Montessori Elementary Support Group

Resources for Real Learning Montessori Elementary Support Group. This is a subscription programme designed to provide support to Montessori Guides on a "what you need when you need it" basis.

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Course curriculum

1. How to Use this platform
2. The Montessori Lens: The Human Tendencies and the Education of Human Children
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1. introduction to Montessori Education
2. Introduction to Montessori Education: Additional Resources
3. Standards for Montessori Schools
4. What is Montessori for 6 - 12?
5. Authentic Montessori, Montessori Inspired and "Montessori Light"
6. How a Montessori Environment Differs from a Conventional Classroom - Some Quotations
7. The Montessori Curriculum What it is and what it is not.
1. ZOOM GUIDELINES - PLEASE READ
2. Details for Zoom Sessions 1 August 2025 to 31 January 2026
3. Zoom 2025 July 22 Grammar The Noun
4. Zoom 2025 July Decimal Fractions Part 2
5. Zoom 2025 August 5 Grammar - Psycho-grammar in the Montessori Cosmic Curriculum
1. PRACTICALITIES | Balancing Free Choice in the Elementary Prepared Environment with External Expectations
2. PRACTICALITIES | Preparing the Environment for Freedom and Responsibility (2024 Zooms)
3. PRACTICALITIES | Leading a Montessori Class Part 1: Planning and Record Keeping
4. PRACTICALITIES | Leading a Montessori Classroom Part 2: Tools of Freedom and Responsibility and Assessment
5. PRACTICALITIES | The Tools of Freedom and Responsibility (More resources on this important topic
6. PRACTICALITIES | (Not) "Classroom Management"
1. PRACTICALITIES | Going Out (Zoom 2025 May 27)
2. PRACTICALITIES | The Role of the Adult: Self-Assessment Rubric
3. PRACTICALITIES | Practicalities of Running a Montessori Classroom (2023 Version)
4. PRACTICALITIES | The Prepared Environment for Second Plane Children
5. PRACTICALITIES | Children transferring from 3 - 6: Where should they be by the end of preschool
6. PRACTICALITIES | The Role of the Assistant
7. PRACTICALITIES | Practical Life in the Second Plane Environment
1. ASSESSMENT & REPORTING | Understanding the Nature and Purpose of Assessment: Beginning a Conversation
2. ASSESSMENT & REPORTING | Base Line Assessment
3. ASSESSMENT & REPORTING | Assessment Instruments Designed for Montessori (NCMPS)
4. ASSESSMENT & REPORTING | Reporting and Progression Using Bloom's Taxonomy
5. ASSESSMENT & REPORTING | What About Gr 6 Exit Outcomes?
1. PEDAGOGY | An Overview of the Three Period Lesson
2. PEDAGOGY | The Three Period Lesson in Cosmic Education
3. PEDAGOGY | Introduction to Storytelling in the Montessori 6 - 12 Environment
4. PEDAGOGY | The Process of Abstraction
5. PEDAGOGY | Control of Error
6. PEDAGOGY | The Montessori Lessons: Part 1
7. PEDAGOGY | Montessori Elementary Lessons Part 2a (Zoom 2025 February 11)
8. PEDAGOGY | Montessori Elementary Lessons Part 2b (Zoom 2025 March 11)
9. PEDAGOGY | How to prepare lessons not in your album (From the Geography Course 2023)
10. PEDAGOGY | Pedagogic Tools in the Montessori Environment 2024 01 30 [Focus on why worksheets do not have a place in Montessori.]
1. COSMIC EDUCATION| An Introduction to Cosmic Education
2. COSMIC EDUCATION: Great and Key Lessons
3. COSMIC EDUCATION| Great and Key Lessons Overview
4. COSMIC EDUCATION| What Belongs Where
1. GEOGRAPHY | Introduction to Geography in Cosmic Education
2. GEOGRAPHY | Handbook 1: The First Great Lesson
3. GEOGRAPHY | Geography in the Children's House and the transition to 6 - 12
4. GEOGRAPHY | Handbook 2: Laws of the Universe
5. GEOGRAPHY | Handbook 3: The Composition of the Earth
6. GEOGRAPHY | Water as a Cosmic Agent
7. GEOGRAPHY | Handbook 4: The Earth and The Sun
8. GEOGRAPHY | Handbook 5: The Work of Air
9. GEOGRAPHY | Handbook 6: The Work of Water
10. GEOGRAPHY | Handbook 7: Human Geography
11. GEOGRAPHY | Geography Command Cards
1. BIOLOGY | Introduction to Biology in Cosmic Education
2. BIOLOGY | Botany - The Coming of Life and the Timeline of life
3. BIOLOGY | Botany - Outline of Lesson Sequence
4. BIOLOGY | Botany - The Story of Plants
5. BIOLOGY | Botany - The Needs of Plants
6. BIOLOGY | Botany - The Leaf
7. BIOLOGY | Botany - The Stem
1. HISTORY | Introduction and Scope & Sequence
2. HISTORY | Long Black Strip, Coming of Humans, Hand Timeline
3. HISTORY | Fundamental Human Needs (Zoom 2025 July 8)
1. LANGUAGE | Great and Key Lessons in the Montessori Language Curriculum
2. LANGUAGE | History of Language
3. LANGUAGE | The Story of Communication in Signs
4. LANGUAGE | Word Study
5. LANGUAGE | Grammar: Introduction to Grammar (2023)
6. LANGUAGE | GRAMMAR | Parts of Speech
7. LANGUAGE | Grammar - The Noun - Additional Resources
