The third in line of succession to the British throne, Prince George, 2, entered the school this year. The chosen institution was Westacre Montessori in Norfolk, the same attended by his father, Prince William. Against the value of technology in education, Westacre, computer use is not a priority.
According to the website of the Montessori Society, of which the boy’s school part, working with technology not necessarily need to make use of this machine. You can work the subject with light switches, among other items.
The school is adept at the Montessori method. Created by Italian Maria Montessori (1870-1952), he preaches that the child learns alone, leaving the adults to provide an environment and learning materials for that
The Education of Prince George will focus on the management of learning own time and the organization of tasks. “We make them learn to make decisions, to organize their schedule as they grow,” says Edimara Lima, director of the Press Montessori School in São Paulo.
According to the website of Montessori Society, decision-making becomes even on not force children to stay at the table focusing if they prefer to be in the garden, pulling weeds from the earth.
the Montessori method is famous for giving children freedom of choice and many materials –deixados the reach of alunos– to learn the curricular content. There is not much difference from what is taught in a traditional school, except in teaching history and geography.
The Montessori schools work starting from the general history of the universe, for the particular traditional –the do the opposite movement.
according to Edimara, the big difference provided by Montessori is the way it is taught. It allowed children to explore a lot that is around you, try and choose (and early learn to choose means having to delete).
In all, the teacher does not have a prominent role, as in traditional schools. The self-education is more emphasis than lectures, when the teacher talks and the students listen.
Maria Cristina de Abreu, a professor of Prima School Montessori formed by MCI (Montessori Centre International) in London, explains that there schools work so similar to those of Brazil. “In mathematics, young children use the ‘number rods’, called here the blue and red bars that are between ten centimeters and one meter, to learn issues related to the amount,” he says.
In life practice, the school provides for children to be more independent and learn to open and close buttons and zippers as well as to tie the shoelace.
According to Maria Cristina, the great secret of Montessori education is to know what to do with the learning materials. Prima School, for example, each class has 600-650 proposals for work to be selected by the educator and then offered to students.
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