| Wednesday, September 22, 1965 Page 14B |
‘Montessori Method’ Classes Open in Columbus on
October 4.
By Jenice Jordan
Ever see a beginning first grader compute a thousand, adding,
subtracting, squaring, multiplying and dividing?
Or listened to a four or five-year-old read through a
kindergarten library by himself?
Mrs. John Chabria, 1712 W. 3rd Ave., has seen such
accomplishments-which, she says “startle parents but which
children take in stride” acquired by 3 to 6-year-olds trained
under the “Montessori method” she’ll use in a new Columbus
pre-school opening Oct. 4.
In the early 1900s, the late Maria Montessori, who was Italy's
first woman physician, developed special teaching materials
for her work with mentally retarded youngsters.
Results with “golden bead,” four-inch-high sandpaper letters
glued to a masonite board and a variety of geometric shapes
were so successful they spread into use for teaching normal
progress.
Progress made by the latter in reading, verbal capacity and
computing prompted Dr. Montessori to write books
prescribing the use her materials.
Her “method” subsequently has spread through the world with
interest increasing slowly but steadily in the United States
during the last dozen years.
Dr. Montessori’s premise was that the ages from three to six
are the most sensitive in a child’s development; according to
Mrs. Chabria, who adds, “at that age a child can absorb a
tremendous amount.”
She aims to help them, starting Oct. 4, with the opening of an
as yet unnamed pre-school which will meet five mornings a
week at Weisheimer Rd. Unitarian Church.
Not church sponsored, the school, which will be open 10
months a year for 10 to 15, three to five-year-olds, is the
result of requests by local parents who had read of Dr.
Montessori’s techniques and discovered that Mrs. Chabria is a
qualified teacher of them.
The very materials which form the basis for the method are
what originally drew the straight-coiffed young mother of a
four months old daughter to the method.
The Worthington native recalls, “I was a hearing therapist at
the Diocesan Child Guidance Center here and I asked where
some of the materials we were using came from.”
To learn more, she attended a special summer 1963 course in
Van Nuys, Cailf. (“at the time the course was offered by the
American Montessori Society each summer on alternate
coasts”) following it with a year’s internship on a teaching
team at New York City’s Founding Hospital to earn her
certification.
She had trained as a hearing therapist at Ohio State University.
Now says Mrs. Chabria, who with her husband returned to
Columbus eight months ago, four American universities,
including Xavier in Cincinnati, offer the course as a master’s.
Revealing that hers is the first Montessori pre-school in
Columbus, she noted that “there are quite a few in Cleveland.”
And actually, she adds “the school’s curriculum is different
from any other only for about one of each three hour (nine to
12) session.”
That’s when the teacher works individually with a child
showing him, for instance, one gold bead, then a bar of 10 of
them so he sees the difference between one and 10.
With the string of thousand, he can learn to count, cube,
square and whatever, she reports.
Computing in the thousands does not come with a few months’
training she admits, revealing she intends the school as a two-
year program so her graduates would go directly to the first
grade “where they could move from working with concrete
beads to figuring in the abstract.”
A 4-year-old however, can learn to read she says, and if a
child with a single year of Montessori training goes to public
kindergarten Mrs. Chabria “hopes the teacher regards him as a
challenge. Anyway, the child needn’t be bored; he can
continue reading on his own,” she adds.
And while she thinks some 3-year-olds are not ready for
schooling, early learning centers are continuing to gain
popularity…especially since the culturally deprived children
(in tax-financed pre-schools which started last summer) now
are getting some marvelous training.”
October 4.
By Jenice Jordan
Ever see a beginning first grader compute a thousand, adding,
subtracting, squaring, multiplying and dividing?
Or listened to a four or five-year-old read through a
kindergarten library by himself?
Mrs. John Chabria, 1712 W. 3rd Ave., has seen such
accomplishments-which, she says “startle parents but which
children take in stride” acquired by 3 to 6-year-olds trained
under the “Montessori method” she’ll use in a new Columbus
pre-school opening Oct. 4.
In the early 1900s, the late Maria Montessori, who was Italy's
first woman physician, developed special teaching materials
for her work with mentally retarded youngsters.
Results with “golden bead,” four-inch-high sandpaper letters
glued to a masonite board and a variety of geometric shapes
were so successful they spread into use for teaching normal
progress.
Progress made by the latter in reading, verbal capacity and
computing prompted Dr. Montessori to write books
prescribing the use her materials.
Her “method” subsequently has spread through the world with
interest increasing slowly but steadily in the United States
during the last dozen years.
Dr. Montessori’s premise was that the ages from three to six
are the most sensitive in a child’s development; according to
Mrs. Chabria, who adds, “at that age a child can absorb a
tremendous amount.”
She aims to help them, starting Oct. 4, with the opening of an
as yet unnamed pre-school which will meet five mornings a
week at Weisheimer Rd. Unitarian Church.
Not church sponsored, the school, which will be open 10
months a year for 10 to 15, three to five-year-olds, is the
result of requests by local parents who had read of Dr.
Montessori’s techniques and discovered that Mrs. Chabria is a
qualified teacher of them.
The very materials which form the basis for the method are
what originally drew the straight-coiffed young mother of a
four months old daughter to the method.
The Worthington native recalls, “I was a hearing therapist at
the Diocesan Child Guidance Center here and I asked where
some of the materials we were using came from.”
To learn more, she attended a special summer 1963 course in
Van Nuys, Cailf. (“at the time the course was offered by the
American Montessori Society each summer on alternate
coasts”) following it with a year’s internship on a teaching
team at New York City’s Founding Hospital to earn her
certification.
She had trained as a hearing therapist at Ohio State University.
Now says Mrs. Chabria, who with her husband returned to
Columbus eight months ago, four American universities,
including Xavier in Cincinnati, offer the course as a master’s.
Revealing that hers is the first Montessori pre-school in
Columbus, she noted that “there are quite a few in Cleveland.”
And actually, she adds “the school’s curriculum is different
from any other only for about one of each three hour (nine to
12) session.”
That’s when the teacher works individually with a child
showing him, for instance, one gold bead, then a bar of 10 of
them so he sees the difference between one and 10.
With the string of thousand, he can learn to count, cube,
square and whatever, she reports.
Computing in the thousands does not come with a few months’
training she admits, revealing she intends the school as a two-
year program so her graduates would go directly to the first
grade “where they could move from working with concrete
beads to figuring in the abstract.”
A 4-year-old however, can learn to read she says, and if a
child with a single year of Montessori training goes to public
kindergarten Mrs. Chabria “hopes the teacher regards him as a
challenge. Anyway, the child needn’t be bored; he can
continue reading on his own,” she adds.
And while she thinks some 3-year-olds are not ready for
schooling, early learning centers are continuing to gain
popularity…especially since the culturally deprived children
(in tax-financed pre-schools which started last summer) now
are getting some marvelous training.”
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"Our aim is not only to make the child understand, and still less to
force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse
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~ Dr. Maria Montessori
force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse
him to his innermost core."
~ Dr. Maria Montessori
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