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• Montessori is Child-centered A lot of schools where teachers take center stage talk about being "child-centered". MSR truly is. In Montessori we speak of the "triad" of child, material, and guide ("teacher") where each part of the triad is as important as the other and where the teacher is an observer, follower, and guide who facilitates the child's academic, social, and intellectual exploration. • Montessori is a carefully-created and painstakingly prepared environment where every element of the curriculum, the materials, and the classroom is designed to engage the learner from Toddler through Middle School. Maria Montessori crafted an educational approach and developed materials that correspond to the natural order of each child's individual development and that make abstract concepts real through concrete experiences. A Montessori school believes that educational environments should stress cooperative learning, and an interdisciplinary curriculum, and holistic instruction. • Montessori stresses learning by doing and by teaching others. At MSR we provide especially designed, multi-sensorial materials that engage the children constantly in their own learning, allowing each to learn (and to understand) by doing. With cross-age, cross-grade groupings in three year developmental cycles, children eventually internalize what they have learned by teaching the younger children and by being mentors and role models. In this way they also learn leadership and responsibility. • Montessori School of Raleigh Directors and Directresses are experienced, certified professionals who have had rigorous Montessori training and a practical in-class internship that leads to certification for the 3-year cycle with which they work. The same level of education, training, background, and experience is required of Toddler and Children's House faculty as for Elementary and Middle School faculty. All teachers at MSR, from Toddler through Middle School, are on the same salary scale. • Montessori stresses a values-based multicultural curriculum. Well before "values curriculum" became a trendy educational buzzword, Grace and Courtesy have been an integral part of the Montessori day. How we create community, how we resolve conflicts, how we solve problems, and how we treat one another with honesty, care, and respect are among the most important lifetime skills we can impart to our children. By creating a respectful, stable, and interdisciplinary learning environment, MSR provides a sense of order, understanding, and respect in an often disordered world. • MSR has a fundamental belief in the giftedness of each child and in his or her eagerness to engage actively in her own education in a carefully-designed academic continuum. The Montessori School of Raleigh provides a well-developed, clearly-defined interdisciplinary curriculum which knows, understands, and responds to the needs of each child in a developmentally appropriate way. Highly structured (There are daily goals and expectations for each child), it is the very structure of each environment at MSR that allows for the intellectual freedom and exploration which characterizes the Montessori classroom.
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