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Accreditation
MST is fully accredited by
The International Montessori Council.
Membership
MST is a member of
The Japan Council of International Schools (JCIS).
The Elementary Montessori Programme
For ages 6 to 12
The elementary programme provides a full expression of the Montessori principles of self-directed, individualised learning in a truly integrated curriculum. By building on the basic skills acquired in the 3 to 6 programme, the elementary child now moves from concrete to abstract reasoning.
By the time students graduate from the elementary programme, they have evolved from four-year-olds manipulating sandpaper letters, golden beads and sound cylinders into twelve-year-olds dissecting owl pellets, reciting Shakespeare and calculating the squares of binomials and trinomials. The environment and curriculum offers the following:
- Integration of the arts, sciences, geography, history and language that evokes the native imagination and abstraction of the elementary child.
- Presentation of knowledge as part of a large-scale narrative that unfolds the origins of the earth, life, human communities, and modern history, always in the context of the wholeness of life.
- Presentation of the formal scientific language of zoology, botany, anthropology, geography, geology, etc., exposing the child to accurate, organized information and respecting the child’s intelligence and interests.
- The use of timelines, pictures, charts, and other visual aids to provide a linguistic and visual overview of the first principles of each discipline.
- A mathematics curriculum presented with concrete materials that simultaneously reveal the correlations between arithmetic, geometric, and algebra in a manner that links abstract concepts to the physical universe.
- Montessori-trained adults who are “enlightened generalists” — teachers who are able to integrate the teaching of all subjects, not as isolated disciplines, but as part of a whole intellectual tradition.
- Emphasis on open-ended research and in-depth study using primary and secondary sources framed by logical argument and the scientific method.
- “Going out” to make use of community resources beyond the four walls of the classroom.
The Curriculum page has more detailed explanations of the main areas of study.
