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Montessori Technique: Questioning
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| “…teacher asking the child something …often used to resolve fantasy misbehavior.” |
Lee Havis from GMT , p.3 |
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| Asking a question e.g., “What are you doing?”, can often stimulate constructive thinking in children, perhaps initiating some useful or necessary interaction to resolve some fantasy misbehavior. Usually, this questioning begins a verbal dialogue, which you can follow up with further questions, reflective language and clear direction, to gently return children to present-moment reality. When verbal conversation is still not sufficient, you may then have to interact physically with children using the heavy polishing tool of cooperative touching. |
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