"Montessori is a greatly hands-on approach to learning. It encourages children to develop their observation skills by doing many types of activities. These activities include use of the five senses, kinetic movement, spatial refinement, small and gross motor skill coordination, and concrete knowledge that leads to later abstraction."--Wikipedia
Next week I start my new job working as an assistant teacher for a Montessori preschool. I am so excited about this job and all the amazing things I can learn from it. If you haven't heard of the Montessori method before, research it! It is an amazing approach to teaching, where children take part in self-directed learning.
"It is critically important for the teacher to be an "observer" of the child instead of a lecturer. This observation of the child interacting with his or her environment is the basis for the continuing presentation of new material and avenues of learning. Presentation of subsequent exercises for skill development and information accumulation are based on the teacher's observation that the child has mastered the current exercise(s)."
Anyway, I am eager to learn all that I can from this job in order to prepare myself for Pickle. I think my time working there will help show me new methods of teaching and parenting I have never seen before. Just from what I have observed in the classrooms there, this is going to be a god-send of a lesson! How perfect is the timing too?! If the timing goes right, I will be finishing up a full year before I'll be giving birth to Pickle, so I can use that year to really study and practice the Montessori method. Not to mention, almost every teacher there has their kid enrolled in the school. Most of them worked during pregnancy, went on maternity leave, and then came back to work with their baby! This is fantastic because, not only could I be close to Pickle and take care of him/her, but I could enroll them in one the best preschool/daycare out there!
In summary: I really think this new job is going to do wonders for preparing me for parenthood, not to mention open up options for work and daycare after my baby is born. I never did like the idea of placing my child in daycare. I wanted to spend those important early years establishing a strong bond with my babies. But now seeing that there can be a healthy mix of working and still being with my babies!....It's fantastic! So there you have it; Pickle preschool and the Montessori method.
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