Learn by Doing, Understand by Experimenting
Montessori pedagogy helps children develop their thinking, confidence, and autonomy through experimentation.
The child becomes an active participant in their learning
The environment, materials, and the role of the guide are designed to allow the child to choose, concentrate, repeat, and progress.
Freedom is not the absence of boundaries: it allows the child to develop within a prepared environment.
Six Principles at the Heart of the Pedagogy
The Prepared Environment
An ordered, beautiful, accessible environment adapted to the child's age.
Framed Free Choice
The child chooses their activity within a clear and consistent framework.
Manipulation
Understand first with the hands before moving to abstraction.
Concentration
Work cycles long enough to complete an effort.
Self-Correction
The materials help the child identify and correct their errors.
Cooperation
Mixed-age groups foster mutual aid and responsibility.
Accompany without doing for them
The guide observes, presents the materials, and intervenes precisely to support autonomy.
Understand needs and sensitive periods.
Show a gesture or material at the right moment.
Respect the time needed for experimentation.
Value the process rather than performance.
Make concepts visible and manipulable
The materials isolate a difficulty, progress from concrete to abstract, and allow the child to self-check their work.
Refine perception and organize impressions.
Build vocabulary, writing, and reading skills.
Manipulate quantities before symbols.
Explore living things, history, geography, and sciences.
