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Statesville Montessori School uses standardized testing as a tool to assess each individual student in order for our teachers to better adjust the curriculum to strengthen the student’s academic development. Our school uses the Terra Nova Achievement Test, a national standardize test, given by teachers near the end of every school year. The test evaluates reading, vocabulary, language mechanics, mathematics, science, social studies, and spelling. Student performance is based on national results.
Set Up For Success
“You can’t understand Google unless you know that both Larry and Sergey were Montessori kids…This is baked into how Larry and Sergey approach problems. They’re always asking, why should it be like that? It’s the way their brains were programmed early on.” – Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!
According to a Wall Street Journal article by Peter Sims, there’s a “Montessori Mafia” among the creative elite. This educational method produced, among others, Larry Page, Sergei Brin, Jeff Bezos, Jimmy Wales, Peter Drucker, Julia Child, David Blaine, and Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, all students in Montessori schools. Apparently there is something to the method Italian physician Maria Montessori came up with around the turn of the 20th century.
A Letter to Our Prospective Parents
Dear Prospective Montessori Parents,
Thank you for your interest in Statesville Montessori School. Many people know Montessori as an education philosophy. But in reality, Montessori is a method of education that leads to self-confident, independent, and self-disciplined children who acquire a sound background for academic and creative skills and interest.
Admission to the preschool or elementary/middle school program does not depend on a child’s having had previous Montessori training. In the school’s experience, students who enter after having attended more traditional schools adapt quickly to the small classes, the individual attention, the freedom to progress, and the intellectual stimulation.
Students who re-enter traditional programs after having spent time in a Montessori school tend to be at an academic advantage in terms of the extent and quality of their learning, and of their heightened self-motivation and self-discipline.
If you have a child from two and one-half to thirteen years of age, we have a place for him/her at the Montessori Children’s House or the Montessori Elementary/Middle School. Please call to request more information concerning enrollment or arranging a time to visit either campus.
Sincerely,
Stacey S. Crosswhite
SMS Director