5 Reasons Families Choose Our Montessori School Instead of Public School
Explore common concerns many parents have with public school and discover how Montessori Learning Center offers a different approach to early childhood and elementary education.
1. School Safety, Bullying & Emotional Well-Being
We provide a positive learning environment that nurtures both knowing and respecting each child. Teachers and children daily incorporate responsibility, independence, cooperation, socialization, and respect. Classroom processes inspire contributions by each child to develop social and emotional skills while building individual confidence; but also a "team environment" where the student who gets selected to give an answer has positive support and cheering from the other students (instead of competition and jealousy).
2. Academic Quality, Progress & Individual Attention
Every child learns differently, so meaningful progress requires monitoring the individual child's strengths and areas for growth. "Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic" are the top priority of focus. Group instruction with hands-on Montessori materials, and academic approaches including Orton-Gillingham/Spalding, Wordly Wise, and concrete-to-abstract mathematics, gives each child the learning flexibility and progress opportunity they need to build strong academic foundations.
3. Each Child Works at Their Own Pace
Each child has what we call "a personal transition point" in their learning; Trained Montessori educators seek to assist each child to find that "point where they are learning, while mitigating the point where they are defeated." Children work with lessons appropriate to their level of readiness (whatever their age), revisit concepts that require additional practice, and take on new challenges as their skills develop. Rather than expecting every child to follow exactly the same path, children develop at their own pace.
4. Social, Emotional & Life Skills
Social and emotional development is an integrated into the daily education experiences. As stated in #1 above: Each child develops social and emotional skills while building individual confidence as they get to actively participate every day in providing answers and presentations; but classes require a "team environment" where the student who gets selected to give an answer has positive support and cheering from the other students (instead of competition and jealousy).  Alongside academics, children have opportunities to develop practical everyday life skills, leadership, classroom assisting, public speaking, and thought organization skills that they can carry with them far beyond the classroom.
5. Classroom Behavior, Discipline & Learning Environment
Children thrive when they have both freedom and structure. Recess time has fun and freedom, but adult supervision is consistent so competitions & conflicting events can be talked over with realization regarding choices of responsibility, respect for others, and care for the feelings of classmates. Children learn that their choices and behavior affect the people around them. Our Montessori is an environment where children thrive with free energy, but also develop self-discipline, awareness, accountability, and responsibility for their actions.