Teachers
 

As educators, we strive to provide your child with the best environment and learning experience that is possible. However, a child is more than just an academic being. A child has social and emotional sides which are formed in the most important environment there is, the home. Just as you have high expectations for us as educators, we have high expectations for you as parents.
Montessori teachers do more than present curriculum. The secret of any great teacher is helping learners get to the point that their minds and hearts are open and they are ready to learn, where the motivation is not focused on getting good grades but, instead, involves a basic love of learning. As parents know their own children's learning styles and temperaments, teachers, too, develop this sense of each child's uniqueness by developing a relationship over a period of years with the child and his or her parents.

Dr. Montessori believed that teachers should focus on the child as a person, not on the daily lesson plan. Montessori nurtures and inspires the human potential, leading children to ask questions, think for themselves, explore, investigate and discover. Our ultimate objective is to help them to learn how to learn independently, retaining the curiosity, creativity and intelligence with which they were born. Montessori teachers don't simply present lessons; they are facilitators, mentors, coaches and guides.

 Traditional teachers tell us that they "teach students and basic facts and skill that they will need to succeed in the world." Studies show that in many classrooms, as much as 40 percent of the day may be spent on discipline and classroom management. Montessori educators play a very different role.

Wanting to underscore the very different role played by adults in her schools, Dr. Montessori used the title "directress" instead of "teacher." In Italian, the word implies the role of the coordinator or administrator of an office or factory. Today, many Montessori schools prefer to call their teachers "guides." Whatever they're called, Montessori teachers are rarely the center of attention, for this is not their class; it is the "Children's House."

Normally Montessori teachers will not spend much time working with the whole class at once. Their primary role is to prepare and maintain the physical, intellectual, and social/emotional environment within which the children will work.