MONTESSORI VS. TRADITIONAL EDUCATION
MONTESSORI ENVIRONMENT
- Prepared kinesthetic materials with incorporated control of error and specially developed reference materials.
- Working and learning social development
- Unified, internationally developed curriculum
- Integrated subjects and learning based on developmental psychology
- Uninterrupted work cycles
- Multi-age classrooms
- School meets needs of students
- Process-focused assessment, skills report cards checklist, mastery benchmarks
TRADITIONAL ENVIRONMENT
- Textbooks, pencil and dittos/worksheets.
- Working and learning matched to the children without emphasis on social development of the child
- Narrow, unit driven
- Individual subjects
- Block time, period lessons
- Single-graded classrooms
- Students fit mold of school
- Product-focused