Montessori

Education is the cornerstone of our lives, having a good preparation from early stages of our life, abilities and skills will be forged for our well-being. An educator must pursuit the ability tolove and respect the child as a person and be sensitive to their needs.
Maria Montessori taught a new attitude and a new way of looking at children. The Montessori Method is based on scientificobservations related to children's ability to absorb knowledge around it, and the interest they had for materials that could manipulate. Each piece of equipment, every exercise, every part of the methoddeveloped was based on what she observed that children were "naturally," by themselves, without help from adults. Montessori was not only to develop a new way of teaching, but to discover life and helpthe child reach their potential as human beings. Seek to develop this potential through the senses, in a prepared environment and using scientific observation of a trained teacher. (Wentworth)
Beenmore than six decades after the Montessori Method was implemented in several countries around the world, including the United States; in order to keep pace with modernity and globalization it wasimportant to implement new strategies that captivate children’s attention and encouraged them through the learning process. Thus, technology has been one of many different approaches that modernity hasbrought “Technology requires you to teach differently. I no longer view myself as a teacher, but rather as a facilitator” (Birnbaum). And being a facilitator is exactly what Montessori’s Method is allabout, providing students with tools that enhanced their ability to connect themselves to the world and learn from their own experiences.
Taking into account the fundamental principles on Montessori’sPedagogy: autonomy, independence, initiative, the ability to choose, the development of will and self-discipline, it is vital to understand how these principles evolved in education and how...