Maria Montessori Academy and Summer Camp

Academic Year

The Maria Montessori Academy offers an inclusive educational program. Inclusive means that all students in the school, regardless of their weaknesses in any area, become part of the school community. They are included in the feeling of belonging among other students, teachers, and support staff. The Maria Montessori Academy’s main objective is to meet the needs of students with particular Learning Disabilities and to mainstream them into regular high schools. When good inclusion is in place, the child who needs the inclusion does not stand out. The inclusive curriculum includes strong parental involvement, students making choices, and a lot of hands-on and heads-on involvement.

The Maria Montessori Academy provides a clinical curriculum for students in multi-age inclusive classes starting in Grade 3 through Grade 8. Our environment and methods of instruction permits each child to accomplish conventional academic skills. Students are taught the basic subject areas of math, language arts, science and social studies in an approach individually designed to their learning style. Speech and occupational therapy are integrated throughout the curriculum if required. The cost for these therapies is not included in the monthly tuition.

The multi-age inclusive class is completely incorporated and taught by a learning specialist. Our learning specialists in addition to applying the Montessori Method, have also attended the various workshops from Linda Mood-Bell (Seeing Stars for reading and spelling, Visualizing and Verbalizing for reading comprehension, On Cloud Nine Math for mathematics, and LiPS for phonemic awareness), all these techniques successfully address the needs of each child.

Summer Program

Clinical Tutoring in Math, Reading Comprehension, Composition and Spelling:
For students 5 years of age and up. This is a program for children who have been diagnosed with problems in decoding, weak phonemic awareness, reverse sounds and letters within words, processing words, remembering sight words, unable to remember visual patterns, difficulty in comprehending the context, difficulty creating an imaged gestalt (a whole) or weak concept imagery, unorganized and nonspecific writing, problems verbalizing math concepts, and problems solving word problems.

A group of Certified Learning Specialists will provide private and group sessions (4-5 students) from June 20, 2005 through August 12, 2005. For more information about the different methods we use, please call the school’s office at (305)893-5994.

Three (3) day weekly group fee is $200 per student.
Five (5) day weekly group fee is $350 per student.
Private tutoring is $50 per hour.