Miss Annie Mead - head teacher
Miss Ardita Bajramaj - teacher assistant
Miss Elisa Isufaj - teacher assistant
Top four reasons to choose International Montessori School of Albania for your child...
1. Child centered learning: Our programs focus on the children not the teacher. Our classrooms are specially prepared to encourage each child to actively participate in his/her learning experience.
2. High quality international staff with extensive experience to meet the individual needs of each child, using the most innovative materials based on Montessori method.
3. Secure learning environment: Our primary consideration is, of course, our children`s safety. Your child will feel secure and comfortable in every class.
4. Innovative facilities: We take pride in our school`s unique design that enhances learning through form and function.
Goal of Montessori Education
The goal of Montessori education is to foster autonomous, competent, responsible, adaptive citizens who are lifelong learners and problem solvers.
Learning occurs in an inquisitive, cooperative and nurturing atmosphere. Students increase their own knowledge through self- and teacher-initiated experiences.
Learning takes place through the senses. Students learn through repeated use of hands-on materials and by interacting with others. These experiences are precursors to the abstract understanding of ideas.
The individual is considered as a whole. Physical, emotional, social, aesthetic, and cognitive needs and interests are inseparable and equally important.
Respect for oneself, others, the environment, and life is necessary to develop a caring attitude toward all people and the planet.
Traditional vs. Montessori
Traditional
Montessori
Textbooks, pencils, worksheet
Prepared kinesthetic materials with incorporated control of error. Specially developed reference materials.
Working and learning without emphasis on social development.
Working and learning matched to the social development of the child.
Narrow, unit driven curriculums
Unified, internationally developed "curriculum"
Block time, period lessons
Integrated subject and learning based on developmental psychology.
Individual subjects
Uninterrupted work cycles
Single graded classroom
Multi-graded classroom
Students passive and quiet in desks
Students active, talking, with periods of spontaneous quiet; freedom of movement
