Ana Pinto, an expert in Architecture and Education. Ana is an architect and a Montessori educator who designs buildings, installations, games - everything around education and children. In her view, the accuracy of a project results from knowing how to deal with what exists here and now, from knowing how to tell new stories for the present.
Sashikala Ananth holds a degree in architecture from the School of Architecture, Madras University. Sashikala has researched the classical Indian science of Architecture – Vaastu, for over thirty years.
Music Therapy is based on the understanding that the ability to respond to music is an inborn quality in all human beings.
Ideas in ‘Happy Teachers Change the World’ by Thich Nhat Hanh will be discussed
The child who has done the admired piece of work is probably busy in a far corner on some new effort, and is only wanting to be left in peace.
Music is all around us, all you have to do is listen! The first sign of life is the rhythmic beating of our hearts. We have music flowing through our veins. Let’s listen to the music around us, let’s make some music, sing some songs and wonder at the impact it has on us.
India is a democratic country, as laid out in its Constitution and thereby all elements that are a part of this nation, be it an institution or a programme or an individual need to abide by one of the fundamental premises of being democratic.
All children, not only have the ability but also the intrinsic motivation to learn, believed Dr. Maria Montessori. In line with this belief, the Montessori environment which was first established in 1907 i.e. over a century ago has continued to keep its essence of inclusivity in education alive.
Set the children free, let them have fair play, let them run out when it is raining, take off their shoes when they find pools of water, and when the grass of the meadow is damp with dew let them runabout with their bare feet and trample on it;
IMTC-Central announces a special session with a very special teacher and teacher- educator, Priya Rajagopalan. She will share from her experience in the elementary classroom, working with children from 6 yrs to 12 yrs.
IMTC-Central announces a special session with a very special teacher and teacher- educator, Priya Rajagopalan. She will share from her experience in the elementary classroom, working with children from 6 yrs to 12 yrs.
In Montessori’s view, observation is a tool that offers us the possibility of supporting the self-construction of children, and observation could also be utilised as a technique that could guide us to appropriate responses to the particular needs (or problems) of the children in our care.
