Montessori Good Shepherd Center
Center Services
Montessori Hybrid Homeschooling
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Ages 3 - 6
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Homeschooling with Montessori Tuesday thru Thursday
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Be part of your child’s education, part of an educational community
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Can work part time
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Guided home activities on Monday and Friday
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All inclusive – training, lesson planning and record keeping provided
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Extensive lending library of children’s books
Montessori at Home
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A guided learning program using the Montessori method and materials.
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Includes step-by-step guidance, training, material rental and any needed support to be successful.
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Tailored to your child's needs.
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Simple, easy to use tracking and recording.
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Extensive lending library of children’s books.
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Many DIY materials available.
Learning Differences Tutoring
SEE is designed to teach language to children with Dyslexia and or ADHD. I will be SEE certified (Sequential English Education) through the Shelton school in Dallas, Tx. July 2022.
From the Shelton website:
“SEE is an International Multi-sensory Structured Language Education Council (IMSLEC) accredited and International Dyslexia Association (IDA) accredited course utilizing structured, multisensory language instruction, based on the Sequential English Education approach for teaching reading/ writing/comprehension/spelling and auditory discrimination and memory. In addition, for those who teach in a Montessori classroom, SEE blends easily into the Montessori methods.”
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Available as needed:
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Normal schedule 4-5 days per week
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Or once per/week with parent tutoring at home
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Beneficial for all students- very comprehensive and complete
Tutoring: Math and Language
Montessori hands-on materials are valuable in helping fill gaps or overcome stumbling blocks in your child's grasp of abstract concepts.
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Tailored to your child’s needs
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Uses hands-on Montessori materials
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Available at your home or the Center
1st Hand Science Club
Students to explore the world under their feet and all around their home, backyard and everywhere they go! Hands on multi-age.
Make special specimen cards and document their findings with the help of hand loupes.
Students learn the Scientific Investigation Process.
Use as a comprehensive science curriculum for all ages with additional research lead by you and your child’s interest or as a supplement to your current program.
This can help give your child big picture of the God's Creation by integrating Science, Art, History, Geography and Language.
Foundations of Science Class
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Students discover how thing work themselves by thinking and observing.
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Students will research great scientists and share their reports as part of class discussion
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Combines history, geography and science by exploring how science developed from Aristotle’s Fire, Air, Water, Earth to the atomic theory of matter and the Periodic Table.
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Provides a great foundation for Geology, Physics, Chemistry and Biology.
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Students will build a timeline of scientific progress
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Weekly 1-2hr classes at the Center or on Zoom
Lab work done at the Center or at home
Commentary on Current Science Education:
“Now, which of these two “styles” or approaches to science is more interesting? Which will result in longer-lasting, more useful, and more satisfying “knowledge”? The authoritarian approach simply asserts conclusions, with no evidence, and usually no charisma. What I try to do is to take children by the hand, by the mental hand so to speak, and help them learn to observe and think about the world that they see. When I teach science, it is not my goal to enable students to recite facts and figures. It is my goal to enable them to recognize the world, to be familiar with it, to be at home in it. For those things that need explanation in a child’s mind, I want them to understand why we believe what we believe, rather than simply telling them the “answer.” I do not see myself as an authoritarian trying to copy my knowledge into other heads. I see myself as a tour guide to the world.”
by John Krieger, VanDamme Academy: