#learn from peers

[themontessoriacademyofarlington]

Mentorship in the Montessori Classroom

Among the many benefits of a mixed-age classroom is the chance for older students to become mentors to their peers. This not only builds confidence and leadership skills, but reinforces their previous knowledge when they are able to pass it on to others. In the infant and toddler classrooms, this happens naturally as the younger students often enjoy, and even seek out their older peers to observe their work. As they transition to the Early Childhood classroom, they are given the chance to give lessons and quiz each others' knowledge. In one picture, one student is reading puzzle sight words from the stack so that another student can find them solely by sound. In another picture, one older student gives a lesson on tik-tac-toe to some younger peers while on in the outdoor classroom. A sixth grader even had the opportunity to mentor some Early Childhood students while handling their classroom hermit crab. These experiences are incredibly valuable and enrich our school's sense of community and cooperation.

[mechncheese]

Science AU Thundercracker model by @heliotr0pic ! THANK YOU AGAIN OH MY GOD HE’S BEEN SO FUN TO POSE AND PLAY WITH, GENUINELY SUCH A WELL-MADE AND BEAUTIFUL MODEL !! When I get a handle on Blender Animation I will make him move and groove ! imagine he's running from a fusion cannon blast in the last one BAHAHA

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 81

Danny blinked at the small children Ellie was holding the hand of, looking quite proud of herself. The small children- between ten and twelve so somewhere similar to Ellie’s age- who both practically stank of magic and Gods. 

He took a deep breath, pinching the bridge of his nose even as Dan cackled while opening the door more to let them inside. “Alright, what’s your name, kids?”

“B-billy…um, Billy Batson...” “‘m Percy! Percy Jackson.” 

“Nice to meet you two- any idea where in your family you have a god or two, because one of you definitely smells like Zeus and I’m pretty sure Poseidon and I am not dealing with either of my half-brothers.” 

[fumifooms]

What if we were both magic prodigies and it otherized us in different ways and we devoted ourselves to protecting a family member who has general other goals & priorities. What if we both did self-sacrifical devotion in opposite ways.

What if we were dark mirrors of each other and where I've grown overcontrolling you've grown complacent. What if, bought as a servant into a pretty loving home, ownership and control is what love looks like to me, and to you neglected and lonely growing up, love is gratefully taking any scraps of it you’re lent.

By belonging to someone, even if she comes back injured or fails at finding Delgal, she feels like she belongs and is cherished, by owning someone he feels safe in them not leaving him.

She’s what’s tethering him do you see… And he’s the only thing giving her direction and purpose in her state. She needs a compass and he needs a support.

They’re both so out of it 😭 It’s the weirdly intense and unearned mutual trust and reliance on each other?? They’re each other’s weird little comfort codependent teddy bear. Or at least they were headed towards that before SHE DIED THEN HE DIED THEN THEY BOTH FORGOT ABOUT EACH OTHER AND NEVER MET EVER AGAIN. Though she’s also the guard attack hound keeping him safe… And vice versa he heals her and can rewrite her very being with just one wave of his hand. They’re both so so mentally and physically vulnerable both but they cling onto each other. They can’t perceive things accurately but despite it all someway somehow they stumble into something closer to resembling companionship just before they both die. Falin is just that kind and Thistle is just that lonely. Overworked.

We both haven’t lived for ourselves in a very long time, haven’t we.

They both have a similar devotion to the people they love but again the difference is that Thistle starts overtsepping while Falin is self-effacing. The other difference between them is that people care about Falin <3 People have given up on Thistle long ago, and he has given people reasons to, while people refuse to give up on Falin. Yaad has a mini arc about it dw about it it’s ok he’s not all alone in the end 😭😭 He reached out for Marcille’s hand but they already all wanted to help him, they just had to be given the chance to, Yaad just had to be given the chance to, it’s okay I’m okay

Hey what if we learned to get in touch with our own identity and the world around us and living in the present again through being in the worst codependent situationship ever.

Falin and Thistle sitting in a tree, sucking on flowers together because they’re h-u-n-g-r-y 💕💕💕

I bet he’s only ever thought of flowers as useless ornaments. Weak weeds. But she shows him they’re tasty and useful and good and pretty in their own right too and deserve existing without proving their worth and waaa <33 Thistles…... Did you know thistles taste sweet if you remove the thorns and eat them?

"Even as a chimera, her kind nature remains" you can’t suppress her in the way that matters. You can’t soothe him in the way that matters. It’s doomed. You’re doomed. It’s all doomed. Save me.

[bookishjules]

thinking about amy and how much she's matured since losing sophie and everything that's happened since, how this bratty little sister became the trusted keeper of sophie's secrets, how their relationship has evolved because of this innate difference they grew up without a clue of, and how amy could never be a part of her sister's world, despite the fascination she has for it.

thinking about rex. about the maturing he'll have to do very soon, about the distance that being talentless will put between him and his siblings, how their relationship will evolve, how it will always feel like they belong in the elven world more than he does because of something he can't change.

thinking about the very yin and yang looking picture this paints, when you put them up next to each other.

[rimeswithpurple]

Keep them on.

Keep the Skate On by @you-remind-me-of-the-babe has lived rent free in my head for months! I loved the idea of Baz in over the top skates and it's been on my wish list of things to draw for a while.

The 2nd part of my artwork is below the cut!

[d0d0-b0i]

it really feels strange that you can just straight up not do things if you choose to. went home instead of going to a class and the gods didnt strike me down for my negligence. what the hell?

[mikodrawnnarratives]

Dragon!Maggie/Princess Evie and Prince Max my beloved

the concept has my heart, has no backing in canon, and i don't care

He's her treasure hiss go away insert cat growling noises

[dollivication]

i yearn for a good giggle… can yu guys tell me what your guys’ reactions were when yu 1st discovered me or how yu found me… :3

[themontessoriacademyofarlington]

Multi-age Classrooms and Collaboration

According to Dr. Maria Montessori, as children pass through the planes of development, they begin to develop certain attributes and needs. Each period of transformation is taken into consideration in the Montessori classroom, where children are grouped according to their plane of development to maximize the child’s learning.

In each mixed age classroom, the older students have the opportunity to become mentors to the younger students. These mentors help to teach their mentees concepts and ideas that are more advanced. This form of peer-to-peer learning is beneficial to the mentor and the mentee, as both of them gain skills by collaborating with one another. Teaching the younger students helps the older students reinforce their own knowledge base and gain leadership skills, while the younger students have even more opportunities for mentorship from their peers as well as the adult guides.

Having the opportunity to interact with other children, who are either younger or older, can help a child develop important social skills. Furthermore, by being around children of different ages, they are exposed to three or more levels of all subject areas. This constant cognitive stimulation sparks a greater and more organic interest in learning.

[transxfiles]

we need to abolish the sex binary now and i mean it

[stormyoceans]

LINE READING SO DEVASTATING I NEED TO DIE ABOUT IT

[sorrcha]

(weakly) zoo job sure is going great

[ear-motif]

is it time to start treating adhd like the neurodevelopmental disorder it is instead of a collection of nasty habits and quirky personality traits or do we just wanna stay here for another 10 years

[max1461]

catch me working smarter not harder, sucker

Jokes on you, I learned 80% of the linguistics I know from reading grammars/random papers for the purpose of conlanging.

[official-sonic-team]

it’s so important to me when optimus and hot rod don’t have a mentor mentee relationship and optimus would never in a million years actively chose him to lead the autobots. i feel like that’s where a lot of other successors fail in appeal to me- like hot shot or smokescreen- because the matrix is essentially gifted to them.