Montessori Classroom - 2 K, 10 4-yo, 10 3-yo, and 1 teacher 1 assistant?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:totally depends on the school. my son was in K in a montessori with 6 k students out of about 25 and things ran very smoothly. very experienced teachers and his class had some extra hands…a student teacher, and an aide who came at 12 or so. the k kids in his school had their own class in the afternoon as well.

This sounds a bit better though. At least there's enough to constitute a reading group or groups of 3. 2 or 3 total is pretty sparse and doesn't indicate good changes of your K child having peers who are at-level.

YOu don't understand Montessori. There is no group learning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:totally depends on the school. my son was in K in a montessori with 6 k students out of about 25 and things ran very smoothly. very experienced teachers and his class had some extra hands…a student teacher, and an aide who came at 12 or so. the k kids in his school had their own class in the afternoon as well.

This sounds a bit better though. At least there's enough to constitute a reading group or groups of 3. 2 or 3 total is pretty sparse and doesn't indicate good changes of your K child having peers who are at-level.

YOu don't understand Montessori. There is no group learning.

I don't have much experience with it, you're right. But when we looked at a public Montessori last year with a similar age grouping, we were told they'd pool the older kids for reading while the little ones napped and that they'd try to work with them to get them up to par with reading. But I'm betting public montessori schools have to be a little different because they're beholden to state standards. And I assumed OP was speaking about a public.