Montessori
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Traditional
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- Emphasis on Cognitive and Social Development
- Teacher has guiding role
- Environment and method encourage self- discipline
- Mainly individual instruction
- Mixed age groups
- Grouping encourages children to teach and collaborate
- Child chooses own work
- Child discovers own concepts from self-teaching materials
- Child is allocated time to work on and complete lesson
- Child sets own learning pace
- Child spots own errors from feedback of material
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- Emphasis on Rote Learning and Social Behavior
- Teacher controls classroom
- Teacher acts as primary enforcer of discipline
- Mainly group instruction
- Same age groups
- Teaching is done by the teacher; collaboration is discouraged
- Curriculum structured for child
- Child is guided to concepts by the teacher
- Child generally allotted specific time for work
- Instruction pace set by the group
- Errors in the child’s work are highlighted by the teacher
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