MONTESSOR
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TRADITIONAL
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Mixed age group
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Same age group
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Motivated by self-development
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Teacher-motivated
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Self-correcting materials
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Teacher corrects errors
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Children learn by handling objects and teaching themselves
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Teacher lectures
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Individual learning
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Group learning
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Teacher is observer and director
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Teacher is focal point and dominant influence
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Child completes “cycles of activity”
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Activity cycles determined by set time
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Few interruptions
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Frequent interruptions
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Freedom to move and work within classroom
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Assigned seats and specific class periods
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Materials used for specific purpose with sequence of steps
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Materials used in many ways without previous instruction.
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Work for joy of working and sense of discovery
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Work because they’re told to
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Environment provides discipline
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Teacher provides discipline
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Encouraged to help one another
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Seek help from teacher
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Child chooses own work
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Teacher sets curriculum
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Child sets own pace
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Teacher sets pace
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Child free to discover on own
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Teacher guides child
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Emphasis on concrete
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Emphasis on abstract
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Reality-oriented
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Much role-playing and fantasy
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Specific places for materials, sense of order
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Random placement, not necessary to return to specific place
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Child-centered learning environment
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Teacher-centered
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Self-education through self-correcting materials
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Use of reward and punishment in motivation
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Recognition of sensitive periods
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All children treated alike
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Multi-sensory material to develop specific skills
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Play materials for nonspecific skills
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