The aim of the admissions process is to find a good match between the child, their family and the facility. This involves both parents (or legal guardians) learning about the English Montessori School and the Montessori method, while the school is learning about the child and her family.
Briefly speaking, bilingualism is the ability to speak two languages.
Babies and children of up to 7 years of age are geniuses at learning languages. Then the ability to learn a language steadily decreases, remaining high, however, in the early childhood education. Never again do we learn foreign languages with such ease.
“The teacher’s task is not an easy one! She has to prepare enormous amount of knowledge to provide for the child’s mental hunger. She is not like an ordinary teacher, limited by the curriculum. Catering for the child’s needs is clearly harder.”
Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori