What really happens inside a Montessori classroom? How teachers teach? How do children learn? This fascinating day-by-day record of a year in the life of a Montessori classroom answers these questions by providing an illuminating glimpse of the Montessori method in action.
"Takes the Montessori method and places it on the cutting edge of learning and teaching. This is a must-read book for...educators."--Curman L. Gaines, Superintendent, Saint Paul Public Schools
"Every teacher wishing to take a practical and philosophical look at Montessori teaching should read this book of first-hand experience and reflection."--David Kahn, Executive Director, North American Montessoi Teachers' Association
PAULA POLK LILLARD is the head emerita and cofounder of the Forest Bluff School in Lake Bluff, Illinois. She is also the author of Montessori Today; Montessori, A Modern Approach, and Montessori from the Start (with Lynn Lillard Jessen).
What really happens inside a Montessori classroom? How teachers teach? How do children learn? This fascinating day-by-day record of a year in the life of a Montessori classroom answers these questions by providing an illuminating glimpse of the Montessori method in action.
"Takes the Montessori method and places it on the cutting edge of learning and teaching. This is a must-read book for...educators."--Curman L. Gaines, Superintendent, Saint Paul Public Schools
"Every teacher wishing to take a practical and philosophical look at Montessori teaching should read this book of first-hand experience and reflection."--David Kahn, Executive Director, North American Montessoi Teachers' Association
Author
PAULA POLK LILLARD is the head emerita and cofounder of the Forest Bluff School in Lake Bluff, Illinois. She is also the author of Montessori Today; Montessori, A Modern Approach, and Montessori from the Start (with Lynn Lillard Jessen).