Montessori Method (Sensorial Approach) – Maria Montessori
The Montessori Approach was developed by Dr. Maria Montessori (August, 1870 – May, 1952). She was an Italian physician and educator best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name and her writing on scientific pedagogy. Her educational method is in use in several schools throughout the world. Her most effective and famous method was the use of sensorial materials to teach the children. The sensorial materials provide a kind of guide to observation, for it classifies the impression that each sense can receive; the colours, notes, forms and sizes, touch sensations, odours and tastes. She developed didactic apparatus to train the senses and also to train in language and Mathematics.Principles were based upon the development and education of the child from within, without any material reward and punishment through self-education by catering to individual differences, sense training and through motor efficiency and muscular training.