Community Montessori
Preschool in Tacoma, WA 98405
We provide a safe, nurturing, developmentally appropriate, and educationally oriented program with a Montessori curriculum supplemented by other proven methods within a prepared environment which promotes each child’s intellectual, communication, physical, social, and emotional development from twelve months through twelve years, all day, year round.
Our staff has the dedication, education, and experience to model the value of education, hard-work, orderliness, and self-discipline. Teachers with these traits are able to include the children in the daily routines of the classroom environment.
Every teacher without a Bachelor of Arts or Science degree is enrolled in school.
The director has a Master In Teaching degree and a Washington State Teaching Certificate.
One teacher has a Master in Arts in History and a Washington State Teaching Certificate.
Two teachers have two A.A. degrees; one in Liberal Arts and a second in Early Childhood Education.
One has completed and one is nearly finished with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Human Development through Washington State University.
One teacher has an A.A. in Liberal Arts and is working toward a degree in mathematics at the University of Washington.
- Child Ages:
- 1 year - 12 years
- Licenses & Accreditations:
- Washington State Department of Early Learning
- Preschool:
- Yes
- Hours of Operation:
- Monday - Friday, 7:00am to 5:30pm
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Our curriculum is part of the Washington State continuum linking early care developmental benchmarks to later success in school.
As every child is unique, we take best practices from research, (especially brain research) and proven programs, High/Scope (Perry Preschool), and Carolina Abecedarian Project, as well as the National Association for the Education of Young Children Accreditation Standards, and the Washington State Early Learning and Development Benchmarks, as supplements to the Montessori philosophy which creates a community of learners who are independent, self-confident, self-disciplined, curious, creative and effective communicators.
Everything we do ideally goes at the pace of the children. This may take longer, be less efficient, and less thorough than when adults do things, but it essential for the children.
No adult activity should take precedence over a child’s concentrated work experience or positive interaction with other children.
Our program will increase the child’s success later in school and in life by instilling a love of learning, the ability to concentrate, make good decisions, control impulses, value work, and have appropriate social behaviors as well as learning academic skills.
The children of parents with low levels of education benefit most from this quality program.
