Our Montessori School Stepping St. Program
Preschool in Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
1243 Whitehill Rd. Church Of The Nazarene
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
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Our Montessori School at Yorktown and Carmel has been offering quality care and education since 1972. We provide programs for infants toddlers nursery and kindergarden-age children as well as an elementary school that goes through the sixth grade.
Our child-to-teacher ratio is excellent and averages six to one. Classes use the Montessori learning materials which are designed to teach concepts in a concrete way then help the child make the leap from the concrete to the abstract. Our primary aim is to preserve the child’s natural curiosity and nourish and encourage the love of learning that is present in each child. Children learn respect for each other and the environment and develop confidence and a “can-do” attitude through many small successes. This facility is authorized to administer over-the-counter topical ointments only
- Child Ages:
- 6 weeks - 12 years
- Licenses & Accreditations:
- New York State Office of Children & Family Services -
- Preschool:
- Yes
- Children per Teacher:
- Infant: 4/1, Toddler: 5/1, Pre k: 6/1, Afterschool: -/-
- Hours of Operation:
- 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM
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Our philosophy is based on the work of the Italian educator Dr. Maria Montessori. Where everyone had always asked “How should we teach?” Montessori asked “How do children Learn?” Her keen ability to observe the learning process resulted in a method of education which is designed to help the child accomplish the task of becoming a person.
Montessori recognized early that different children mature at different rates and are ready for different learning experiences at different times in their lives. To teach children at a level for which they are not yet ready confuses them and creates a sense of failure and incompetence which may haunt them all their lives. To teach them beneath their ability wastes their time and bores them.
Many of the learning materials in Our Montessori School are “self-correcting.” This means that if a child makes a mistake it is not the teacher who points out the error. Rather the material allows the child to find and correct the error. In this way repeated trials are encouraged without a sense of shame or failure.
In a very real sense our children become responsible for their own learning and their own behavior. They learn to respect themselves and others and they develop the inner discipline without which true freedom is not possible.
Everything in our school is designed to encourage and aid the child’s natural curiosity. There is freedom to move about and to join with other children in any of the hundreds of available learning experiences. There is careful daily record-keeping by the teachers to help them give the exact guidance needed at any given time. And there is an almost total absence of time-wasting activities and routines.
We believe that the children’s level of development should determine what they are taught. Only in this way can they realize their full potential with confidence.
