{"id":11863,"date":"2015-08-15T21:02:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T21:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/in-a-montessori-classroom-there-are-many-children\/"},"modified":"2015-08-15T21:02:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T21:02:37","slug":"in-a-montessori-classroom-there-are-many-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/in-a-montessori-classroom-there-are-many-children\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In a Montessori classroom there are many children, but only one of each material, shared by everyone.\u00a0<br \/>\nEach child has the freedom to work with a material they\u2019ve had a lesson on for as long as they like.\u00a0<br \/>\nNo one can take it from them or share it with them while they\u2019re using it.<br \/>\nOnly when they\u2019ve finished and put it back on the shelf is it available for someone else.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisslark.com\/2013\/11\/montessori-monday-sharing.html\">SWISS LARK: Montessori Monday: Sharing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t go to a Montessori school, but I do have plenty of memories of being forced to share, which is not a good way to establish good feelings around sharing. But maybe you don\u2019t need to have good feelings all the time. But now I spend a lot of time thinking about sharing, credit and attribution, and I am curious about how to make myself and everyone else feel good around those issues.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/dinosaurparty.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">dinosaurparty<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>My children attended Montessori. What we witnessed as an outcome of this approach with our kids was a self-respect for their work time and a respect for the work time of others. We, as parents, learned to respect the children when they told us they were not yet finished and that they were working. I intepret this today as lessons in focus and reverie.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I understand your rumination on sharing and am trying to recall how and when that came into the mix. There was an intnese focus on the communal environment. There was early attention to the self-awareness (some might say self-policing) of behavior.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Montessori classroom there are many children, but only one of each material, shared by everyone.\u00a0 Each child has the freedom to work with a material they\u2019ve had a lesson on for as long as they like.\u00a0 No one can take it from them or share it with them while they\u2019re using it. Only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-35l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}