Role Of
Montessori Directress
A
Montessori teacher or directress is the most important person for a child in a
school. She is a counselor, a facilitator and a guide. All the learning for a
child are due to the teacher’s faithfulness towards her duties. A teacher must
not act as if the knowledge flows through her /him. She must think and act like
a co-operative artist taking in view the activity learner’s mind. The
activities are not for her.
It is good
general observation that students are not encouraged to comprehend or explore
the lessons themselves. They are going to prepared material to cram to pass the
exams. Mostly the students are not equipped to find their own solutions. In
Montessori methodology the directress, the child and the prepared environment
are like three sides of a triangle. The directress is the guardian of the
prepared environment, with an understanding of invaluable nature and immense
responsibility. She is responsible for facilitation and provision of
appropriate learning environment.
She is the
soul of the environment to which she brings the child in contact. The main task
of the teacher is to help the child in adopting the environment and make him
feel comfortable. She must bring forth the skills and qualities of a child are
essential for his overall environment. Once he attains these qualities he
becomes a world-force.
Generally,
a teacher is found delivering a lecture in schools to a group of students. But
a Montessori teacher’s role is quite different. She prepares the appropriate
learning materials to meet the needs and interests of each child in the class
they work with one or two children at a time, advising, presenting a new
lesson, or making an observation. The learning is for the children and not for
the teachers. Every child is a distinct individual due to their various
interest, progress, growth and preferred learning style.
The most
important quality of the directress in to have faith in the child, in herself
as well as the methods she must be preferred as following;
1)Intellectual preparation,
2)Spiritual preparation,
3)psychic and physical preparation,
The chief characteristics of a
Montessori teacher are as following;
1)To prepare the environment.
2)Passive role playing.
3)Profound respect for the dignity of the child.
She must
have a deep sense of individuality of every child as a human being. In order to
become dynamic link between the child and the prepared environment ,she must
have the following qualities;
a)Knowledge (b)Patience (c)Observation (d)Sympathy
and love for the child (e)Clarity in her work.
The science
of being a Montessori teacher consists of knowing in advance about the
sensitive development periods of a child. A directress must undergo a threefold
preparation program before coming in contact with the child.
1)Intellectual preparation; The teacher
must know her work right-out and must keep in touch with the environment. She
should know what is happening around the world. She must have
sufficient
knowledge of science, geography, mathematics, history, music ,art work etc. She
should be tactful with all the children according to their potentials of work
with all children as long as needed. She should have patience as some children
take to grasp the instructions. However, there must be no favoritism or
preference in the prepared environment. Children should be kept at par with
each other. The directress must analyze her own presentations and she must work
accordingly. The art of teaching in the prepared environment is divided between
the directress and the material.
Dr.Montessori sums up the
position of directress by saying;
“Teach the child not by correcting but by
directing his energies
Towards the purposeful end.”
2)Spiritual Preparation:
Spiritual preparation consists of the environment and the
directress within herself using her intellect and psychic qualities. She must
study the following;
1)The general
functions of the prepared environment.
2)The nature
and purpose of every piece of the Montessori material in her environment.
3)The ages of
the children to whom the material correspond and sharpen their senses hold
great values for their enlightenment.
4)She should
never condemn any child because of her/his weaknesses.
3)Psychic and physical presentation: She
should attract the child towards herself. She should be attractive and pleasant
in her appearance. She should be tidy and clean, fresh, well-dressed,
dignified, calm and happy person. She should be full of knowledge, very
passionate and complete symbol of the education to the child. Since the
normalized child is very happy, cheerful with healthy mind, so he/she always
response to cheerfulness. She must be in harmony with all means. She should
avoid touching the child unnecessarily as they are sensitive and do not like it.If a child need personal
attention than she should not deny it. She must study her own defects,
weaknesses and try to correct them.
Dr.Montessori says,
“First remove the beam from your own eyes,
then you will
See clearly how to remove the speak from the
child’s eye,”
She should
purify her own heart and render it burning with love, kindness and
understanding towards the children. She should be humble, poetic and gentle in
behavior. She must talk logically and should be careful about her language. Her
accent should be correct and her voice must be appealing and soft. Her
movements should be coordinated. She should have full faith in the system,
herself and the child. She must understand the delicate achievements of the
children. She should serve children as if she is serving the spirit and the
soul which has to unfold itself into a force.
Observation: She must observe the progress of every child
carefully. She must take care of all their needs in their growing up needs and
progress. Instead of keeping a track of all these developments she must act
like an active link between children and the prepared environment. This place
is for constant experimentation and modification of environment to meet the needs,
interests and notifying the result for the child.
Lessons: The lessons are brief and the goal is to bring the
children in a state of mind, so that they will come back on their own for
further work with the materials. The lessons should be simple and they should
work on their own. She should,
a) observe
the child when he explores the material.
b) going to
the child to know his consent about working with the material.
c)taking the
material to the work place with the help of the child.
d)setting up
rules for the material handling.
e)going a
short and live demonstration of what is to be done.
f)leaving the
child on his own to work.
The
presentation by the teachers is precise. Demonstration is an initial
exploratory procedure; encouraging the children to continue to explore on their
own further. The children should become self-disciplined. Maximum
interruption by the adults should be
done. The children progress with their own pace. They gradually proceed in each
learning step. Initially the lessons give a brief introduction, after
repetition over many days, weeks or months mastery is attained. Interest leads
them to explore variations and extend the inherited within the designs of the
materials at many levels over the coming years.
Primary aims: Each child be taken as a person not on the daily
lesson plans. They must be nurture and inspire. They should lead a child to
questioning and let the think themselves, explore, investigate and discover.
The ultimate objective is to help them to learn how to learn independently,
retaining the curiosity, creativity and intelligence with which they are born.
Montessori teachers do not simply present lessons, they facilitate, coach and
guide.
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