Montessori has been in China for decades. There are many institutions, products, and courses in the name of Montessori. However, the development situation is extremely uneven. Although some staunch followers have emerged, most of them are lively. It subsided after a while. The result of following the trend without asking for a deeper understanding is that the society has different opinions on Montessori. Among them, there are many misunderstandings and misunderstandings, which must be explained here to put things in perspective.

One of the misunderstandings: Thinking that Montessori is a course

Many people think that Montessori is a special course like music, pottery, and creativity. This is a misunderstanding. . Montessori is not a course, it is a system, a complete education and teaching system, which is not at the same level as the concept of curriculum. It can be called together with systems such as Waldorf, multiple intelligences, and the five major fields. An education and teaching system includes both systematic theory and specific practical methods, such as courses and activities.

A Montessori school, in addition to the specific teaching content in the living area, sensory area, mathematics area, language area, and science and culture area, includes children’s daily life, eating, drinking, and diarrhea. Teachers and children should What is the relationship? The operation of classes and schools are all guided by Montessori ideas. Montessori’s core concepts are used as the main thread to connect all courses and activities, such as flea markets, independent nights, and fitness runs. Festival, emphasizing independent and autonomous activities, this is a true Montessori school.

Therefore, we cannot say that this hour is a Montessori class, and after class it is nothing else. This concept is wrong.

(Many kindergartens follow whatever is popular. Today they do Latin dance, tomorrow they do abacus and mental arithmetic, and the day after tomorrow they start shooting basketball. They are always catching up, but they never catch up. Why? Because they don’t have their own backbone. Just like what we see What makes a beaded bracelet valuable? What makes it a valuable and eye-catching beaded necklace on your wrist? We need to think about it carefully. Have you established your own main line in kindergarten for ten years? If not, the beads will still be scattered, as if you already have a lot of them. beads, but their value is still limited. This is a common problem in many kindergartens.

Why is Boyuan in a state of transcendence in various places, surpassing the local kindergartens that have been running for so long? Is it because it caught up from behind? There is the main thread. First, you need to find the beads. When stringing the beads, do you need any kind of beads? Should they be red or blue? Wooden beads? What shape? A good bead chain must have an idea and a thread to make the scattered beads have greater value. It is valuable, which is the same as the reason why we run kindergartens.

With the main line, those scattered and inconspicuous small modules can become a great work of art, and Montessori, This is the main line of Boyuan education and teaching. Any courses and activities that are in line with Montessori concepts, consistent with independent learning, and encourage children to explore independently should be actively studied and integrated; anything that goes against this should be determined no matter how fancy it is. No.

In this way, it will be very clear. For example, during lunch time, should the teacher serve the children, instruct the children to wait quietly with their hands behind their backs, and bend down to hand out bowls and chopsticks to them, serve them with food, and serve them with soup? , and then responsible for cleaning up, the children are like customers in a restaurant, sitting upright and not allowed to speak. Does this scene comply with Montessori philosophy? Obviously, this is not consistent, so the training teacher must change it resolutely. It doesn’t tell us how lunch should be organized. Once we grasp the main thread of Montessori, we can understand how a lunch should be organized. This is the power of having the main thread, which allows us to avoid copying cats and tigers.

For another example, in order to train children's hand-eye coordination ability, we spend money to buy teaching aids, participate in training, teach in the Montessori living area, and set up catching tasks, scooping tasks, etc.

But in fact, hand-eye coordination work occurs every minute in the daily life of a class and family. Three meals a day, daily cleaning, and housework are all hand-eye coordination work. So, should this opportunity be given to children? The answer is also yes.

With the main line, we will know how to do every detail. If we just learn every detail, we will not be able to finish it. Even fifteen days of round-the-clock training will not be enough. over. However, if we master the main thread, we don’t have to spend so long. Even if the lecturer doesn’t teach us, we can figure it out on our own.

Why are some people so efficient? Because I am willing to think things through from the beginning and try to clarify the main line from the beginning. For example, when I shoot a short video by myself, I first figure out what I want. If it is a video showing running, the music and camera rhythm should be more cheerful. I will follow this idea to find the camera, about twenty or thirty. Minutes, it can be shot in one go, instead of spending three days post-processing from piles of videos.

So establishing the main line is the way to make you most efficient and your kindergarten most efficient. Without a main line and no ideas, just immersing ourselves in work will make us very hard. I hope that more principals and teachers will find the main line of their own education and teaching, so that the curriculum has a backbone. This is much more important than being proficient in using teaching aids and improving class skills. )