Creative Montessori Learning Center
Preschool in Lombard, IL 60148
550 S Edgewood Ave
Lombard, IL 60148
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The Montessori approach to early childhood education is based on the method of seeing children as they really are and of creating environments which foster the fulfillment of their highest potential – spiritual, emotional, physical, and intellectual.
Montessori practice is always up-to-date and dynamic because observation and the meeting of needs is continual and specific for each child. When physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional needs are met, children glow with excitement and a drive to play and work with enthusiasm, to learn, and to create. They exhibit a desire to teach, help, and care for others and for their environment.
Dr. Maria Montessori based her method of teaching upon the spontaneous interest of children in learning. This gives each child the freedom and opportunity to explore the self-learning environment and find the circumstances which are most appropriate to his/her own particular stage of development. The Montessori classroom is thus centered on the activity of the child, not that of the teacher.
- Child Ages:
- 2 years - 6 years
- Rates:
- $$$
- Preschool:
- Yes
- Hours of Operation:
- 07:00 - 18:00
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The basic idea underlying Montessori philosophy of education is that unseen within every child is the person the child will become. Dr. Maria Montessori, an Italian physician who developed this Method of teaching, recognized that only valid impulse to learn is the self-motivation of the child. The teacher prepares the environment, programs the activity, functions as the reference person and custodian and offers the child stimulations; It is the child who learns and is motivated through the work itself. If the Montessori child is free to learn, it is because the child has acquired an `inner discipline’ from exposure to both physical and mental order. This is the core of Montessori philosophy.
The basic idea underlying Montessori philosophy of education is that unseen within every child is the person the child will become. Dr. Maria Montessori, an Italian physician who developed this Method of teaching, recognized that only valid impulse to learn is the self-motivation of the child. The teacher prepares the environment, programs the activity, functions as the reference person and custodian and offers the child stimulations; It is the child who learns and is motivated through the work itself. If the Montessori child is free to learn, it is because the child has acquired an `inner discipline’ from exposure to both physical and mental order. This is the core of Montessori philosophy.
