Welcome to Dublin Montessori Academy - Preschool and Kindergarten!
For 33 years Dublin Montessori Academy - Preschool and Kindergarten has been fostering the development of the whole child by providing intellectually rich and stimulating curriculum in a peaceful and caring environment.
A Full Member with American Montessori Association, Dublin Montessori Academy goes beyond AMS rigorous standards of excellence by ensuring that all our classrooms have a full set of classical Montessori materials as well as many Montessori-Extension Materials. Importantly, most of our classrooms have two highly experienced AMS trained and certified Montessori teachers.
Dublin Montessori Academy is dedicated to fostering interdependence, academic excellence, imagination, creativity, social and emotional intelligence, self-regulation, peace and self-esteem in our preschoolers and kindergarteners. Our culturally and ethnically diverse community is committed to promoting global awareness and peace.
A Full Member with American Montessori Association, Dublin Montessori Academy goes beyond AMS rigorous standards of excellence by ensuring that all our classrooms have a full set of classical Montessori materials as well as many Montessori-Extension Materials. Importantly, most of our classrooms have two highly experienced AMS trained and certified Montessori teachers.
Dublin Montessori Academy is dedicated to fostering interdependence, academic excellence, imagination, creativity, social and emotional intelligence, self-regulation, peace and self-esteem in our preschoolers and kindergarteners. Our culturally and ethnically diverse community is committed to promoting global awareness and peace.
Why Montessori?
In 2015 there are 23 000 Montessori schools in 110 countries making Montessori the largest global pedagogy.
The rapid growth and adoption of Montessori methodology is a function of its effectiveness, that has been extensively supported by scientific evidence. Among these in 2006 the Science Journal published a rigorous peer-reviewed study, in which, even years after graduating from Montessori preschool/kindergarten program, children did significantly better:
academically: Montessori kids exhibited more advanced math and creativity skills, self expression, and sophistication of language use and writing;
socially: Montessori kids were more collaborative and kind to each other, they engaged in less "ambiguous rough play" and more in "meaningful shared activities" in the playground;
individual mental operations: Montessori kids had dramatically better developed executive functions - ways of self-regulation, self-organization and self-evaluation, ability to plan, strategize, adjust performance and, in overall, to govern themselves.
(Science Journal: "Evaluating Montessori Education")
The rapid growth and adoption of Montessori methodology is a function of its effectiveness, that has been extensively supported by scientific evidence. Among these in 2006 the Science Journal published a rigorous peer-reviewed study, in which, even years after graduating from Montessori preschool/kindergarten program, children did significantly better:
academically: Montessori kids exhibited more advanced math and creativity skills, self expression, and sophistication of language use and writing;
socially: Montessori kids were more collaborative and kind to each other, they engaged in less "ambiguous rough play" and more in "meaningful shared activities" in the playground;
individual mental operations: Montessori kids had dramatically better developed executive functions - ways of self-regulation, self-organization and self-evaluation, ability to plan, strategize, adjust performance and, in overall, to govern themselves.
(Science Journal: "Evaluating Montessori Education")
Montessori Students You May Know
- Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia
- Sergey Brin & Larry Page, founders of Google
- Jeff Bezos, founder & CEO of Amazon
- Yo-yo-ma, cellist & Joshua Bell, violinist
- Beyonce & Taylor Swift, singers
- George Clooney & Helen Hunt, actors
- Julia Child, chef and author
- Katherine Graham, Washington Post editor
- Will Wright, Sims games designer
- Gabriel G Marques - writer, Nobel laureate
- Eric Cornell -physicist, Nobel laureate
Montessori Advocates:
Mahatma Gandhi, Fred Rogers, Bertrand Russell, Buckminster Fuller, Dalai Lama, Sigmund Freud, Alice Waters.
Alexander Graham Bell founded two of the first Montessori schools in the U.S. and Canada.
Thomas Edison founded a Montessori school in the U.S.
Woodrow Wilson created a Montessori classroom in the basement of the White House for his daughter.
Mahatma Gandhi, Fred Rogers, Bertrand Russell, Buckminster Fuller, Dalai Lama, Sigmund Freud, Alice Waters.
Alexander Graham Bell founded two of the first Montessori schools in the U.S. and Canada.
Thomas Edison founded a Montessori school in the U.S.
Woodrow Wilson created a Montessori classroom in the basement of the White House for his daughter.
Montessori in the Media
Wired: Article on Google Co-Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin
“You can’t understand Google unless you know that both Larry and Sergey were Montessori kids...This is baked into how Larry and Sergey approach problems. They are always asking, why should it be like that? It’s the way their brains were programmed early on.” – Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!
Forbes: Is Montessori The Origin Of Google & Amazon?
Guardian UK: How Google’s Larry Page Became a Responsible Entrepreneur
Business Insider: 7 Tech Innovators Who Became Wildly Successful After Attending Montessori School
Forbes: The Future of Education Was Invented in 1906
Wall Street Journal: The Montessori Mafia
Korn/Ferry Institute: What do P. Diddy, Sergey Brin, and Peter Drucker have in common?
Investors.com: Maria Montessori Stands At The Head Of The Class
Harvard Business Review: Montessori Build Innovators
Harvard Business Review: How Do Innovators Think?
Science Journal: Evaluating Montessori Education
Wired: Article on Google Co-Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin
“You can’t understand Google unless you know that both Larry and Sergey were Montessori kids...This is baked into how Larry and Sergey approach problems. They are always asking, why should it be like that? It’s the way their brains were programmed early on.” – Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!
Forbes: Is Montessori The Origin Of Google & Amazon?
Guardian UK: How Google’s Larry Page Became a Responsible Entrepreneur
Business Insider: 7 Tech Innovators Who Became Wildly Successful After Attending Montessori School
Forbes: The Future of Education Was Invented in 1906
Wall Street Journal: The Montessori Mafia
Korn/Ferry Institute: What do P. Diddy, Sergey Brin, and Peter Drucker have in common?
Investors.com: Maria Montessori Stands At The Head Of The Class
Harvard Business Review: Montessori Build Innovators
Harvard Business Review: How Do Innovators Think?
Science Journal: Evaluating Montessori Education
Talks and Videos
Animated introduction to Trevor Eissler's book "Montessori Madness!"
Superwoman Was Already Here! A parent view on Montessori education benefit.
This short cartoon making a “parent-to-parent argument for Montessori education.”
American Montessori Society Videos.
TED talk by Will Wright, Montessori Alum and Creator of SimCity & Spore
A Montessori education prepares children to think creatively and rigorously, and helps develop the all-important executive functions of attention, working memory, inhibitory control, and flexibility. This Harvard-produced video discusses the importance of executive functions.
TED talk: 5 connections that will change children’s lives by Laura Jana
Montessori Education and Higher Order Cognitive Functions
In this highly visual, rapid-paced and entertaining talk, neuroscientist Dr. Hughes describes how Maria Montessori's brain-based approach to education provides an unparalleled foundation for the development of academic, social, and executive functions critical for advanced problem solving and lifetime success.
Montessori: Why not?
In this most watched TED talk Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
In yet another TED talk Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish — and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational "death valley" we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility.
Finally in this poignant, funny TED talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning — creating conditions where kids' natural talents can flourish.
In yet another TED talk Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish — and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational "death valley" we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility.
Finally in this poignant, funny TED talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning — creating conditions where kids' natural talents can flourish.
