GIVE US A TIME
HELP ME, TO DO IT MYSELF
Elementary introduction Maria Montessori's pedagogics in to the Helena Puhar's Primary School
A lot of conscious people ask how to teach or how to prepare a child for changeable future. A key is in the child. Child needs only love, understanding and respectation his developmentary needs and spontanious life-encouragements.
The purpose of M.Montessori s pedagogics:
Specialy prepared environment helps a child evenly emotional, physical and mental development. Motto “ HELP ME, TO DO IT MYSELF” means that we have to encourage a child regarding his personality and interests. We have to teach him how to be independent, how to free choose a key to the knowledgement and to the world.
MARIA MONTESSORI (1870-1952)
She was the first Italian graduated medicine. At her work she had met children with special needs. She had found out that they need pedagogic help mostly. With her access she achived sensational succes, that's why she dedicated allher life to the psychology and pedagogics. She examined closely children's learning and on her basics results developed specific resources for encouragement a child for exploring and discovering himself and the world. She propagated ideas all over the world. She was nominated by Nobel's prize.
M. Montessori's pedagogic is discovered and extended again. They talk about pedagogic for the 3. Millenium.
How we introduce her knowledge to Helena Puhar's Primary School in Kranj?
Resources from everyday's life are on the plates on the shelves in the first part of the classroom, around the funnel with warm water.
Clasped frames, binding, different kind of shaking seeds, cups and scoops;…everithing is made of glass, china… The purpose of the exercise is concetration development, motorics, indipendence, work organisation, correct relation to the matter, to the people and to the environment.
How a child works
The child chooses working place free, most of the time is on the carpet. He chooses resource on the plates for particular activity, he takes it on the working places. When he doesn't want to play any more he tidy-up the plate, exactely on the same place. Somebody else can take the plate now.
Beside that is a resource chest for perception development.
Very good perceptional development is excellent basic for learning and a key to the world. Attractive resources are ordered by colours, large, shape, smell, taste, sound. From outside they build inside.
Next part of the classroom are mathemathics resources . Redly-blue sticks, noumbers made of grinding-paper, golden pearls, geometrical chest…
Composition leads you from concrete to abstract. Child can understand abstract mathemathical ideas only through the concrete resources and his own experiences.
By the window is a special place for language development. Because of the brightness you can read, speak and write:letters are made of grinding-paper, so child can feel them very well, he writes them in to a warm, nice smelly hard maize-mush;and small boards, compound words, stamps…
Choosen books invite us to inspect ilustration, playing different parts…
Formation objects, mandal's composition for relaxation are saved in a small separated baskets. All this thinks teach us how to be nice, kind to the people and to the environment.
A child who had felt strong love
to the environment and alive-being
had found joy and inspiration in his work
give us a hope for human's development
in the new, positive way
Breda Bedina
