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Learn more about Montessori Education?

I get asked this often: “where do I start to learn more about Montessori method?”

IMHO, books are good start. In my enthusiasm to introduce people to this wonderful way of raising children, I used to loan out a couple of books that I have never seen them again. In the midst of busyness, I could not even remember who I have loaned them to.:-)

BTW, these are some good starter books, some are quite easy read.

(1) How To Raise An Amazing Child the Montessori Way, by Tim Seldin

(2) Montessori from the Start: The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three, by Paula Polk Lillard

If you are the type that need a lot of evidents and proofs before you embrace something.

(4) Montessori: The Science behind the Genius, by Angeline Stoll Lillard would be good for you to find out how recent researches agreed with what Montessori discovered 100 years ago. If you noticed the similarity in the last name: Angeline Lillard is daughter of Paula Lillard mentioned above, she is a Montessori child and a professor in education herself.

And, if you would like to know how to apply Montessori at home without have to go through all the jargons. These two books are very practical.

(5)Basic Montessori: Learning Activities For Under-Fives, by David Gettman

(6)Teaching Montessori in the Home: Pre-School Years: The Pre-School Years (Teaching Montessori in the Home), by Elizabeth Hainstock

Of course, there are books written by Maria Montessori herself, though not always easy to read, provide the first hand information about the method and the philosophy.

(7)The Absorbent Mind

(8)Secret of Childhood

(9)The Montessori Method

(10)Discovery of the Child

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