The History Of Montessori Education

In 1907, Maria Montessori founded the first Montessorito aspiring educators.
school in Rome. Its overall purpose was to give four toIn the late 1960s, some parents started to call for the
seven year old children from low-income families apublic schools in their local areas to offer the
full-day educational program.Montessori education model for their elementary
The idea quickly developed and grew in popularity andschool children who had graduated from private
thus more Montessori schools were formed in EuropeMontessori pre-schools.
and India. It did not take long for the school method toThe public's rush of support was given a boost by
cross over to the United States of America.government funds being made available for new
In fact, Montessori's teaching methods created greatMontessori programs starting up in public school areas.
interest in the United States from 1910 through 1920.Today, over one hundred U.S. school districts have
Unfortunately, Montessori's methods seem to besome type of Montessori program.
largely forgotten in the United States until the lateBut just why has Montessori become so popular ?
1950s.Many believe it is due to the program's ability to
It was around that time when a second Montessoriovercome three major problems that the public school
movement started in America. This time, the mainsystems are still faced with. While the public school
focus was on a set of private schools that served ansystem has been put into a state of upheaval, the
almost entirely middle-class population.Montessori school systems have flourished.
The Montessori educational system struggled with it'sUsing their unique teaching methods, Montessori
own success when it started having trouble findingstudents have demonstrated a consistently high level
enough teachers. In fact, it took that teacher shortageof reading comprehension and academic performance.
to start the creation of free-standing privateIn the book "Montessori Parents Guide", we dive
Montessori teacher training centers. Each of thesedeeper into how a Montessori program is powerfully
centers were not associated with any college orunique and sets itself aside from current teaching
university and taught the Montessori teaching methodsmethods.