Roles & Goals: The Montessori Guide
Our society knows teachers. Teachers give information. Teachers provide an education. Teachers instruct.
In a Montessori classroom, however, the role of the adult is rather nuanced. The adult is there to facilitate, suggest, model, and observe. The materials teach. The adults advise.
Those of us accustomed to traditional models of education may find this odd or even worrisome. How can we expect our children to learn if the teachers don’t teach?
