Montessori & 21st Century Skills
Try to imagine what the world will look like 20 years from now. What sorts of jobs are going to be available? What skills will be needed? We know these keep changing! That is the world that we are preparing our children for today. This is why the Montessori approach is so important in the fast-changing, modern world.
Why do we need 21st Century Skills:
Preparing Children Today for the World of Tomorrow
A Montessori environment allows children to construct themselves as adaptable, educated, responsible, independent, and conscientious adults. The approach pushes each child to become self-disciplined, flexible, creative, and motivated: have built the skills they need to influence positive change in whatever they choose as their life’s work from entrepreneur to musician.
How? By training the child’s executive functions, which are the brain functions which control goal-related behaviours which are the predictors of success in efforts.
The goal of the Montessori method of education is to allow children to construct themselves as adaptable, educated, responsible, independent, and conscientious adults.
Montessori Magic! Students investigate sources of waste at IMS and turn that into a composting project and a recycled paper-making business.
Montessori Magic! Students investigate sources of waste at IMS and turn that into a composting project and a recycled paper-making business.
Follow your passion! One student shares how his love for swimming led him to start a charity for children who don’t have the swim gear they need to participate in swimming.
IMS children surprise others with their professionalism! Upper Elementary students work with the Jane Goodall Institute to create a community map for the Stanley area. “I have taught this programme to many local and international schools… This is what we dreamt that Community Mapping could be… IMS kids have gone above and beyond our expectations.”
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