1. Respect for the child.

The child is the protagonist of his learning. The child chooses their own learning activities, according to their interest, level and learning style. It is not intended to create equal children: calm and passive children who spend hours sitting without attractive stimuli that capture their attention, but we accept the uniqueness of the child and enhance their abilities to reach their maximum development.

2. Encourages independence. 

We want our children to one day become functional adults, and yet we spend our days paving the way for them and cleaning up the mess they leave behind. This way we will hardly achieve it. When they begin to communicate and discover the world around them, it is the perfect time to give them their first responsibilities.

3. Multisensory work. 

In the Montessori philosophy, great importance is given to hands. It is said that the hands are the extension of the brain, because through them we perceive the sensations that go directly to our structures. They are like the key to intelligence. That is why all areas are worked on in a sensory way, manipulating and exploring materials.

4. Promotes responsibility.

The child learns to work, he learns a sense of respect for his own work and that of others. You learn the responsibility of taking care of the material you have chosen, you learn the opportunity to use the material freely but within certain limits, you learn that actions have natural consequences that arise from the use of raw materials such as the fragility of glass or the sonority of metal.

5. It is universal. 

The methodology adapts to the child, not the child to the method. Therefore, there are no curricular adaptations, there are no specific classrooms and there are no religion classes because it is a method that covers any ethnicity or belief in its fullness.

6. Takes into account the needs and interests of the child. 

The classroom changes as the child changes. The materials are different, the times are different, and the only clock that keeps time is the child’s. The change of level is requested by the child, not the adult, and occurs at any time during the school year.

7. It is a philosophy of life. 

Educating in Montessori is educating in values, educating in the present for the future. The family is a fundamental part of the process and integrates into the school naturally. The school transmits to parents the values ​​of the philosophy to unite the educational criteria and receive the education of life in coherence.

8. An environment prepared for learning.

This refers to an environment that has been carefully organized for the child, designed to encourage self-learning and growth. It develops social, emotional and intellectual aspects and responds to the needs of order and security. The characteristics of this Prepared Environment allow the child to develop without the constant assistance and supervision of an adult. The design of these environments is based on the principles of simplicity, beauty and order.

9. The materials themselves.

María Montessori developed specific teaching material that constitutes the fundamental axis for the development and implementation of her method. They are designed to capture the child’s curiosity, to guide him by the desire to learn. These teaching materials can be used individually or in groups. Another feature is that almost all of the equipment is self-correcting, so no task can be performed incorrectly without the child realizing it themselves.

10. Create happy, autonomous, critical and respectful children.

Educate in values ​​in responsible education. A child who feels heard, loved, integrated, accepted as he is, is a child capable of expressing his emotions, capable of questioning his thoughts, respecting differences and accepting what unites him to the other. Educating with Montessori is educating for happiness. Is there perhaps a more important goal in life than being happy?