You are listening to Episode 69 Montessori in Real Life, bringing the Montessori

Philosophy into your home.

Welcome to this week's episode where I am welcoming Teresa for Montessori in Real Life on Instagram.

And we're going to be talking all about the Montessori Philosophy of Education.

Thank you so much for being here today Teresa.

Thank you so much for having me.

So tell me a little bit more about yourself and what led you to get trained in Montessori Education.

Yeah, so I stumbled upon Montessori right after college undergrad when I ended up as a

teachers assistant in a brand new Montessori toddler classroom. And I was immediately drawn to the

philosophy and it really resonated with my background in developmental psychology. And I was just

amazed at how confident and happy and capable toddlers could be in this community.

And at that time I was already on my path to graduate school and I was planning to get my PhD

in developmental psychology. But Montessori was really always on my mind and I realized after

my masters that I just couldn't see myself in academia. So I found myself back in Montessori and

decided to do my infant toddler teacher training and then began working as a Montessori guide.

So that's kind of how I entered the world of Montessori.

That's great. I love the Montessori style of education. My son is actually in a Montessori

preschool right now. And I'm just so excited to do this episode because I'm a pediatrician

and I do value early childhood education. But when I was actually looking into it,

I obviously don't know everything there is to know about early childhood education. That's not

my specialty. So I'm just so grateful that we're able to talk about this. I'm also going to have

other people come on to talk about the various other styles of early childhood education.

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