MU conducted a practical orientation program at Millat preschool, Mangalore. Munira Akhtar is a devoted montessorian who gives more than 100% in her orientation sessions. This is a 40 hours orientation program run by MU. In these extremely beneficial sessions we engage face to face with our students. These are very interactive and very productive for students.

How to understand child's behavior!

Start treating behavior as a symptom instead of simply as a problem

We focus on behavior too much in schools. It’s understandable. It’s observable, quantifiable, and impacts lives. But the inordinate attention, and attempts to manage it with rules and consequences not only often doesn’t help, but makes matters worse.

The whole mindset behind behavioral management is a set up. We can’t and never do manage others behaviors. The best we can do is manage our own in a way that encourages them to manage theirs. By believing we can and should control student behavior, we actually invite students to adopt mistaken goals like power and control and try to prove to us we can’t, often by cutting off their noses to spite their faces. To which we too often simply double down on our efforts to control them, and they double down on theirs to prove we can’t.

Behavior is the tip of the iceberg. 90% of an iceberg is below the surface. Likewise, there is so much going on beneath the surface in students’ minds. It’s their thoughts about themselves, others, life, what’s happened to them and is now that’s key. Thoughts cause feelings, attitude is always the father of behavior, and a person’s behavior will follow their emotions toward their life events.

Consequences do not address the thoughts and feelings that give rise to behavior. In fact, they often interplay with them in ways that exacerbate them instead, leading to a worsening of the behavior we didn’t like in the first place. If a student has the hot thought “You can do that to me” and we do things to him, he doesn’t acquiesce and think “I guess you can”. He doubles down on his original thought, gets angrier, and behaves even worse.

Behavior is a symptom. It’s a symptom of thoughts and feelings students need help with. We need to be like doctors who strive to identify the underlying causes of a patient’s symptoms, and address those. What would we think of a doctor who prescribed the same treatment for every patient, and simply prescribed more when it didn’t work? 

                                                                                                               Written by
                                                                    Ray Mathis

                                                                               https://www.linkedin.com/in/ray-mathis-a8a61a10

It was a wonderful morning in MILLAT preschool, Mangalore on 3rd December 2016.  This morning Millet school was full of parents and educators. More than 40 adults participated in this practical orientation. 

MU organised a workshop for Parents and Teachers about Circle time to make it more interactive for children. This workshop conducted by our Waldrof Pedagogy expert and ECE consultant Ms. Malini Rao.  Our founder Munira Akhtar accompanied her in this special work shop. Malini Rao displayed "hands on activities" and "Creative play" for Circle time. Malini Rao is the Principal of Chimply Fun  preschool in Bangalore and holds a great passion for Early childhood Education.

Practical workshop organised on Creative thinking and Correct expression!!

workshop organised on Creative thinking and Correct expression!

Montessorians United's creative and energetic member Rehmat Merchant teamed up with Mrs. Munira Akhtar and held a workshop on 26th October 2016 at US KIDS International Preschool, Kerala.

Workshop's main objective was to train teachers on language part for future creative activities.

For example we have covered;

1. How to build vocabulary of the child through activities?
2. How interactive story reading techniques helps a child to build vocabulary and sentence formation?
3. How correct expression makes it easy to communicate?

http://www.uskids.in/

This was a practical workshop with lots of creative ideas. As we all are aware that in Early childhood education building vocabulary and sentence formation is most important part of language. It was fun filled and full of activities for teachers to replicate the same for children in future.

 

Dr.Maria Montessori philosophy awareness workshop!

Dr. Maria Montessori Method awareness Program

Recently Mrs. Munira Akhtar completed another workshop on Montessori Philosophy and Methods. MU partnered with Vishwajyothi Montessori school Siruguppa, Bellary. Vishwajyothi teachers participated and learned thru this workshop about Maria Montessori methods in depth. Q & A session has been done. 

Vishwajyothi Montessori school Siruguppa, Bellary

Discussion held on practical aspects of Montessori

Recently Munira Akhtar presented a fresh approach and her view on Dr. Maria Montessori teachings at ILM Montessori Bangalore. Some more known Montessorians from Bangalore joined her in this initiative.

. This session attended by parents and educators from different schools. I was great to see more and more people wants to understand this philosophy...................

New beginning to Dr. Maria Montessori methods of preschool education!

Montessorians united team members are happy to launch our Dr. Maria Montessori online program from today. This is a new beginning in era of technology to bring Dr. Maria Montessori philosophy at your door step. We have developed a course with utmost care for the child and his requirements.