Assignment No: 1
Define the term Sensitive periods and explain how the teacher’s knowledge and
understanding of these periods determines he’s/her preparation and custodianship
of the prepared environment.
According to Montessori that it is very easy for a child to acquire certain abilities such as
language, discrimination of sensory stimuli, and mental modeling of the environment at
certain periods this is what Dr. Montessori called Sensitive periods. (Montessori, 1966).
In my easy I’m going to explain the main sensitive periods and why they are important
for the child’s first stages of development and how the teacher can facilitate these periods
for the child to reach his/her optimum development.
The age range of these sensitive periods is in the first period of growth from birth to six
years of age (Montessori, 2007). During these sensitive periods a child has an incredible
power of absorption; Montessori also called this time......
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