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Montessori Parent Education
Parent Education Classes are scheduled throughout the school year and help share information about our school, the Montessori method and materials. Parents will receive a notice regarding Parent Education Nights via email, the Parent Forum and “notes to home”.
Homework for Parents
- Read and become familiar with your Montessori & Me Parent Handbook.
- Attend Parenting Education Nights.
- Attend Parent Conferences and Board Meetings when held.
- If you have a concern, schedule an appointment to meet with a Teacher or the Directress.
- Be involved! Volunteer where you can, and when you can! Every family has the ability to create and support a positive growth in the children. Our goal this year is 100% participation.
- Do not expect your teachers to have time for you at drop off or pick-up - they are working! If you need to speak to a teacher, please schedule a time after classes end.
- Schedule at least one classroom observation.
- Bring your child to school on time
- Form a partnership with the Montessori & Me teaching staff. Support and show respect for your child’s teachers.
- Don’t compare your child’s abilities with other children. Each child develops and grows at his/her own pace.
- Read at least one book on the Montessori method in your lifetime
“Nature inspires both parents with love for their little ones, and this love is not something artificial…the love we find in infancy shows what kind of love should reign ideally in the grown up world. A love able, of it’s own nature to inspire; to sacrifice the dedication of one ego to another ego, of one’s self to the service of others. In the depth of this love, parents renounce their own lives and dedicate them to their children, and this devotion is natural to them. It gives them joy and does not feel sacrificial…the efforts parents make for their children are a part of parenthood itself. The child awakens what adults think of as an ideal; the ideal of renunciation, of unselfishness, virtues almost unreachable outside family life.”
- Maria Montessori
