in an edition of 5,000 copies under the title The Montessori Method. The English version of Il Metodo appears in the U.S. Model schools set up in Paris, New York, and Boston. The Montessori method is already being put into practice in English and Argentinean schools and is beginning to be introduced into Italian and Swiss primary schools. Resigns her teaching post at the University of Rome and gives up her private medical practice to concentrate entirely on education. Second book: L’Antropologia pedagogica (Pedagogical Anthropology). Two parallel teacher training courses are held in the Franciscan convent on Via Giusti in Rome, where there is a model Children’s House. The English edition is titled The Montessori Method. There, she writes, in the space of a month, her first book, Il Metodo della Pedagogia Scientifica applicato all’educazione infantile nelle Case dei Bambini. In the years to follow, this book is translated into over 20 languages. Gives the first training course in her method to about 100 students in Città di Castello. The Children’s House on Via Solari in Milan, run by Anna Maria Maccheroni, is opened. These lectures become the basis of her book Pedagogical Anthropology (1910).įirst Children’s House (Casa dei Bambini) is opened at 53 Via dei Marsi in the San Lorenzo district of Rome on the Feast of the Epiphany, January 6. Lectures in anthropology and biology at the University of Rome’s school of education, incorporating her clinical observations of pupils in Rome’s elementary schools.

Visits elementary schools to do anthropological research. She succeeds in fostering the development of some of the children to such an extent that they achieve the same results on state exams as typically developing schoolchildren.īegins a second degree-in education, experimental psychology, and anthropology-at the University of Rome. For two years, she experiments at the model school with materials to stimulate the senses. Lectureship in hygiene and anthropology at the teacher training college for women in Rome.Īppointed director of the Orthophrenic School, a model school for training teachers of children with developmental disabilities. Studies the writings of French doctors Itard and Séguin, who worked with disabled children.Īudits courses in pedagogy at the University of Rome reads all major works in educational philosophy over the past 200 years.Īttends women’s congress in London received by Queen Victoria. Represents Italy at the International Women’s Congress in Berlin delivers address on rights of working women, including equal pay for equal work. Maria Montessori born on August 31 in Chiaravalle, Ancona province, Italy.Īttends a boys’ school in Rome, with a science/engineering emphasis.Īgainst opposition from her father, she pursues her wish to become a doctor.īecomes one of the first women to obtain a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Rome.

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