"Previous research has shown that students who attend Montessori schools foster higher levels of executive functioning skills like self-discipline, autonomy over learning, deep focus, critical reasoning and problem solving."
Montessori environments foster and develop the child as a whole. The academics, although quite impressive, are just a piece of what the children will come away with from the Montessori classroom. The children have been practicing and developing their logical sequencing skills, concentration, problem solving skills and independent thinking. These all contribute to the child when she is ready to work and spend her days in different environments. Parents sometimes worry about their child making transitions to public schools or other new classroom settings. All children take time and space to transition into new environments. Some children adapt easier than others. The few children that do have a difficult time likely would have difficulties with any transition. The majority of our Montessori students are able to think through and make the transition successfully. This doesn't mean the child has no transition at all when going to a new environment, but it does mean that he is able to get settled into his routine and do so successfully without many obstacles. One of the million wonderful attributes about Montessori education is that these higher levels of executive functioning and other attributes will carry with the child into adulthood!
