Private Montessori School in Greensboro, NC

Greensboro Montessori School:
Located in Greensboro, Guilford County, Northern Carolina, Greensboro Montessori School provides programs for children from nurrsery age through 8th grade. At The Greensboro Montessori School, children and their families share in a stimulating and nurturing educational experience, built upon the core values of respect, independence, and responsibility. The Greensboro Montessori School curriculum is based on respect for the child who is 18 months through 14 years of age.

Infant (4 to 18 months) and Toddler (18 months to 3 years):
Our Infant and Toddler programs are based on a blend of the Montessori approach and the philosophy expressed by child therapist, lecturer, and consultant, Magda Gerber. Gerber’s approach, known as the Resource for Infant Educarers, or RIE, is a commonsensical, humanistic approach to educating and caring for the infant. Just as Maria Montessori understood the need to consider all the needs of a child when educating him, Gerber emphasizes how educating and caring for the infant are inseparable. She coined the word “educarer” to define the role of the adult caregiver.

Primary Program (3 to 6 years):
The goal of the Primary program at Greensboro Montessori School is to help the child develop independence and discipline from within while learning academic and life skills. Children in this program explore basic concepts and discover their own uniqueness in a carefully prepared environment that provides developmentally appropriate materials and activities, and the right balance of freedom and limits.

Lower Elementary (6 to 9 years):
Children 6 to 9 years of age are inquisitive about the world around them and they are ready to develop and refine the skills necessary for inquiry. The Lower Elementary children at The Greensboro Montessori School study an integrated curriculum which builds skills in the core areas of reading, writing, and math as they explore cultural subjects such as physical science, biology, geography, history, social studies and Spanish. Manipulative materials support learning in all subject areas.

Upper Elementary (9 to 12 years):
The Upper Elementary Curriculum builds upon and extends that of the Lower Elementary Curriculum. Children, are developmentally still inquisitive, community oriented, and universally aware. They continue to question all aspects of the world in which they live, and use their minds to reason and to conduct research, yet, their reasoning may also become more abstract and their research more specific.

In accordance, the curriculum does, too. Lessons may range from the history of mathematics to the physics of flight, mineralogy, chemistry, algebra, geometry, and literature, to name a few.

Middle School (12 to 14 years):
The Middle School program is designed to support students academically, personally and socially during their transition into adolescence. In addition to the core academic curriculum of reading, math, science and social stidies, GMS offers a full range of Liberal Arts courses for Middle School students, including music, visual arts, and Spanish language and culture. An exciting aspect of the music program offered to Middle School students is the exploration of music recording, sound engineering and film making.

The Spanish language and culture program involves all Middle School students in Spanish classes four times per week. By 9th grade students are ready to study advanced level Spanish and subsequently they may be ready to study another language.

Additional class time is set aside each week for the development and application of computer skills culminating in each eighth grade student taking the NC Computer Competency Exam.