Montessori Training in Delhi : Need for Gearing Up

by Kaira Kapoor MBD Group

First come across to the education may leave an immense impact on a student, and could be of high significance in deciding the penchant of a child towards education. It is necessary that students get an education in a way that could stimulate interest in learning. In India education for children starts with pre-primary teaching. Prepared by Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori, Montessori Training is a child-centric based on profound research by Maria. The research is differentiated by having an emphasis on independence, freedom within limits, and respect for a child’s natural psychological, physical, and social development. To take the efforts to the next level, MBD Disha is providing the Montessori training in Delhi for teachers.

The essence of Montessori Training in Delhi:

The culture of mixed-age classrooms where children ages 3 to 6 years old form a class under trained Montessori teacher.
Students chose activities from a prescribed catalog of options. A list is prepared with intelligence, reasoning augmenting activities.
Realistic approach of education that includes the use of constructivist or "discovery" model, where concepts are learned from working of models rather than by direct instruction.
Freedom of movement within the classroom.

The Montessori training in Delhi is prepared by completely following the educational reforms of the country and strictly advocates teacher training workshop together with qualitative parameters of education. Targeting to shift teaching from traditionally tiresome and theoretical manner to the innovated and child-centric learning practices, the Montessori training in Delhi is classified and evolved for the children as the below-mentioned way:

Infant and toddler program: Children under the age three are given Montessori classrooms with names "Nido" and “Young Child Community”. Former serves small class size of children ages two months to fourteen months whereas later takes into account comparatively larger class size of children from one year to 3 years old.
Pre-Primary and kindergarten: Mixed aged classrooms of Pre-primary and kindergarten serves 20 to 30 children and monitored by one trained teacher and an assistant. A proper activity area is created and child-sized tables and chairs are arranged throughout the room.
Primary Teacher program: Class size is comparatively larger than the former kindergarten classes and taken by children from age 6 to 9 years in one group and 9 to 12 years. This classroom is provided with lessons with wider scopes and enriched content. Prepare students who are creative, numerate, literate, well trained and readily retainable at any point on their development, following objectives of curriculum reforms. Classrooms are prepared with material and projects and lessons about different subjects like Mathematics, Science, History, and English.

Teacher training workshop and skill development training provided beside the Montessori education and it is competent enough to prepare teachers for a technologically-advanced society, ensuring that all students who leave school in the twenty-first century have sufficient knowledge of skills and a favorable attitude towards the use of technology in education. Further, it is made sure that all students get the necessity of being able to live and work coordinately with other persons in their environment.