Theory - Table of Contents

Theory Album Tables of Contents: 

doing a puzzle without a frame
(tessellations, that is the point;
Montessori details without the "big picture"
 - not so much)

Primary:

• Education as an Aid to Life
• History of the Method
• Human Needs and Tendencies
• Four Planes of Development
• The Absorbent Mind
• Sensitive Periods
• The Prepared Environment
• Development of Movement
• Development of Language
• Observation
• Normalization and Deviations
• Preparation of the Adult
• Independence
• Freedom and Discipline
• Three Levels of Obedience
• Social Development
• Errors and Corrections

Elementary:

• Construction of the Human Being and the Human Tendencies
• An Overview of the Four Planes of Development
• The First Plane of Development:  The Child from Birth to Three Years of Age (The First Subplane)
•  The First Plane of Development:  The Child from Three to Six Years of Age (The Second Subplane)
•  The Second Plane of Development:  The Child from Six to Twelve Years
• The Third Plane of Development:  The Young Person from Twelve to Eighteen Years
• Cosmic Education
• Imagination
• The “Great Lessons” and the Key Lessons
• “Going Out”
• Practicalities of “Going Out”
• The Upper Elementary Class (Nine to Twelve Years), adapted from a lecture by Miss Margaret Stephenson
• Freedom and Responsibility
• Recordkeeping
• Parent Education
• Running an Elementary Class
• Planning the First Three Days