Montessori vs. Traditional

Traditional

  • Emphasis on Rote Learning and Social Behavior

  • Teacher acts as primary enforcer of discipline

  • Mainly group instruction

  • Same age groups

  • Teaching is done by teacher, collaboration is discouraged

  • Curriculum structured for child

  • Child is guided to concepts by teacher

  • Child generally allotted specific time for work

  • Instruction pace set by group

  • Errors in child’s work highlighted by teacher

  • Learning is reinforced externally by repetition, rewards and punishment

  • Child usually assigned seat; required to participate during group lessons

  • No organized program for self-care instruction – left primarily up to parents

 Montessori

  • Emphasis on Cognitive and Social Development

  • Environment and method encourage self-discipline

  • Mainly individual instruction

  • Mixed age groups

  • Grouping encourages children to teach and collaborate

  • Child chooses own work

  • Child discovers own concepts from self-teaching materials

  • Child is allocated time to work on and complete lesson

  • Child sets own learning pace

  • Child spots own errors from feedback of material

  • Child reinforces own learning by repetition of work and internal feelings of success

  • Child can work where he chooses move about and talk at will (yet not disturb work of others), group work voluntary

  • Multi-sensory materials for physical exploration organizes program for learning care of self and environment

Book a Tour

We invite prospective parents to come by Baldwin Oaks Academy to tour our facility and meet our staff.  We offer tours on Monday – Thursday between the times of 9:00 a.m.-11 a.m.  This will give you an opportunity to observe all classrooms actively engaged in the Montessori curriculum, from Toddler to Primary.