8. LANGUAGE | Sentence Analysis Part 1 (Zoom 2025 March 25)
9. LANGUAGE |Sentence Analysis Part 2 ( Zoom 2025 April 8)
10. LANGUAGE | SPELLING | Spelling in the Montessori Elementary Programme
11. LANGUAGE | Social Language Development (Draft)
12. LANGUAGE | POETRY | Poetry and Performance Reading
13. LANGUAGE | DRAMA
1. LANGUAGE | Key Features of the Montessori Literacy Programme
2. LANGUAGE | Introduction to Reading: What is Necessary?
3. LANGUAGE | The second plane child and the literacy bridge
4. LANGUAGE | Additional Resources for Reading and Writing
5. LANGUAGE | Outline the Montessori Programme for Reading and Writing to About Age 8
6. LANGUGE | The Reading Brain - Introduction for 6 - 12 Guides
7. LANGUAGE | A deep dive into reading systems and two types of phonics approaches
8. LANGUAGE | Choosing alphabets
9. LANGUAGE | Sounds in Words - 6 - 12 Introduction to Phonics
10. LANGUAGE | Phonics, I spy, Sandpaper Letters
11. LANGUAGE | Mechanical Reading (Handbook Chapter)
12. LANGUAGE | Helping children who are not yet writing
1. MATHEMATICS | Math Sequence 6 - 9: Great Lesson and Bridging Lessons
2. MATHEMATICS | FRACTIONS Part 1: Introduction and Simple Operations
3. MATHEMATICS | FRACTIONS Part 2: Beyond Simple Operations Zoom Recording
4. MATHEMATICS | FRACTIONS | 1. Naming Fractions
5. MATHEMATICS | FRACTIONS 2. Notation and Nomenclature
6. MATHEMATICS | FRACTIONS | 3. Equivalence
7. MATHEMATICS | FRACTIONS| 4. Simple Operations with Common Fractions - Addition with same denominator
8. MATHEMATICS | FRACTIONS| 4. Simple Operations with Common Fractions - Subtraction with same denominator
9. MATHEMATICS | FRACTIONS| 4. Simple Operations with Common Fractions - Multiplication by a whole number
10. MATHEMATICS | FOUNDATIONS | Large bead frame Introduction for Adult
11. MATHEMATICS | FOUNDATIONS | Large bead frame Presentation 3: Notation Part 1
12. MATHEMATICS | FOUNDATIONS | Large Bead Frame Presentation 4: Notation Part 2
13. MATHEMATICS | FOUNDATIONS | Laws of Multiplication Commutative Law
14. MATHEMATICS | FOUNDATIONS | Laws of Multiplication Distributive Law 1
15. MATHEMATICS | FOUNDATIONS | Laws of Multiplication Distributive Law 2
16. MATHEMATICS | FOUNDATIONS | Multiples 1
17. MATHEMATICS | FOUNDATIONS | Multiples 2
18. MATHEMATICS | FOUNDATIONS | Divisibility by 2
19. MATHEMATICS | FOUNDATIONS | Divisibility by 5
20. MATHEMATICS | FOUNDATIONS | Divisibility by 4
21. MATHEMATICS | FOUNDATIONS | Measurement 1
22. MATHEMATICS | POWERS OF NUMBERS
23. MATHEMATICS | SQUARES AND CUBES | Squares and Cubes of Numbers 1 (Zoom 2025 April 2)
24. MATHEMATICS | SQUARES AND CUBES | Squares and Cubes of Numbers 2 (Zoom 2025 May 13)
25. MATHEMATICS | DECIMAL FRACTIONS |Introduction to The Decimal Board (Zoom 24 June 2025)
1. GEOMETRY | Introduction to Geometry in Cosmic Education
2. GEOMETRY | Stories for Geometry
3. GEOMETRY | Introduction to Geometry & Congruent, Similar and Equivalent
4. GEOMETRY | Geometry Nomenclature
5. GEOMETRY | Angles
6. GEOMETRY | Lines 1
7. GEOMETRY | Pathway to Euclid
8. GEOMETRY | The Circle (Zoom 2025 February 25)
1. TECHNOLOGY | Introduction
1. CHILDREN'S WORK | Making Small Books
2. CHILDREN'S WORK | Handwork
1. THEORY | Human Tendencies Introduction
2. THEORY | Human Tendencies - Digging Deeper
3. THEORY | Pscyhodisciplines
4. THEORY | How does a knowledge of human needs affect our practice?
5. THEORY | Planes of Development - Introductory video with links to additional resources
6. Theory | Planes of Development - Guidelines for Exploration of Planes of Development
7. THEORY | Planes of Development - The 2nd Plane of Development
8. THEORY | Planes of Development - Transition between the Planes
1. Montessori Books in the Public Domain
2. Journal Articles on the Internet
3. Bibliographies and Indexes

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$400.00
139 lessons
69 hours of video content

Montessori Elementary Support Group

Course curriculum

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Group Zoom Discussions

Practicalities in the Montessori 6 - 12 Environment - Freedom and Responsibility

Practicalities of the Montessori 6 - 12 Environment - Other Topics

Assessment and Reporting

Pedagogy for the Second Plane of Development

Cosmic Education (Including the Great Lessons)

Curriculum Area: Geography Physical Sciences

Curriculum Area: Biology

Curriculum Area: History

Curriculum Area: Language - English (Home Language/First Language)

Language - Bridging Literacy

Curriculum Area: Mathematics

Curriculum Area: Geometry

Curriculum Area | Technology NEW

Children's Work - Resources for Independent Work

General Theory Topics

General Resource Library

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