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Pandemic Strategies: Family Meetings

Pandemic Strategies: Family Meetings

by | Emotionally Healthy Children, Family Resources, Free Reads, MFA, Montessori Education, Montessori Parenting, The International Montessori Council, Tomorrow's Child, Tomorrow's Child Online Issue

During the first weeks of the pandemic, The Montessori Foundation began to hold free zoom meetings for parents struggling with a variety of issues.Here is a short review of the Montessori Parent Gathering from April 4, 2020. The presenter was Lorna McGrath, Director...
Using Technology to Adapt to Enforced Quarantine

Using Technology to Adapt to Enforced Quarantine

by | Communication, Computers in the Classroom, MFA, Montessori Curriculum, Montessori Education, The International Montessori Council

e are entering uncharted territory with the imminent possibility of wide-scale school closures. During this time, it will be more important than ever that the Montessori community fall back on a forward-looking propensity that goes back to Dr. Montessori herself. Even while it was still an emerging technology, Montessori had produced a “moving picture” about […]

Montessori Education in a Time of Physical Distancing

Montessori Education in a Time of Physical Distancing

by | Adolescence, Communication, Computers in the Classroom, Family Resources, MFA, School Resources, The International Montessori Council

Is the Use of Digital Technology Appropriate in the Context of Montessori Philosophy? Maria Montessori, in an address in 1936 entitled “For Peace,” (2007) discussed how the technologies of her day had brought humankind together and had created a single “great nation” (pp. 24-26): By becoming a single nation, we have finally realized the unconscious […]