Interventions
Workshops

Support for students to address functional, academic, cognitive, behavioral, and social skills.

Having just graduated our first class of seniors, the founding staff and students of DMHS are entering a stage of revision: How to maintain Montessori structure and philosophy while also giving students opportunities to succeed in the dominant educational realm? Senior Emma Logan will lead the session and facilitate a discussion among a diverse group of her peers from DMHS who have varied ideas on the subject.

Making opportunities for the students to experience valorization can feel contrived and half-conceived. In a maker-space environment with real tools and guidance from a careful observer, the drive to create often surpasses any behavioral conflicts both internally and in-between peers. Some simple components can make a hand-tool project, destined for personal use or a micro-economic endeavor, successful while shifting the often conflicted emotions of students' daily lives towards grounded awareness and heightened self-esteem. The goal is to keep hand work accessible, simple, and engaging.

Attendees will leave with lesson outlines and material lists including simple tools. Anecdotes highlighting successes and mistakes will connect Montessori’s Human Tendencies to the developmental tasks of the third plane providing a pedagogical framework for attendees to create varieties of new activities for their students.