Holla peeps. Sorry for the late updates, but I have been indeed very busy. So what's going on? Nothing much actually. Tomorrow Charlene is heading to Singapore for her Supervisory Training with Olivia *yaiks*. Five days of no Pig..Grr...
On the side note, my assignments are finally up and running (except for my marketing). I haven't been having the mood to actually study until two days ago. It is weird how I need a push to get myself back on track. What happened two days ago? Well, two days ago, I attended a talk called
An Hour with Mr Lee Havis regarding on Charlene's course, which is Montessori. I love the talks that her college department in SEGi college, Subang Jaya organizes. Their talk are always very much beneficial. I somehow can NEVER find those in HELP University College. I love these talks, it boost me to keep going on and to continue what I am doing.
What? What is
Montessori? I am not surprised if you have no idea what Montessori is. Well, here I am going to tell you what is Montessori is all about.
Montessori - The word was originated from
Dr. Maria Montessori, founder of Montessori Philosophy. Montessori aims on studying as well as to help the development of an individual from birth to maturity within the background of his/her life-situations. Montessori is a sort of early childhood education, but the method used by Montessori practitioners are different from an early childhood teacher. You will be amazed by how different is different if I were to explain to you one by one.
Anyways, Montessori states that
"A child's work is to create the person she/he will become". Montessori practitioners believes that a child should be given the freedom to use their inborn powers to develop physically, intellectually, and spiritually. Every child is born with a talent, and those talent
can be found and implied into their own lives with proper guidance. Most people in the world today stresses on academics, and because of that, the child's initial goal to find their own inner talent has gone. They were left with no choice but to score good with their grades and have no other room for anything else. Montessori is very much against with
just academics.
A child's mind works wonders. It is also very much young and fresh, which therefore able to learn a lot. But if we were to restrict them from a lot, they will not have a chance to explore what are their inner talent and need for life. A child is capable of doing a lot. They want to learn every single thing they see and touch if possible. We should never restrict their option, but to keep it open and let them explore to see which is best suite them. We, in fact,
do not know what a child is capable of doing. I know most parents ended up deciding for their child(ren) because they think their child(ren) do not know how to choose for themselves. On the contrary to that,
a child do know how to think for themselves. We should never underestimate them.
In short, Montessori is a
study or a method to help a child develop their inner talent so the child can become what they want to become. Different from most pre-school, Montessori allows the child to roam about the classroom with very limited condition, if possible, none. As long as the child knows the basic rules and regulation such as, putting the materials back in place once it is used. A child should not restricted but to be given the freedom to explore, and with that, I am done with my blog today.
haha. have a good night everyone.
Computing Word Report : Week 7
Marketing Quiz 2 : Monday (8/6)
Midterm Examination : Week 8 (approx. 3 weeks from now)
signing off
p.s. : i need to start burning the songs and videos for pig to bring to olivia.
