Gardenia as a Montessori Powered school has the primary section that follows the Montessori Principles to the core and its environment is an exact replica of that of an Authentic Montessori School. The environment includes the work area, sand area, display of Montessori Materials and teachers to observe and not teach the children. The environment also has various materials to assist the child in learning with more emphasizes on the sensory education, as in this stage, learning takes place only through the senses of the child. The absorbent mind of the child is active in this phase and preserves all the observations as it is recorded by the child…
This is a totally different scenario when compared to that of the conventional schools where black board is used to teach children. There is no confinement of the children to desks and chairs at Gardenia, where children resemble the butterflies that fly everywhere in freedom while in a conventional school the children according to Maria Montessori ‘are like butterflies pinned to a chair’. The child has the freewill to choose his activity and a place of his liking to work.
As the total environment is child friendly in all aspects, the child seldom looks for assistance or guidance from the teacher and does every single activity independently. The child is able to distinguish everything in a sequential logic and makes it a habit in the progressing days of study. The environment supports and respects the independence of the child whereas the freedom is curtailed to a large extent in most of the other schools.
The engagement of the teacher with the child is very cautious so as not to disturb the independent progression of the child in any way. This paves the way for flooding out of the inner powerhouse rich in potential that is powerful to bring about a change in the life of the individual.