This is a plea to Parents and Educators, all adults at large Why? Violence is on the increase amongst the young amongst us! We must take responsibility to make things right again! So here is my plea: Let’s start grooming our children to embrace a more ethically positive culture. Let us teach our children to … More Reflections 2021
Age- appropriate activity in the Early Years is a crucial point that always tends to rear its head over and over again. A lady asked a question on one of the groups I belong to: My three years old is learning 2 x table, and her homework is writing 1-150, please I need your contributions … More Age-appropriate activity in the Early Years
Happy World Science Day. We must always make sure our children see the inter-relationships in life and the science in it. Science is important. Science can be described as the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the natural and physical world through observation and experiment. For a child to understand a lot of … More Science is Important
Some people read Dr Maria Montessori Decalogue’s and say, ‘This is too easy!’ But is it really? Each rule says a lot about the heart of what Montessori education is and what it isn’t. A lot of us concentrate on the materials, as administrators providing the didactic materials is a priority, as teachers presenting the … More Dr Maria Montessori’s Decalogue 1
Maria Montessori said: “The duty of the teacher is only to present new things when she knows that a child has exhausted all the possiblilities of those he was using before.” It is important for us to realize that our children need the time to assimilate information even when it is presented to them in … More Maria Montessori Said 1
It has been an incredible long vacation, filled with working tirelessly to bring the Montessori Apparatus training sessions to life after the break caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. We did not hold any trainings in 2020. It has been a great feat not only to to run it in 2021 but to be able to … More Apparatus Training at Addlo Montessori
As a Nigerian living abroad forgive me, but my heart is heavy, both for our nation and for the Nigerian child! Children’s day 2021 is but a few hours past, and I wonder what difference the marking of this day has made for the Nigerian child! I pray that as parents it was a memorable … More Reflections
For so long, it seems that most of us in the world think that knowledge and intelligence are one and the same thing. Education will bring knowledge and knowledge connotes intelligence, right? Those who know better may say: ‘What’s the big deal? We know they are not the same, and if we do and others … More The Road to Intelligence
The Montessori Project Launched last weekend Sunday 14th March 2020 with a WhatsApp session attended by many parents and educators. As Montessori gains ground in Africa and around the world it is important that we as adult can apply the Montessori principles in such a way that it makes a massive effective differnces for tomorrow’s … More The Montessori Family Project
Last week was a big week for our sector as CPE (The Concerned Parents and Educators – a Facebook group of over 220,000 members) held an import dialogue. We spent a good chunk of Thursday 4th March, talking about Preparing Teachers For Education Reform. So many great points were made, from the introduction, keynote address, … More How to prepare teachers for Education Reform
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