A History of Excellence
For over 40 years, our Montessori have provided child-centred education to thousands of children in the Greater Toronto Area. Agincourt Montessori School is located in Scarborough, Ontario in the neighborhood of Agincourt. We are accredited with the Canadian Council of Montessori Administrators (CCMA), so you can be sure that we are an authentic and credible Montessori school. Our teachers are Montessori trained, and our classrooms have the mixed age groups that are fundamental to the Montessori way of teaching.
Our programs help your child learn and excel with ease, in an environment that's safe, and perfectly suited to their individual needs. We help your child build self-confidence, healthy self-esteem, and independent thinking that is so crucial in today's world. Your child's academic, social, and emotional development is very important to us. We believe that learning is a joyful adventure!
Our Montessori Programs
We are very proud of the programming we offer our students:
The Casa Classroom (Ages 2.5 to 6)
Due to the advanced Montessori materials, both our Casa and our elementary children make significant academic progress. However, we don’t set out to create little geniuses. We set out to help children reach their potential, whatever that potential might be!
Maria Montessori understood that we cannot educate a child. In order for school to be successful, the child must educate himself. A truly educated individual never stops learning. A true education is fluid and ongoing. It is a living thing that continues long after the last year of traditional schooling. As a result, the goal of early childhood education shouldn’t be to fill a child’s mind with myriad facts, but to create in the child a love of knowledge and learning.
This is why our students are taught to work and think independently, why we encourage initiative and curiosity. It is for this reason that the classroom is filled with books, maps, and other tools of learning - so that your child can discover the pleasure of constructive work.
The Casa classroom can be divided into 5 areas:
- Practical Life Activities
- Sensorial Activities
- Language
- Mathematics
- Art, Music and Culture
* The only prerequisite for the Casa Program is that your child must be toilet trained. If you enrolled your child in the Toddler Program, we help with toilet training.
The Elementary Classroom (Grades 1 to 3)
Each child, from their first day at school, is an individual with his or her own strengths and abilities. Whereas one child will thirst to learn as much math and science as possible, another may prefer to draw pictures and write a play. We are all different!
The teacher’s job is to direct, when necessary, so that your child can develop his strengths naturally and quickly, but also grow to understand and learn those things that don’t come as easily.
The elementary teacher sees her group of students as individuals, regardless of their ‘grade’. A Montessori teacher is trained to work with each and every child. The curriculum supports this kind of learning and the children naturally grow in this environment.
Think about a regular classroom with twenty children. Are all children working at the same level? Are the needs of each and every child are being met? Can you imagine the frustration of the ‘math oriented’ child who already understood the concept of multiplication before the lesson began? Can you imagine the frustration of the ‘language oriented’ student who really doesn’t get what’s happening during that same lesson on multiplication?
By virtue of the curriculum and the math materials alone, a teacher in a regular classroom will struggle, no matter his experience, competence or enthusiasm, to create a program that meets each child’s needs. But in a Montessori classroom, we never have to face that struggle. Our students never have to face it either.
