The Montessori Elementary Classroom: Structure & Learning Goals

Group of children collaborating on the floor work mat, using the Montessori Color Tablets material to practice visual discrimination of color gradients and hues

My son walked into his first-grade Montessori classroom expecting desks, textbooks, and a teacher at the front of the room. Instead, he found three sixth-graders hunched over a detailed timeline of human history they’d created. A group of second-graders was conducting a science experiment with water and different materials. Two fourth-graders were planning a field … Read more