Montessori Conference Handouts — Brain Research and the Enriched Environment
Someone shared this link to some handouts from a Montessori conference (American Montessori Society). I have really enjoyed the one related to brain development. I *really* enjoyed the book Magic Trees of the Mind, which talks about the development of the brain and how various connections (dendrites) are formed and then “pruned” as a child ages. The handouts I was reading reinforced some of the things I had learned in...