North Avondale Montessori School Fact Sheet
School Type: Public
School District: Cincinnati Public Schools
Program Model / Curriculum Delivery System: Montessori
Teaming Configuration: Our teams are organized by 3-6, 6-9, 9-12 levels and specialists (Art, Music, Media and P.E.)
Instructional Levels: Pre-primary, Primary & Intermediate. There are three grade levels in every classroom. In Montessori education, children are typically categorized by their ages instead of grades.
Classroom Configuration: Multi-age / Multi-grade
Grade / Age Distribution per Instructional Level |
Level 1 (Ages 3-6) |
Level 2 (Ages 6-9) |
Level 3 (Ages 9-12) |
1st year of preschool |
1st grade |
4th grade |
2nd year of preschool |
2nd grade |
5th grade |
Kindergarten |
3rd grade |
6th grade |
Montessori Program Features
Parents
- Extensive parental involvement is required-such as taking children to the library and other places to conduct research needed for the completion of homework projects. Research projects require the production of a product and a report.
- Parents are expected t provide students with instructional supplies needed for the completion of class work and homework.
- Routine daily homework in additional to research projects.
- Homeroom teachers and specialists teachers may give homework.
- Parents are expected to attend meetings and conferences scheduled by teachers.
- Parents are expected to attend Parent Information Evenings to learn about the Montessori Method and materials or other topics of note.
- While the teacher is teaching small groups of students, the other students continue to work quietly.
Teachers
- The teacher is a guide or facilitator to learning but does not dictate or control the learning process.
- Teachers teach students how to use the Montessori classroom materials.
- Teachers observe their students from a distance as the children find solutions to problems. Teachers do not solve problems for the children.
- The teacher is the primary role model for industry, grace and courtesy.
- The teacher works wit the children to establish and sustain a functional classroom community of acceptance, appreciation, harmony and order.
Students
- The child is responsible for his/her own learning.
- Each child is responsible for making a daily work plan and following their plan and completing their work without close supervision.
- Students learn by working with the Montessori materials over and over again.
- Children are responsible for asking for help when they need it.
- Children are expected to complete their work without being told to do so.
- Children work alone sometimes ad work in groups other times.
- Children are expected to help each other learn by giving help when asked by another students.
Other
- District/Montessori/State Standards guide student assessment.
