How is my childs progress tracked or communicated?
According to Montessori, formal evaluation including testing or formal report cards can be inaccurate and misleading. Furthermore, any good teacher who works with the same children for three years and carefully tracks their progress, knows more about their progress than any pencil and paper test can reveal. Instead, a child’s progress in areas of physical, emotional and social development are communicated to the parent by parent-teacher interview scheduled bi-yearly, once in December and once in June at the end of the school year. A written progress report is issued at the end of the 3-year cycle. Ongoing issues, questions, or concerns may be dealt with on a daily basis if necessary by scheduling specific meetings with the teacher outside normal school hours.
