A Montessori Education:

• Prepares students to be life-long learners
• Develops the whole student

And is:

• Interdisciplinary
• Focused on the Student
• Hands-on; allowing for problem solving
• Instrumental in developing self-confidence and leadership skills
• Collaborative; student to student, student to teacher, teacher to student
• Academically rich and challenging

According to the American Montessori Society, the goals of Montessori education are:

• To stimulate the student’s innate love of learning
• To provide a nurturing, cooperative learning environment
• To incorporate all the senses in the learning experience
• To consider the whole student: “The physical, emotional, social, aesthetic, spiritual, and cognitive needs and interests are inseparable and equally important.”
• To encourage respect for self, others, the environment, and all life