Why Montessori
Heba Torad 
Why montessori
Why Montessori
Every time a Montessori word is mentioned the most common question is why Montessori? What is so unique about Montessori? How can it give us different results?
In this blog, we are going to discuss The Montessori mindset. How this mindset affects the students and in turn, it is a life thinking way for all Montessorians starting from the students and teachers and ending with the leader, managers, and finally mentors.
Not only this, but we will also show how this mindset usually extends to a business approach.
Tim Selden (President of the American Montessori Foundation and president of the International Montessori Council) once said that most of the Montessori schools he had seen, were founded by mothers who want to find good education ways for their children.
We brought you one of these stories of success in this video:
This interview was during the Global Montessori Conference 2021, between Dr. Heba Torad (Director of the Genius Center for Training and Curriculum Development, International Montessori coach and certified coach for parents) and Sharon Caldwell (Advisor to develop Montessori schools in South Africa) who started her Montessori journey as a mother who seeks a good school for her son and then developed to open her Montessori school until now she became an advisor to develop other Montessori schools.
As Sharon Mentioned in her interview that she was a high school teacher. Even though she experienced some time with the Montessori teaching strategy with her son, she keeps looking for a Montessori school to enroll her son for grade one. The important question here is why didn’t she just let him join the regular schools that she teaches already at?
This is the key to answering our blog title Why Montessori?
- Once you deal with Montessori you will recognize what you have missed in your learning journey, you will feel sorry involuntary for the time you have spent practicing topics and applying formulas that you have no idea where they came from!!!
- Next step you will imagine what probably could happen if your kids got the chance to learn this way.
- The magic will happen when one of your kids goes to a Montessori school and you got the chance to see by yourself the different outputs achieved by your son because of Montessori.
- At this moment you are captured by the effect of the Montessori mindset and you are convinced that Montessori is the shortcut to a better future in the whole world, if we could apply it in a wide range as you have realized the benefits of Montessori education as mentioned below.
The idea now is strong enough, supported by real experience and strong evidence. Moreover, you are enforced by priceless values such as the world needs more Montessorians, every child deserves to learn according to his strengths, kids must not get judged by their IQ, The creative people could be the low achievers at schools, and so on.
The BIG challenge:
After being one of the big fans of Montessori, you are recommending it to your friends, and you want to support institutes that provide the Montessori way of teaching you will collide with a big obstacle that you have never expected:
There are not enough Montessori preschools and much fewer if we mentioned elementary and higher stages school it is almost none in some countries, especially in the middle east. What a big obstacle!
Obstacle or Chance?
Does having much fewer Montessori schools than needed should be considered a problem? Or as a chance?
Businessmen do know that providing a solution for an existing problem is the key to gaining MONEY. So, when a businessman intends to sell a new product or service, he must target a problem that shall be solved by his product or service.
In our case, highlighting the problem that prevents Montessori from spreading worldwide until now is considered a golden chance for business leaders to seize the opportunity and invest in profitable Montessori projects.
Montessori as a business:
- What makes Montessori business a profitable project?
- Although Montessori is existing for more than 15o years ago, in many countries (for example most of the Middle East countries) the Montessori field is a competition-free market. So, any investment leader will enjoy being the 1st option on the line
- The high demands from parents to find a replacement for the regular education system according to the numerous problems which they or their kids must deal with it inside and outside the classroom (will discuss these problems in another blog in detail).
- The lifestyle nowadays which relies on electronic devices makes it so hard for kids to keep learning in the same systematic way we have learned with. Montessori provide a solution for this and made learning FUN!
- Despite that Montessori is a high-cost educational system, it is not hard at all to apply it according to your available budget as it depends on 3 main factors represented in the Montessori pyramid that doesn’t include a high budget.
- Once you are in the Montessori cycle and surrounded by a team of Montessorians, you will find yourself automatically thinking in a Montessori way. This way of thinking will lead you to achieve the impossible. This spirit will let you guide all people in your interaction area to believe you, follow you, and take you as their mentor. Being a Montessori Mentor is another business field in Montessori that provide LOTS OF MONEY as profits from experience.
Categories: : Montessori Education
