Practical Life Curriculum
Practical Life is a huge part of a Montessori classroom, for our students it is a time where we see interest in making things with an end product in mind. Practical Life activities foster responsibility and independence, it is also teaching students to plan and follow through is an important part of growing up to be responsible person.
Meaning and Purpose of Practical Life
The purpose and aim of Practical Life is to help the child gain control in the coordination of his/her movement, and help the child to gain independence and adapt to his/her society. It is therefore important to “Teach teaching, not correcting” (Montessori) in order to allow the child to be a fully functional member in his/her own society. Practical Life Exercises also aid the growth and development of the child’s intellect and concentration and will in turn also help the child develop an orderly way of thinking.
Characteristics of Practical Life
Because Practical Life Exercises are meant to resemble everyday activities, all materials be familiar, real, breakable, and functional. The materials will be related to the child’s time and culture.
In the environment, the teacher may have color code the materials as well as arrange the materials based on difficulties in order to facilitate the classification and arrangements of the work by the children.
The attractiveness is also of utmost importance as Montessori believed that the child must be offered what is most beautiful and pleasing to the eye so as to help the child enter into a “more refined and subtle world”.
Meaning and Purpose of Practical Life
The purpose and aim of Practical Life is to help the child gain control in the coordination of his/her movement, and help the child to gain independence and adapt to his/her society. It is therefore important to “Teach teaching, not correcting” (Montessori) in order to allow the child to be a fully functional member in his/her own society. Practical Life Exercises also aid the growth and development of the child’s intellect and concentration and will in turn also help the child develop an orderly way of thinking.
Characteristics of Practical Life
Because Practical Life Exercises are meant to resemble everyday activities, all materials be familiar, real, breakable, and functional. The materials will be related to the child’s time and culture.
In the environment, the teacher may have color code the materials as well as arrange the materials based on difficulties in order to facilitate the classification and arrangements of the work by the children.
The attractiveness is also of utmost importance as Montessori believed that the child must be offered what is most beautiful and pleasing to the eye so as to help the child enter into a “more refined and subtle world”.