“High school Montessori tends to be more like college. You have choices. Brain development is such that they start reasoning. ... Usually, if you can get them interested, they go further. You want them to make connections." I always wonder, what about what they don't want to study?(Math, Chemistry, Physics, etc.)
This article discusses the multi-age classroom and the independence of the individual student that comes with the Montessori philosophy. Students get to decide what interests them and get to explore into that topic. All the Montessori schools in Omaha are private and annual tuition is $4,000. One discouraging aspect of this article was how there was no discussion of attempting to make Montessori available to everyone in the form of a charter school. They discussed how they inteneded for the education program to grow, but there was no evidence of them 'giving it away'.
No comments:
Post a Comment