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What this course offers
This will be the fourteenth cohort of this very popular course, which seems to meet a real need for many elementary guides... It will run for 8 weeks starting January 11th, 2022. You will have ongoing access after the course is done.
There is no one time when you must be online live. The work will unfold week-by-week. Optional discussions will be offered a few times during the course.
Many elementary Montessori guides find the instructional process to be intimidating, even baffling. The curriculum seems daunting and intellectually challenging, even for the adult. The guide finds him or herself caught between a variety of challenges:
Should I follow each child’s interests? How should I group the children? What about the widely different ability levels? What about choice? I just can’t get it all done! Too little time!
Too often, guides are exhausted and frustrated by what can seem like an impossible task: covering the entire elementary scope. There are some reasons for that.
The guide may:
- be simply attempting too few or too many lessons.
- be offering too much detail.
- be caught up in a drive for mastery.
- be lacking clear guidelines and expectations.
- be teaching reactively rather than proactively.
- be teaching as though it is a Children’s House, presenting to one child at a time.
- have poor, inadequate, or no lesson planning.
- be caught up in overly detailed records.
The Results?
The results can be devastating for teachers, and by extension, for schools. Extreme cases may well lead to burnout or leaving the profession. Some teachers proclaim that Montessori simply will not work with this age or with “these children.” Some guides split children in ways that do not guarantee offering every child the whole curriculum. Others resort to non-Montessori instructional aids, such as card-based directives (task cards), worksheets, work plans, workbooks, or textbooks.
Does this describe you or a colleague? Are there some parts of it that apply to you?
The good news is that there are some solutions, many of which will work. You can teach successfully, offering elementary Montessori children the whole curriculum. Of course, implementing these solutions will require some changes in how you operate in the classroom.
In this course, I will lead you through eight steps that can be taken to allow you to teach it all successfully. This will be an overview.
In brief, these are the eight steps that can transform your teaching practice to successfully teaching the entire curriculum.
- A curriculum plan
- Weekly lesson plans
- Designated Days
- The Great Period
- One lesson per group, per subject, per week.
- Open Lesson Policy
- Focus Groups in the Afternoon
- Guided Discovery
Join me. This course may make all the difference in your work as an elementary Montessori teacher/guide
Instructor(s)
Instructor Bio:
Course curriculum
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01
Welcome Wagon
Show Content- Welcome to the Course
- Online Netiquette to review
- Hello for Welcome Wagon
- Remember that this course runs from January 11, 2022 through March 15, 2022.
- Planned Schedule for Cohort Fourteen
- Discussion: Getting Started
- All About Zoom Sessions Cohort 14
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02
Preliminary Work
Show Content- Video: Introduction to the Course
- Ten Essential Montessori Principles (Plus One!)
- Tim Seldin
- Rose Dorer
- A letter from Michael about the workbook
- Teach it All Workbook
- Discussion Forum: Let's Talk
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03
Module 1
Show Content- Video: The Challenge and the Opportunity
- Horizontal Curriculum Webinar
- Webcast Montessori Curriculum Part 1
- Article: Can You Teach it All?
- A Conversation With Rose Dorer About Teachers' Challenges
- Discussion: The Challenge and the Opportunity
- New Montessori Vocabulary Teach It All
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04
Module 2
Show Content- Video: Eight Steps to Managing the Elementary Curriculum
- Webcast Montessori Curriculum Part 2 Michael Dorer
- Kindergarten Expectations PDF
- Curriculum from Dissertation on Montessori PDF
- Sample One Year Curriculum: Arithmetic
- Sample One Year Curriculum: History
- Rose Dorer - The importance of the Great Period
- Discussion: A Planned Curriculum
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05
Module 3
Show Content- Video: Lesson Organization
- Video: Open Lesson Policy
- Webcast Montessori Curriculum Part 3 Michael Dorer
- Organizing Montessori Instruction PDF
- Sample 5X5 Filled Out
- Rose Dorer - Curriculum Equity
- Discussion: Open Lessons
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Module 4
Show Content- Video: Lesson Planning
- Video: Follow Up
- Lesson Plan Outline
- Follow Up PDF
- Elementary Lesson Plans Blank PDF (Just an example)
- Elementary Lesson Plans Filled Out
- Discussion: Follow-Up Work
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Module 5
Show Content- Video: Setting Priorities
- Video: Guided Discovery
- Webcast Managing the Elementary Curriculum Part 1
- PDF Kinds of Elementary Lessons
- A Conversation With Dr. Robin Howe
- Discussion: Guided Discovery
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08
Module 6
Show Content- Video: Focused Learning Groups
- Webcast Managing the Elementary Curriculum Part 2
- PDF Get in Focus
- Image: Lesson Strategy
- Giving Good Lessons
- Discussion: Focus Groups
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09
Module 7
Show Content- Video: How to End a Lesson
- Video: The Flow of the Class - CORA
- Webcast Managing the Elementary Curriculum Part 3
- Rose Dorer Discusses CORA
- A Conversation with Shanna Honan
- Discussion CORA
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Module 8
Show Content- Video: Wrapping Up
- Inspiration
- Webcast: Managing the Elementary Curriculum review
- PowerPoint (PDF): Ten Essential Montessori Principles (Plus One!)
- Audio: Goals of the Elementary Program Talk
- Goals of the Elementary Program PDF
- A Conversation with Tim Seldin
- Discussion: The Course Concludes
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Zoom Recording
Show Content- Teach it All Meeting 1 08_28_2021