The Montessori teacher acts as a catalyst and a guide to help children learn by doing for themselves, always encouraging the children to extend their natural curiosity and desires to touch and experiment. The teacher tries to remove all barriers to the child's learning through exploration and manipulation. The child is allowed to work without interruption and to repeat activities as long as his or her inner timetable dictates. The children are shown, individually and in small groups, new activities relating to their interests and level of development, with the hope that each small success will motivate the child to progress to the next level of difficulty, thereby leading to an attitude of joy in learning. Rules for the children and teachers reduced to the simple attitudes of being kind to one another and to the environment.
Teachers see their role as guides for each child's self-development to full independence.
The School makes every effort to encourage the children to become aware of themselves as caretakers for the planet earth and responsible members of the international family of mankind. The School stresses the need for a spirit of ecological and social responsibility and tries to model its philosophy as a caring community for children, parents, and faculty. In the curriculum, therefore, ecological and international studies are emphasized. We ask that the parents of children enrolled continue their role as their children's primary teachers by entering into a partnership with the School. The parents are therefore expected to maintain good everyday communication with the teachers regarding any changes in their family or child's life, to schedule individual parent conferences at least twice each year, and to continue their own education in childhood development by attending the parent meetings and reading books by Montessori and other childhood development experts.