Thursday, February 7, 2019
Discussion 4
I found Montessori’s method most interesting. This method proposed that “children learn best when the environment supports their natural desire to acquire skills”. My schooling was all about asking the teacher for help, the teacher teaching every little detail, and rarely doing things on my own. In Montessori’s method of teaching, she was all about independence and working at the students pace. What I like best about Montessori’s’s method, is that if the student didn’t understand something, they would stick to that subject and not move on. For example, if I didn’t know something, teachers didn’t really wait for you to figure it out. This method of teaching helped students excel in school that maybe wouldn’t have normally excelled in a normal teaching environment. This method should be done because it gives children a great amount of confidence. The feeling of actually doing something on your own, working at your own pace, and actually understanding it, is key to learning.
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Keeley,
ReplyDeleteI also thought Montessori's learning methods were interesting. She felt independence was more valuable than co-dependence, which is interesting. I personally think you need both to properly function in a society. I think both Montessori's idea of school and schooling today both have good and bad methods for learning but I agree that actually understanding something is the key to learning.