Saturday, May 20, 2017

Proud moment for MU team...

It is a proud moment for Montessorians United team. Our amazing founder Munira Akhtar has become one of the board members of the prestigious team of Florida International Montessori Alliance, FIMA.

 She has joined as accreditation officer in this professional organisation.
To know more about FIMA, click the link below:

 She has already partnered and designed 'Montessori online program' with Kido Enterprises, Bangalore.
 To know more about KMU, click the link  
Montessori Online Program


Montessorians United team is working hard to spread awareness about Dr Maria Montessori Methods so that their efforts bring holistic education to preschool children.


  

Friday, May 12, 2017

5 days Face to Face sessions for Online students!

After 10 beautiful interactive 'Ask the Expert' sessions it was time to meet our dear students face to face. 

All Montessorians understand that practical training is such a essential part of the Online course. In the five days of 'face to face' sessions MU included all the following topics with the preset and well planned curriculum.


Day 1
Introduction to Philosophy, Geography and Botany

Day 2

Presentations on Exercises of practical life and Sensorial

Day 3

Introduction to Language material in Montessori Method and presentations for the same

Day 4

Introduction to Arithmetic in Montessori method and presentations for the same

Day 5

  1. Workshop on general fitness for children and teachers.
  2. Quality Circle time.
  3. Identification and Remedial tips for specific learning difficulties.
 And above all MU introduced sustainable projects for learning how to practice with materials under supervision during the first four days.



Friday, March 24, 2017

Our Amazing Online Students


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Montessorians United is running their online batches successfully since the time of its soft launch............but today was a special day because MU experts felt overwhelmed when they heard introductions of these students. We are picking up a few stories from this batch.

Today Montessorians United started its one more batch of online program. It was a wonderful group of mixed age students, consisting of those who love children and want to explore Dr. Maria Montessori's philosophy of working with children.

Today's session was very special because one student had the courage to open a Montessori house of children at the age of 52 after having a wonderful career in counselling and physiotherapy in past. Now she is perusing what she always wanted to do.

We have a mother with us whose focus is to give her two children wonderful upbringing with the help of Dr. Maria Montessori's Methods.

Two of them are already teaching in preschools. Both of them want to understand their students in a much more profound way so, they have chosen our basic certification course to fulfil their dreams.

Another student who is highly passionate about sensitive periods of children felt awesome after joining our first Ask the Expert session. She is the owner of a preschool and they are extending a Montessori arm in their preschool. She found our course extremely beneficial.

Our Expert Munira Akhtar and Rabia Kausar did orientation session for new joiners and answered their queries beautifully. This was an amazing and very interactive session. Although we were not able to see each other but after spending 10 minutes everybody felt all are sitting next to each other.


 Like we all say Every 'child is unique', in the same way for 'MU' every 'student is unique'. It is wonderful to learn how and why these students are opting for our basic certification program. 



Sunday, February 26, 2017

Be a Montessorian Parent!

Online Montessori Basic certification www.montessoritraining.in

Be a Montessorian Parent
Parents are the only responsible contact who can nurture and choose the way of education for a child. Whatever parents decide today is going to have an impact on their child’s academic & social life throughout his childhood and future endeavours. Today, in our smart world it is difficult to choose the right method of education for a child. Montessorians United suggests choosing Dr. Maria Montessori’s methods of learning. Even Parents can learn to “be a Montessorian parent”. It will help them to understand their child and his learning environment. It is a profound, scientific and detailed companion to child psychology.

How can learning Montessori methods make a difference to a parent and their child’s life?

1.    By learning the ‘why’s’ and ‘how’s’, a parent can find the right path to understand child psychology.

2. The Dr. Maria Montessori Method is a constructive path for parenting.

3.  Parents will understand how they can be supportive in his daily life.

4.  Parents will feel involved in their child’s world.

5.  Montessori Methods teach, guide and change attitude towards young lives.

6.  Parents will know and develop certain ways to maintain just the right order at home.

7.  A Parent can understand the value of working independently and not to help them unnecessarily.

8. Since the child acquires his knowledge through senses (seeing, listening, touching and tasting), a simple nature walk help sometimes. Learn how?

9. Learn how a child will follow indirect learning and how the parents have to 'follow the child'.

10.Parents would understand why the ‘reward method’ and 'raising voice' does not work on a long term basis.

11.The most amazing fact is that Dr. Maria Montessori’s ways of child psychology are not only for preschool or elementary. They are forever.










Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Today in Ankur Montessori, Bangalore. Children are so excited because their teacher told that they have a story telling session planned for them. Our team member Rehmat entered in the Montessori house of children, every child is so inquisitive that what kind of story it will be?  When Rehmat started narrating her story to them. Children were engrossed so deeply that there was no time to gossip 😊. 

Now it came to an end but this new story introduced so many new words in their vocabulary and correct pronunciation..........

Thursday, December 15, 2016

 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.



Tuesday, December 6, 2016

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