The Project

As my senior year is winding down, I'll be spending a good deal of time not at my high school, but instead at a local preschool where I first attended school. Through a senior project known as S.C.O.R.E., I'll be spending fifteen hours a week at the preschool until early May, when I'll start working there full time, at thirty hours a week. The ages of the children I'll be working with range from infants to kindergartners, and I will be going back and forth between the various classrooms, doing whatever tasks need to be accomplished.

The school is a Montessori school, so it is run slightly differently from your typical school. The Montessori Method of teaching is based on the idea of freedom within limits, which I'll describe in more detail in later posts. Working in this setting, I hope to gain insight into the Montessori Method of teaching as compared with more traditional methods.

Before I talk about my day to day work, though, I wanted to make at least one post that explains some recent happenings. With all the rain we've received lately, lots of people's basements have been flooded. The preschool is no exception. And while they are up and running again, the classrooms have had to be moved upstairs into the church's main function hall. Classes are continuing as usual now, but there are still a lot of things being sorted out. I guess I'll just have to wait and see what it's like on the first day!