Maria Montessori was a woman who was born in Italy. She was also the first female in Italy that the people considered a physician. Marie had a liking for childrens diseases as well as people who were hard to educate. These people were also known as "ineducable."
She then developed a teaching program that helped students who were confused with reading and writing to read and write. Her methods were different than a usual school. Instead of making children read and write constantly she made excersises for the students to perform.
I really agree with Maria Montessori's method of teaching. She was big on independence for children. She let them judge their own progress and she let them teach themselves how to do certain things. Her excersises really made children realize that if they keep at something that eventually they will succeed in understanding it.
She realized that before teaching a child, you must first understand how a child works. A child better understands something that is hands on. If you give children reading or writing excersises that are run, chances are your children will learn and have fun at the same time. They probably won't even realize that they're learning. Many of Montessori's students chose to work over play because they were playing while they were working.
I really agree with Montessori's way of teaching. As you already know, I work with children almost everyday and my kids need to see something to really understand it. They're doing MCAS right about now and we do many hands on activities with mathematics for the fourth graders. We use posters, pictures, figures and pretty much anything that can be hands on instead of repeatedly doing the skill over and over again. Sometimes, activity can really help in making a child succeed.
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