Well, while we do not have a multi aged classroom of 30-60
children with 4-8 trained Montessori teachers, we can modify
Maria Montessori’s method of education for our home. What we’re
doing together is NOT “The Montessori Method”. Maria made it
clear that each Children’s House was to have a complete set of
equipment and set up in such a way that, if you moved about from
school to school, you couldn’t find any substantial difference,
with either the physical room or the teaching staff. If her
Method was to be held up as a ‘scientifically provable’ method
of education, then each room needed to be almost like a ‘science
experiment’, repeatable and identical in every detail possible.
We are not able to replicate her model here. We can modify the
main principles to suit our continuing journey with learning
though. We do this because we LOVE Montessori… it just ‘fits’
well with how we behave and how we relate to each other, our
family and friends, and to the learning process. So we have some
guiding principles from