4 of April: MONTESSORI SCHOOL

 

Today we were supposed to continue (or even finished) the expositions about our guiding programs. However, on the previous class we had a talk with the personal and managers of a Montessori school and it took almost all the time of the class of EG&TA. In this session, they explained us their beliefs (theories that they used as a background), methodology and they even did a demonstration with a role-play using their material.

I had mixed feelings about this talk: in one hand, I really liked their methodology and the material they used to innovate the explanation of some topics (like multiplications) and I think they use new methodologies that can be used as well in other school. However, this material is not cheap and can be affordable for only a few people (it is not fair), and, another think that I did not like is related to this class and something that EG&TA teacher said as well: they have talked a lot about didactics, methodologies, and in general, academical stuff, but they have not mentioned at all tutorial action or their perspective upon tutoring, which I consider is a really important factor.

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