Observation Confirmed
Montessori always stressed the importance of teachers being close observers of their charges, As in so many areas, she was a pioneer and her emphasis has been taken up by the Reggio Emilia and Te Whariki approaches, among others, and somewhat belatedly also by the UK Early Years Foundation Stage documents. This impo
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New MAEL Publication
MAEL has just issued a further volume in the series of instructional modules for the 6-12 primary curriculum. The book is titled Mathematics 3 and, as well as extending the maths coverage to KS2, it covers many topics which are more advanced than those in the UK National Curriculum (e.g. number bases and extracting s
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Animals, Parents and Children’s Learning
Some scientific research is carried out on animals, usually where the procedures would be illegal or potentially dangerous if applied to humans. Obviously this raises very serious ethical issues, but there are also questions as to how far animal studies can be applied to human beings. However, some animal studies â
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Montessori & Computers
 Sometimes educational research hits the headlines. Last November one piece even made the whole of the front page of one tabloid (Lambert, 2016). The broadcasting watchdog, Ofcom, had just produced their annual report (232 pages of it!) on parent’s and children’s use of media. For three and four year-olds th
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Rewards – when will they ever learn?
Montessorians don’t always agree about everything but one of the many things we are all agreed on is that rewards don’t work. Back in the Summer of 2011, my regular column in Montessori International ‘Research Watch’ featured some research, mainly from the USA, in the field of healthcare which reflect
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