Meeting with Mrs Chandrika, School councillor of The Sharanalaya Montessori School ICSE school in Chennai, India https://www.sharanalayaschool.com In the child-meant environment, in which furniture made of only natural wood hosts learning materials which are both functionally and aesthetically stored. The distribution of the furniture in the rooms leaves a lot…
How do we perceive and measure abilities, skills, intelligence?How is the functioning of the sensorial channels and their connection among one another related to what we call intelligence? Is intelligence a function or a real inner state of the human being?Are the sensorial channels responsible only for the conveying of…
Many children with specific learning disorders show traits of concentration disorders with or without hyperactivity, sometimes depressive traits. The contact with nature zests the body and the mind and at the same time gives calmness, concentration. Nature has beauty and power, it’s real, it’s life to be breathed and touched. The contact with…
In Drama, we are actively involved and put into work all our senses and thefaculties related to them and this at progressively deeper levels. That’s why we can speak of internalisation, that’s to say acquiring at a real personal level the experience of what we hear, listen, say, see, smell, taste, feel, think,…
How do we perceive and measure abilities, skills, intelligence? How is the functioning of the sensorial channels and their connection among one another related to what we call intelligence? Is intelligence a function or a real inner state of the human being? Are the sensorial channels responsible only for the…
Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (SAICE) in Pondicherry, India, strives to evolve a system of integral education in an environment that inspires children to develop the five essential aspects of personality: the physical, the vital, the mental, the psychic, and the spiritual. The Centre encourages its students to choose…
Maria Montessori devoted all her life to the development of learning materials and teaching methods. Montessori materials are sensory-based learning tools that are designed to isolate one skill or concept. The materials encourage hands-on learning, independent problem solving, and analytical thinking. Especially unique, is that each Montessori material is designed…
I discovered the Montessori pedagogy in 2015. I was working in a vocational school (in German Hauptschule). I noticed how many pupils had specific learning disorders in that school. Many of them had an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD (in German ADHS) combined with dyslexia (in German Legasthenie or LRS)…
In una società sempre più complessa anche la scuola e, in generale, tutte le offerte educative si devono confrontare con esigenze variegate in modo flessibile. Se ne è parlato lo scorso 21 febbraio a Staranzano in occasione della presentazione del progetto “School of Peace Fvg”, a cui hanno partecipato la…