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Study Montessori at AUT University
Montessori courses at AUT University’s School of Education qualify students in a child-centred alternative educational method in use in a number of early childhood centres and primary schools throughout New Zealand.
Under the Montessori approach, children learn to take responsibility for their own learning with guidance from the teacher who provides educational materials and activities geared to the child’s needs.
Montessori Early Childhood Teaching
The child learns through active sensory exploration and problem solving; leading to concentration, practical independence, and self and social awareness. Children learn together in groups with a three year age span.
The curriculum is aided by a series of materials which aid sensory perception using size, shape, volume, colour, pattern, odour, sound and texture. Later materials help the children in discoveries relating to mathematics, language and literacy, art, music, science, and social studies.
Montessori Primary Teaching
While in early childhood the focus was on learning through materials, at primary school age this extends to an abstract understanding of concepts. Learning ranges across the whole of human knowledge, and children turn towards the intellectual and moral aspects of life. The teacher’s role is to continue to act as a guide and commentator.
Children ideally make many school trips, deepening their knowledge and stirring new interests. Through these, children build comprehension of the inter-relationships of the material world and human culture.
The primary specialty takes the whole cosmos as its curriculum and uses narrative, based in fact but imaginatively and creatively presented, to paint a broad introductory picture before taking a trans- and multi- disciplinary approach to studying the detail.