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J A N UA RY 9, 2 015 Available online at www.postoakschool.org
W HO H E BECOM E S W H I L E L E A R N I NG W H AT H E L E A R N S by John Long, Head of School ( first published 2007)
Lower Elementary students are adept at focusing on their chosen work within the framework of the classroom
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hirteen different activities were going on in a lower elementary classroom this morning. The teacher was working with a group of five children, coaching them as they worked with number multiples. It was the end of the lesson and the children were doing follow-up problems. Their teacher needed to know
that they would remember how to do the work once they left her table. One of the boys said to a friend as they worked, “You didn’t invent multiples.” His friend replied, “I didn’t say that. I said I invented this way of doing them.” Montessori students are creative. They