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What is the difference between kindergarten at Montessori verses public school?

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What is the difference between kindergarten at Montessori verses public school?

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In public schools, students generally learn information as a unit; the entire class gets the same lesson at the same time. This does not take into account children learning at different rates. Typically, in a traditional environment, the teacher makes most decisions regarding what a child is suppose to learn. Eventually, children loose their internal motivation for self-education. In a Montessori classroom individuals work on a variety of different lessons at any one time. If 20 children are in the room, 20 different lessons can be going on at once. Students receive one on one lessons from the teacher, and classrooms are multi-aged. For a Montessori kindergartener, anywhere from two to three years has already been spent in the Montessori environment engaged in lessons that build upon one another. The last year, the kindergarten year, is when the childs Montessori experience really comes together. As an older child, their mental process moves from concrete thinking into abstraction; it

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