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
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
I just listened to a great sermon on Transgenerational Leadership… It spoke to me on so many levels… Remember the story of Job..the sufferings, the questions and answers? Elihu the youngest spoke last… Why? Because the oldest are supposed the know better be wiser. Are they really? Job 32:9 Great men are not always wise, … More Train Up your child the right way
A few weeks ago I got a few new Montessori 3 part cards sent to my inbox remember I mentioned this in my last post. This has turned out to be a wonderful idea factory for me. I started off with looking at the Tree of Life. The Baobab Tree, which lives for thousands of … More Teach Our Children about their country
The Baobab tree Montessori printables I received a few days ago reminded me of one special day… A couple of years ago, when I lived in Nigeria for a while, I remember a conversation I had with my Pastor Rev. Dele Salahu while he was driving us to church one morning for the Women’s IWPC … More About the Baobab Tree
I was going to write about Safeguarding but something really profound came up this morning I just had to share. I don’t know about you, but just about everything in the educational system in Nigeria and a lot of the other parts of the world for that matter, is broken and needs a complete overhaul. … More An Education System That Delivers
Last weekend I gave a short session at the MNR Academy (Montessori Nigeria Resources) on WhatsApp. I would like to share it with you here as well. In this session we will be having a family talk. I will be the Mama and you will be my family members.I am concerned that some of us … More Getting to where you want to go in 2021
