Smash Notes
What Is a Typical Day in Benedicte Bossute's Montessori Classroom?
at 30:15
Answer
Benedicte Bossute tells Jennifer Gonzalez on The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast that a typical day starts with morning group time, then a three-hour block of independent work. Three hours is the number she treats as essential. Children get a weekly agenda and choose which activities to do. The items are suggestions for the week, not a lockstep daily list. Some children rush the work they dislike and others postpone it, and that changes week to week if the teacher has made the task look less impossible. Her job, she says, is to keep offering the work and to remove the obstacle. Some children never join the lesson and learn by watching from the side.
Where this answer comes from
- Show
- The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast
- Episode
- 3: the Montessori Method
- Date
More notes from this episode
- What Did Benedicte Bossute Say Montessori Really Is?
- Where Do Benedicte Bossute's Montessori Standards Come From?
- How Is a Student's Agenda Set Up
- What Is the Ideal Classroom Size
- What Is a Typical Day in Benedicte Bossute's Montessori Classroom?
- What Is a Daily Schedule Like at Ms. Bossute's School
- How Do You Approach a Montessori Child Who Won't Work?
- What Does Ms. Bossute Do When She Loses Patience?
- Does Ms. Bussette Rarely Face Discipline Problems?
- How Does Benedicte Bossute Assess Children in a Montessori Class?
- How Would a Teacher Handle a Situation With a Student Who Comes From a Background Where Learning Wasn't Seen as a Priority
- What Kind of Experience Is Learning According to Montessori
- How Can a Public-school Teacher Start Using Montessori Methods?
More answers like this
- What Is a Daily Schedule Like at Ms. Bossute's School
- How Is a Student's Agenda Set Up
- How Do You Approach a Montessori Child Who Won't Work?
- Where Do Benedicte Bossute's Montessori Standards Come From?
- What Should Be Offered in Schools
- Did Kara Swisher Tell Her Kids Not to Do Their Homework?
Related episodes
- 65: Five Ways College Teachers Can Improve Their Instruction
- 69: Three Surprising Reasons Students Don't Get into Top Colleges
- 9: How to Connect with Your Students
- Jason Calacanis
- Jason Calacanis: TikTok should be banned, Tim Cook doesn't have enough "chutzpah," and Uber will be fine
- Darius Monsef – Sniper Parent, Entrepreneur
- Jason Calacanis - Entrepreneur turned Investor shares his insight about success, hard work, education, and the future.