Montessori Education in Preschool Period Erasmus Project

Project Title

Montessori Education in Preschool Period

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); Early childhood education and care; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The main goal of our project partner schools for pre-school education is to provide sound education foundations for our 4-6-year-old children.

In all partner schools;
-By using concrete educational materials, the educational environment has been created for children to learn by living and doing.
-Montessori education units consisting of daily life, sensory, mathematics, language, and cosmic education tools have been created to develop the basic skills of our children in creativity, language, self-care, mathematics, and science.

In Asım Kocabıyık Kindergarten, as Montessori materials are not designed according to children’s interests and needs and educational activities that encourage children to use Montessori materials, the children participating in Montessori education, such as language, self-care, independence, taking part in the group, interest in mathematics and science skills were not developed and Montessori training activities were terminated.

In order to apply Montessori methods, techniques, which are used as a common method in European countries in developing basic skills of preschool children in creativity, language, self-care, mathematics and science in the classrooms; cooperation with 4 preschool education institutions from 4 European countries based in Turkey, Italy, Slovenia and Macedonia that are possessed of Montessori materials, that have different experiences about the problems and solutions in the application of Montessori education method will be made.

Within the scope of cooperation between 4 preschool education institutions;
-Montessori materials will be designed in line with children’s interests and needs and the classroom environment will be updated.
-The work that appeals to children will be selected and materials will be added to and removed from the classroom to facilitate their independence.
– Individual development of children will be evaluated.
-The method of intervention to the use of materials will be taught
– Children’s interests will be directed to Montessori activities in the classroom.
-We will share experience in preparing Montessori activities where daily life, sensory, mathematics, language, and science education materials will be used.

As a result of the cooperation with experienced institutions in applying Montessori teaching methods, our goals are as follows:
-Using the Montessori units, we established in our classes in an efficient way.
-To give our teachers the ability to prepare and apply Montessori training activities.
-To provide our children with basic skills in the fields of language, daily life, self-care, mathematics, and science by including our children in a training process using Montessori materials.
-A booklet of Montessori class design examples is to ensure that at least 120 Montessori activities and a “Preschool Montessori education plan” are prepared, which include the use of daily life, sensory, mathematics, language, science materials.

Project activities will last 24 months. 4 transnational staff training activities will be organized to prepare Montessori class material, daily life, sensory, mathematics, language, and science education departments and Montessori training plan. 4 pre-school teachers and 1 English teacher from each country will participate in all transnational educational activities.

C1- A booklet included Montessori class design. 20 Montessori activities in the 1st and 2nd months of the academic year will be prepared.
C2- Daily life, 40 Montessori activities to be implemented in the Sensory unit will be prepared.
C3- 60 Montessori activities to be applied in Mathematics, Language and the cosmic education department will be prepared.
In C4, a “Preschool Montessori education plan” will be prepared, which includes at least 180 teaching hours to be implemented during one academic year in partner schools.

Activities prepared within the scope of the project will be implemented by giving education to students in all schools. The implementation of the activities in partner schools:
– An educational environment will be created in all of our schools where children will learn by doing, living, trying.
-The use of concrete and realistic teaching materials in group games will improve our children’s creativity and social skills.
-Language-developing activities will prepare our children for reading and writing
– Mathematical activities will support the recognition of numbers, counting, matching, and skills of four operations
-Cosmic educational activities will increase children’s interest in science
-With sense education, children will actively use their five senses
-Daily life activities will improve children’s self-care skills.

Improving the basic skills of children will contribute to the achievement of the common goal of the partner schools in “To provide our children with strong educational foundations in the preschool period”.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 80088 Eur

Project Coordinator

ASIM KOCABIYIK ANAOKULU & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Osnovna sola Orehek Kranj
• JOUDG “Breshia”
• DIREZIONE DIDATTICA “III CIRCOLO BALDO BONSIGNORE”