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[quote=Anonymous]Kids who have their own "pace" of work and don't want to fit a schedule as set by other schools.  Our twins had issues in their first play-based daycare/preschool.  One likes to work with a given toy/project until he's figure everything out about it.  He hated to be interrupted by "It's group circle time.  Put away your toys and come to the circle," when he wasn't done with what he was trying to figure out.  The other twin is flighty and works with something until he has a solution or the lesson and then it done.  If the group is working on it, once he has the answer, he loses interest and wants to go do something else even if the teacher is still trying to do a group lesson or if it's still time for X activity.  He gets bored and antsy because he's ready for something else.

The student-driven pace of learning in Montessori worked out well for them.  Twin A would work on 3 projects in one hour, while Twin B would work on about 12-15 in an hour.  Our Montessori school allows the students to focus on any project as long as they want provided they learn the lesson expected from the project.  So, for Twin A, that meant that once he got the assigned lesson, he was free to explore the activity, pieces, try different configurations, etc.  Twin B loved the self-pacing because he would do the project, finish the expected lesson, put it away and was free to find something else to do.  And as long as he got the expected lesson from the project, he could move on again.  It worked amazingly well for them being so self-paced and environment.  My kids flourished in this environment and learned at an amazing pace.  I personally think the self-pacing made a world of difference in their level of progress.[/quote]

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