Education is a “preparation for

life”

Children learn more by “actual doing”

Executive Director of North American Montessori Teachers' Association

A Leading implementer of Montessori adolescent projects.

1996: Montessori and Optimal Experience

Research: Toward building a comprehensive Education

Reform

2005: NAMTA Montessori School Salary Survey

An Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies at the University of Utah. His research is focused on adolescent development in the family.

2001: Montessori Education and Optimal

Experience: A framework for New Research

2003: A comparison of Montessori and traditional middle schools:

Motivation, Quality of Experience and

Social Context

“Flow” or “optimal experience” is a mental state of operation in which a person in an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity.

It is a positive psychology concept which has been widely referenced across a variety of fields.

Montessori adolescents were able to pay “undivided interest” in whatever they do. This is a combination of playfulness and seriousness correspond to the balance between freedom and discipline. The Montessori adolescents have a deep and satisfying community life which increases as they live.

The Montessori economy is expanding both tuition fees and salaried. Professional development is limited

Montessori schools provide a real-life laboratory for practicing, developing and observing the experiential principles in action.

Montessori approach is relevant at this time.

Optimal experience theory and Montessori education share the attribute that neither one represents mainstream thinking in the fields of human development and education.

Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia

Evaluating the social and academic impact of Montessori education.

Preschool Children’s Development in Classic Montessori, Supplemented Montessori and Conventional Programs

The research was concluded that except for Picture Vocabulary, Classic Montessori Children scored higher and showed significantly larger gains

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S Rekha Reddy Vidyanjali Montessori Training Institute

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