What is Patience Montessori School’s viewpoint on student assessment?
Student assessment, focused on observation, dialogue and presentations is an important and everyday part of Patience Montessori School’s classroom approach. Teachers use frequent assessments to plan their next lessons and to individualize instruction. Assessment at Patience Montessori School is a normal part of everyday school life and is stress-free and aimed to help, rather than categorize and segment children. Montessori’s principles are focused on building strengths and nurturing areas for improvement. This is dramatically opposed to traditional methods of test based assessments, which categorize students, force them to learn at a pace that may not be aligned to individual student needs, and that do very little to help students improve on areas where opportunities for growth exist.
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