Montessori Life Blog

Is Montessori Better for Students than Traditional Methods?

A recent meta-analysis of Montessori research may help put the debate to rest: Montessori does have a robust positive effect on students’ academic and non-academic outcomes.

When Sensory Sensitivity Requires Intervention: Assessment and Treatment of Sensory-Sensitive Children (Featured in Montessori Life Magazine)

How sensory processing disorders are diagnosed and addressed, including classroom techniques for Montessori teachers. (Part 3 of 3 articles about sensory sensitivity in Early Childhood.)

Tips for Building Effective Communication with Families, Staff, and Students

Examine the tools necessary for effectively communicating with families, staff, and students

Classroom Solutions for Sensory-Sensitive Students (Featured in Montessori Life Magazine)

Explore how to create a sensory-friendly school environment. (Part 2 of 3 articles about sensory sensitivity in Early Childhood.)

What is Translanguaging and How Can It Be Used in the Classroom?

Translanguaging, a process where multilingual learners utilize all their language knowledge, can be used in the classroom to support students’ overall learning.

Language Teaching and Learning, “The Best Time is Now”: An Interview with Gabrielle Kotkov from Multilingual Montessori

Read a digital interview from Gabrielle Kotkov, Montessori educator, TESOL instructor, and founder of Multilingual Montessori

Supporting Sensory-Sensitive Children in a Sensory-Intensive World (Featured in Montessori Life Magazine)

A look at how sensory processing disorders manifest in children. (Part 1 of 3 articles about sensory sensitivity in Early Childhood.)

Tracing the Spiral Curriculum: Montessori, Bruner, and the Bold Idea

To everything turn, turn, turn—how a spiraling curriculum expands the child’s learning horizons.

Manners, Naturally (Featured in Montessori Life Magazine)

Opportunities to teach our children manners often come up without warning and can catch us off guard. What should we keep in mind so that when they occur, we handle them with grace?

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Environmental Education in the Montessori Classroom (From Montessori Life Summer 2023)

Exploring solid waste reduction through creative reuse: Teaching young children to see waste as a resource and develop lifelong sustainable habits.

Empowering the Next Generation through Civic Engagement

A civics still program in action supports going out and local community.

Work Needs Play (From the Fall 2023 Issue of Montessori Life Magazine)

In this article, Paul Epstein reviews Montessori positions on play, looks at research on the effects of social isolation, and advances the premise that “work needs play."

Check out the Fall 2023 Issue of Montessori Life Magazine (Members Only)

5 Tips to Talk to Children about Difficult Topics

Announcing the Second Annual Leadership Labposium

New Merchandise Available from AMS

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