THE DEVELOPMENT OF MOVEMENT

One of the pillars of the Montessori view regarding development in the 0-3 age stage is confidence in the innate potential of children. As adults, we influence their development by repeating ways of doing without prior reflection.

• What guidelines can we follow to promote their autonomy?
• When to intervene and how to act?

Favouring their physical autonomy during the first years of life will contribute to the intellectual autonomy that will develop in their childhood and will strengthen their moral autonomy in youth. The activities of daily life during this stage will allow the development of your intelligence.

• Should we buy Montessori materials or can we use everyday objects?
• What objects should be present in your environment?

The acquisition of autonomous movements and full motor development is benefited by the design of the environment together with appropriate clothing. Our customs must contribute to creating a rich and stimulating literacy environment for language development.

• How do we promote reading? What criteria should we follow?
• How do we enrich your orality?

The sensory experience is the basis of the development of autonomy so that parents and educators should not interrupt these instinctive processes, but make available to children suitable environments in which to function. What can we parents do?

• Allow freedom of movement
• Apply the principle of free choice
• Promote global motor skills

This training allows us to respond to the needs of our children and students by promoting free exploration, impacting their self-esteem through suitable activities. For this reason, we must offer them:

• A suitable and adapted environment
• The possibility of choosing

As parents and educators we must know what kinds of activities improve their development and the elements that promote their autonomy.

This course offers the necessary tools to know the type of tasks to propose to children, according to each age period, and makes available to us the necessary mechanisms that promote:

• Stimulation and control of movements
• Coordination
• The acquisition of skills