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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In recent Facebook posts they have included pictures of children coloring culturally relevant things. I think the question to ask is how faithful they are in the younger ages to Montessori materials. From what I know about Montessori, but from what I understand there would likely be some paper and crayons and the kids could choose to draw what they want, but not coloring papers, even if flags, etc, etc, [/quote] From my experience they are not particularly faithful to Montessori materials in any of the grades. For example, they do a 100 book challenge from the American Reading Company that is very clearly NOT in line with a Montessori approach. It actually involves some level of competition amongst the kids which is really the opposite of what Montessori is all about.[/quote] LAMB also does this book challenge and I think it's a great way to encourage reading at home. The entire reading program at LAMB is not Montessori, but it's working. Sometimes I feel like schools can't win - either they adhere strictly to their preferred pedagogy, and get lower PARCC scores, or they don't, and get criticism like this. I don't see any competition in this book challenge at LAMB (at least, in K) so perhaps it's all in the execution. Also the implementing teachers are primarily Montessori teachers so they hopefully try to make it adhere to that philosophy. I think having some materials that aren't strictly montessori is ok so long as the guiding principles are strongly upheld. Coloring pages aren't really part of that, but some teachers like to bring them in to celebrate holidays and things like that. LAMB also has the flags to color in. [/quote]
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