Dandy Lion Montessori
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MISSION
Our Mission at Dandy Lion Montessori School is simply to serve the children of the exceptional parents in our community, who are truly concerned about the future of their children in these uncertain times. We provide our students with the very best start in their lifelong learning adventure, by implementing an authentic Montessori program, which the International Association of Progressive Montessori (IAPM) is respected for worldwide. We excel in maintaining a specially prepared educational environment for their budding minds to explore and utilize in developing critical thinking skills.
Beyond providing a full complement of authentic Montessori didactic materials, and genuinely respecting children engaged in the awe-inspiring process of developing a unique mind of their own, we provide a safe, clean, orderly, and loving atmosphere devoid of judgmental stress. The serene classrooms are conducive to the atmosphere of concentration, which is essential to organize a young mind to comprehend the incredible volume of information they will encounter as joyful diligent learners in the 21st Century.
We acknowledge that our role as educators in this reality-based environment is critical to the child obtaining the most benefit from it. It is our job to help the child learn how to think - not what to think. We welcome the challenge and always give it our best effort, for the sake of the children entrusted to our care, and in appreciation of the parents who select our school.
HISTORY
The Dandy Lion Preschool was established in 1981 by the Veness family, and has earned an excellent reputation while serving this community for the past twenty-eight years. The Veness’ retired in November of 1996 when Ann Balasuriya and Dave Hunter purchased the school to provide a location for Ann’s Montessori Teacher-Training Institute on the Central Coast. By January of 1997, the Rainbow Room was converted into a Montessori Prepared Environment and the name of the school was slightly revised to Dandy Lion Montessori School to reflect the change to a Montessori program.
In early 1998, the full kitchen was removed from the Sunshine Room and it too was converted to a lovely Montessori classroom. When the 98/99 academic year began, both classrooms were fully functioning Montessori classes. With little advertising, Dandy Lion has maintained a stellar word-of-mouth reputation, for execellence as an authentic Montessori Program. and receives great feedback on the success of our graduates from parents, grandparents, and other schools. Dave retired several years ago from active administration, although he continues to support us by revising and printing our classroom materials, and updating our website.
STAFF
All staff members have been carefully selected for their training, credentials, competence, loving attitude towards children, and personal goals to achieve excellence in their chosen profession. We are blessed with stability, as all have worked here for many years. Ann, our director, is also the Executive Director of the International Association of Progressive Montessori, a professional Montessori association. She has 36 years of Montessori experience teaching, administrating, establishing schools, and teacher training centers. She has served on the board and on the commission of MACTE, the Montessori Accreditation Council for Teacher Education and still works as a teacher educator and Montessori consultant. She personally trained all of the staff over the years to ensure the quality she desired. Cathy Hanely is the head teacher in the Sunshine room, and Rhonda Eskew is head teacher in the Rainbow room. Both had extensive experience and were fully qualified directors of other preschools, before acquiring an additional 30 Early Childhood Education (ECE) units in earning their Montessori Teacher diplomas. Cathy opens the school for morning childcare and Rhonda manages the afternoon childcare program. Cyndi Burke is our assistant teacher.
PROGRAM
Education at Dandy Lion Montessori School follows a developmental approach that strives to educate the whole child, establishes a solid foundation, and inspires a lifelong joy in learning. The program is designed to promote intellectual growth, artistic creativity, critical thinking skills, social responsibility, flexibility, and preparedness for the fast changing life our children face in the future. We pride ourselves on offering an excellent program in a loving relaxed atmosphere that respects the child’s pace and interests.
LIST OF STAFF
Ann Balasuriya - School Director and Teacher Trainer
Cathy Hanley - Head Teacher - Sunshine Room
Rhonda Eskew - Head Teacher - Rainbow Room
Cyndi Burke - Assistant Teacher
EDUCATION PROGRAM
We welcome you to the Dandy Lion Montessori School. We hope you will enjoy your visit, have all your questions answered, and receive all the information you need to help you make the decision to enroll your child in our school.
The Dandy Lion Montessori School is a non-denominational private school serving the educational needs of children aged 2 ½ to 6 years. The school follows principles that develop an identifiable mark of quality and excellence in education.
PHILOSOPHY:
We are committed to the philosophy of authentic Montessori education. We believe that facilitating the intellectual, physical, emotional, and socio-spiritual development of the child is essential to the harmonious development of character and the progress of the individual and therefore mankind. The philosophy of the program is based on truth in learning. No ideological interpretation is insinuated into the curriculum.
The children are given facts, encouraged to use critical thinking and arrive at their own conclusions. On a daily basis the children experience cause and effect. They learn through activities with concrete materials in an atmosphere of trust and respect for their efforts. We follow the rule set out by Dr. Montessori: "Don't let the child risk failure until he has experienced success many times." Thus, we empower him/her to take on greater challenges.
OUR GOALS:
Our primary goal has always been to earn and maintain the reputation as the very best preschool in our community, with the highest paid professional staff of any private school in the area. We achieved that status in our first year as a Montessori school, and work hard to maintain it.
We do not spend a lot of money on advertising, and count on satisfied parents to disseminate our reputation by word-of-mouth. Considering it our best promotion, we continue to endeavor to earn parent's trust and goodwill.
Valuing diversity in our program, we welcome working parents as well as those who value a Montessori program for educational reasons; and unlike most authentic Montessori schools, we welcome EOC subsidized children.
CHILD-CENTERED PROGRAMS:
Our programs are geared to meet the needs of each child on an individual basis with emphasis being placed on the child’s uniqueness. We provide a wide range of activities from which the child may select, thereby developing his independence by making decisions. The child enjoys a freedom, which encourages him to express his creative abilities and master the skills necessary to build self-confidence and good self-esteem. This freedom is experienced within a structured framework established by the teacher with limits to provide security for the child and insure progress in all areas of his/her development. Discipline is established in a firm but loving way, always emphasizing the positive and by using consistency in reinforcing simple basic ground rules.
PROGRAM:
The aim of our educational program is to provide the scientifically prepared environment for the complete development of the potentialities of each individual child. Essential to this development is that the child should feel secure and at ease. For this reason the classrooms are especially adapted to child’s size and provide an attractive, bright and warm atmosphere in which the child can feel at home.
Because human beings, in the state of development, are capable of growth at four different levels: (1) motor-muscular, (2) intellectual, (3) emotional, and (4) socio-spiritual, the class is a prepared environment which includes all conditions, materials and activities conducive to the development of the child at each of these levels. This requires that children be grouped in what is known as “Family Grouping” for ages 2 1/2 to 6 years. This also requires that the schedule of the day be organized as an “Integrated Day” of free activities. This offers the child opportunities to choose among several possibilities of being constructively and creatively active. It is through this free choice that a child develops his personal inititive and sense of responsibility toward himself, the other children, and his environment.
The task of the teacher in our classroom is more that of guide than that of instructor. This is why the teacher is normally called the directress. Her main function is to be a link between the child and the learning activities, by means of which the child has the opportunity of developing his individual potentialities to the utmost, under the guidence of a teacher who understands his needs. Adapted to the children’s age group and stage of development, our classrooms are lovingly prepared by the teacher to meet the neeeds of your child. They are spotlessly clean, orderly, full of inspirational interesting activities, creative and ready for joyfull learning in a secure setting, both indoosr and outdoors.
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