Montessori Cultural Education – Exploring the World

This course introduces children of Early Years to the Cultural Subjects using the Montessori Method of Education.

This Course presents to the teacher Cosmic Education, which is intended to engage the total personality of the child in an exploration of the Story of Life which includes man, animals, plants and the planet Earth. Cosmic Education incorporates cultural subjects: Geography, History, Botany, Zoology, Science, Music and Arts. These subjects feed the imagination of Children and their understanding of the world during a time when they are most sensitive to them.

There are two internal weapons that have been given to the child to aid him in his exploration of the world and the things around him; the Absorbent Mind and Sensitive Periods. These sensitivities enable the child to acquire certain skills such as language, discrimination of sensory stimuli and mental modeling through contact with the environment. The Teacher is the dynamic link between the Child and the Environment. This course offers teachers and care-givers numerous activities that can used to spark the curiosity of the child towards exploration of his world and to understand it.

The course is loaded with video presentations showing step by step procedures of how to present cultural subjects to children in the early years in an exciting and age appropriate way.