Drama
The Drama aspect of the course will prepare candidates on techniques to train children to develop interest in stage plays as they grow in confidence and self-esteem to face the audience. This will also promote their literacy skills.
Music and Movement
Music will cover presentation of rhythmic skills, singing, recognizing and playing various instruments, simple notation, and an introduction to an appreciation of music styles, composers, and their work. In the Movement aspect, students will learn presentation of activities to develop body awareness, coordination, and grace through games and line activities; introduction to various styles of […]
Art and Craft
In the Arts course, there will be an overview of the value of teaching the arts and crafts for the development of creative expression, cultural appreciation, and the connection of the study of the arts to intellectual development. Through Visual Arts, candidates will learn how to prepare an art area of the classroom and presentation […]
Cultural Subjects
Trainer: Mr Kayode Uwagboe & Abraham Ogunkanmbi Maria Montessori designed the curriculum of the cultural subjects as an interdisciplinary study of the life of man on earth throughout time and in all geographic regions. It includes the study of geography, history, music, art, botany, zoology, language and mathematics. It encompasses all cultural subjects as part […]
Mathematics
Trainer: Abraham Ogunkanmbi The Montessori materials in Pre-school are designed to allow the child an opportunity to exercise his/her mathematical mind as a gateway to abstraction. Through sensorial experiences and indirect preparation, the child measures, compares and analyzes. These skills assist him/her in discriminating size and quantity. The Montessori math materials enable the child to […]
Literacy Skills (Language)
Trainers: Abraham Ogunkanmbi & Ifeoma Badejo Language materials consist, first and foremost, of the spoken words of teachers and other adults in the classroom, including the reading aloud of appropriate stories, poems, non-fictional writings, and careful use of precise nomenclature when presenting Montessori and other materials. Reading readiness/accomplishment is continuously assessed and appropriate presentations necessary […]
Sensorial Education
Trainer: Oluwatoyin Awofeso Sensorial materials help the child to refine her/his five senses – visual, auditory, gustatory, olfactory, and tactile, as well as her/his stereognostic ability. The child learns to discriminate, order and classify sensory impressions in relation to size, shape, and color (working with, for example, the pink tower, cylinder blocks, colour tablets); sound […]
Practical Life Exercises
Trainers: Abraham Ogunkanmbi & Bukola Alarape The practical life activities are focused around preliminary activities and movement, care of self, care of environment and social skills/grace and courtesy, helping the child to develop particular lifelong skills (for example, zipping or tying, pouring or cutting, greeting a visitor), together with the enhancement of coordination, concentration, understanding […]