Rosemary Quaranta of the Seton Montessori Institute gives a brief overview of the ingenious grammar symbols Montessori developed to help children learn the parts of speech and sentence structure in the elementary grades.

Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin talk about their experience as Montessori students http://bit.ly/cJwjhf This is a YouTube excerpt from a Barbara Walters interview. Watch it before the networks take it down. Although both had college professors for parents and they met at Stanford, they credit early childhood Montessori as the source of their [...]

If you search on Montessori on YouTube you will find hundreds of excellent videos to watch. Our Montessori videos are the top four when you search on “Montessori.” We have a total of 30 Montessori videos on YouTube including all the podcasts and interviews with Montessori pioneers such as Celma Perry and Ginny Varga. If [...]

If you subscribe to the “Montessori for Parents Podcast”, you now have a choice of a standard definition or a high definition channel. If you have the connection speed and are willing to wait for a few more seconds, the high definition channel is worth it. You can also download episodes from either channel to [...]

Ginny Varga talks about the sensitive period for language that infants and toddlers have during the first three years of life.

A new DVD with Ginny Varga discussing movement, order and language will be provided free with the purchase of either, “Preparation for Life: Montessori Infant-Toddler Communities” or with the “Infant-Toddler Assistant Training” package. Three individual clips, shot in high definition, illustrate Ginny’s insights with classroom footage. Please call to request this special offer. The DVD [...]

EVP is packaging a free DVD with certain purchases. With the purchase of “Nurturing the Love of Learning: Montessori for the Early Childhood Years” we are offering a new DVD with Anna Perry talking about the five curriculum areas. These five clips are drawn from the “Montessori for Parents Podcast” and will provide schools with [...]

Ginny Varga of the Center for Montessori Teacher Education explains the sensitive period for movement for infants and toddlers.

Montessori recognized early on that infants and toddlers develop knowledge rapidly in the areas of movement, order and language. Early drafts of the next two podcasts on the sensitive periods of movement and order are now available on YouTube to review. Movement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2qhq3GwyWQ Order: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE6NpPI0zs4

The sixth episode of the “Montessori for Parents Podcast” covers the early childhood cultural curriculum. We now have given an overview of all five of the early childhood curriculum areas. In future episodes, we will go into more detail about each one. In the next three episodes, we will cover the infant-toddler sensitive periods of [...]