Curriculum

Today's rapid technological and social change makes it increasingly difficult for us to understand and keep pace with the modern world. This has put schools under terrific pressure to re-evaluate what should be taught in an age when no one can predict the skills that our children will need when they reach maturity. In an era of technological revolution and social change, the foundation of a good education is to learn how to learn. Our curriculum encompasses the full substance of a traditional course of study and in addition, helps students learn to think clearly, do their own research, express themselves in writing and speech, and to put their knowledge to practical application.

The Montessori curriculum is organized as an inclined spiral plane of integrated studies. Lessons are introduced simply and concretely at the primary level, and are reinforced several times over the years at increasing degrees of abstraction and complexity. This integrated thematic approach, one of Montessori's great strengths, ties the separate disciplines of the curriculum together into studies of the physical universe, the world of nature, and the human experience. Literature, the arts, history, social issues, government, economics, architecture, science, and the study of technology all compliment each other.

The spiral of the Montessori curriculum has no end, and the depth to which any subject can be persued is limited only by one's interests and abilities. Our curriculum has no outer limits except for mankind's knowledge and imagination. It is designed to intrigue children and develop in them a lifelong love of learning. At the same time, our expectations are quite high, challenging each student to his/her fullest individual potential, and establishing a clear standard of achievement and quality of thought and work.