Montessori Teaching and Materials
“Materials education”, “with” the function, so it has serious meaning, not in the kitchen is optional for or sitting room, Also must have exclusive “room”, and the use of certain rules, so it can be respected. Again, because of AIDS have specific teaching effect, Such as pink towers, to let the child can touch and vision to distinguish size, so the color is designed, aimed at cause, concentration and not for other factors have interference. But, in children can fully familiar with the basic function, it can be allowed to use a change in his teaching.
Materials education has the child size, weight, height, and maximum, big… To a minimum, let the child can produce sequence, sequence, sense of “order” education quality, It not only appeared in books, also involves the itself to periphery of all actions. Therefore, the user must take order to aid in order, and to respect it simultaneously, and maintain its quality. In this the children grew up, cultivated the will respect “pecking order” and “first” social ethics and social order.
Montessori teaching characteristics
(1) the montessori teaching does not choose the color with emotions, colorful simplicity, clean tonal give priority to. Because it has the education, so usually use single tone, underlines the real education target, also is the most isolated. For example: pink towers of 10 wood is all pink.
(2) the teaching goal, the most important is the intrinsic need for with children in size, size, and so on, with only consider the ability for children, for example: the largest pink towers, children can carry it.
(3) every AIDS are able to attract children factors, such as pink tower of weight, color wood, When the beans, peas or spoon. Sasha vujacic
(4) in the design, supply of materials for the main consideration a person operating goals.
(5) each individual and joint use of materials, and has its steps and order to finish. But whatever on the design method in use, or are from simple to complex, its main purpose is to educate children understand steps, or on order, and the “inner cultivation indirectly discipline.”
(6) everything has a direct and indirect materials of education purpose. (7) in the design, can control the characteristics, can make mistakes by mistake, and found that children can correct itself, such as: pink tower has ten minimum piece is made of a centimeter, the biggest piece for square centimeters is very large, so the cubes just sent a large with times. In children can finish after the tower of picked up the smallest piece, measure the gap between each piece, he will find exactly is one centimeter. (8) by steps, order of logical behavior and reasoning ability.
Montessori teaching according to the types of montessori education for children to write about the manual, education, education, hands-on knowledge of language and the senses, and freedom, writing, and reading, do arithmetic, and the moral education etc. Eight.