We recognize the diverse needs of families as we prepare preschoolers for kindergarten. Our commitment is to ensure that every student receives a comprehensive education encompassing practical life skills, language development, sensorial experiences, and enrichment activities.
Every Pennsylvania Avenue Montessori School student thoroughly learns how to study. In study, as in other fields, it is know-how that separates successful ventures from unsuccessful ones. By understanding the fundamentals of the learning process itself, Pennsylvania Avenue Montessori School students discover that any lack of success in learning can be traced back to causes they can control themselves thus putting educational success in the students own hands
Education is only meaningful when it is personal—when it connects with a student’s life and the real world. The Pennsylvania Avenue Montessori School Program helps students make that connection by having them explore and understand purpose—the reason for studying something and what it has to do with the student personally. This not only acts to help students clarify their own purpose for study, it helps them firm up their goals in life. Every Pennsylvania Avenue Montessori School student works from an individualized program that addresses his or her own strengths and weaknesses, goals and purposes. In this way, Pennsylvania Avenue Montessori School students receive a truly personalized education and graduate focused on their future.
A successful life demands integrity, along with the use of logic and reason, in determining right and wrong. That’s why you will see courses, activities and projects interwoven throughout the curriculum that strengthen honesty, accountability and character. We call it “developing backbone” and it is central to the success of The Pennsylvania Avenue Montessori School Program.
We’re zealots about the basics. By broadening the traditional concept of the basics (reading, writing and arithmetic) to include study, communication, research and reasoning skills, we give our students the essential building blocks for a successful life.
Literacy gets enormous attention in the Pennsylvania Avenue Montessori School Program. Highly literate people have the keys to a broad and penetrating understanding of concepts and cultures. The Pennsylvania Avenue Montessori School approach to literacy consists of building a step-by-step pathway to full comprehension.
The Pennsylvania Avenue Montessori School Program revolves around a basic concept—get students to use their educations to challenge life’s problems and goals every day they are in school. To ensure that occurs, demonstration and practical application can be found throughout the program.
Education takes teamwork. When students, faculty and parents together decide on common goals and line up as a team, almost anything can be accomplished. We invest in parents as team players by providing good coordination and making available important information about a student’s program, goals and progress. We expect to share strategies and insights on tackling difficult areas of academic progress or personal growth. And we always work to strengthen a student’s relationship with his or her parents.
Does a student understand and can he apply what he has learned?. At Pennsylvania Avenue Montessori School, that is the final question that the instructor as well as the student must answer before any educational step is considered complete. We hold each accountable for the student’s quality of study.
