technology Changing How Students Learn, Teachers Say, By Matt Richtel, The New York Times
EDUCATED PERSPECTIVES
- PODCAST: Back to School, This American Life Podcast with Host Ira Glass – An emerging theory about what to teach kids, from Paul Tough’s new book “How Children Succeed”
- Corporate Kindergarten: How A Montessori Mindset Can Transform Your Business, By Justin Wasserman, Forbes Magazine
- Electronic devices may keep teens from sleeping, By Robert Preidt, Health Day
- Self-Regulation: The Key to Successful Students?
- The Competing Views on Competition, by Matt Richtel, The New York Times
- Need a Job? Invent It, by Thomas L. Freidman, The New York Times
- Stop Stealing Dreams (what is school for?), By Seth Godin
- Is the Web Driving Us Mad?, By Tony Dokoupil, Newsweek
- The Children’s Menu], By Seth Godin
- The Pop! of the Wild, By Aaron Hirsch, The New York Times – A look at the online education debate
- Struggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning
- A Link Between Fidgety Boys and a Sputtering Economy, By David Leonhardt, The New York Times
- The Dicey Parent-Teacher Duet