Very interesting to hear one person's perspective about common core standards and Montessori perspective. Especially since many Montessori schools are charter schools and will still need to follow Common Core. Currently at my Montessori charter school we have been told that the Montessori materials address all the common core standards, but beyond that we have not had any staff development on teaching Common Core unlike many public school teachers have. Yet our school site is a test site for the new state standardized test . My third grade students will be taking the new test on a computer in May. This worries me especially since we are very limited on technology in our school. We only have one tablet per classroom. Our staff is now discussing what we want for technology for next year because our 3rd through 6th graders will have to take the state test on a computer and with little computer skills addressed at school how can we expect them to properly take the test.
Many Montessori-ans believe that computers are not necessary in the classroom. This is our current debate now. Do we allow more computer usage in our classrooms, where there is virtually no usage at the current moment?
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