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Course Title: Sensorial

Instructor: Donna Wooley


Course Description:
Sensorial education is the base for intellectual education. The student will understand
Montessoris approach to differentiated instruction through the developmental refinement of the
senses. Montessori believed visual, muscular/tactile, olfactory, gustatory and auditory
exploration through the use of concrete materials and experiences enable children to explore the
world via the absorbent mind. Students will learn to identify how to translate a childs sensitivity
for learning into practical application thorough use of the Montessori materials. Students will
understand that a multi-sensory approach to education will benefit all types of learning styles.
Students will learn how to design and implement multi-sensory curriculum into their classroom
environment. Classification and organization of these experiences will allow the child to
internalize concepts resulting in the development of the mathematical mind.

Objectives and Competencies:


The student will be able to:
1. Describe the purpose and psychological importance of sensorial education for the young
child.
2. Demonstrate each sensorial activity successfully.
3. Explain the aims and rationale for each activity, including knowledge of scope and
sequence.
4. Demonstrate the variation and extensions of each exercise.
5. Relate the developmental level of the child to each piece of sensorial apparatus.
6. Explain how the sensorial exercises are related to other areas of the classroom.
Course Outline:
I. Introduction
II.

III.

Visual
Knobbed cylinders
Pink tower
Broad stair
Knobless cylinders
Long rods
Color box 1
Color box 2
Color box 3
Tactile
Stereognostic
Rough and smooth boards
Touch tablets
Fabrics

IV.

Thermic bottles
Baric tablets
Form
Geometric cabinet
Constructive triangles
Binomial cube
Trinomial cube
Superimposed geometric shapes

V. Auditory
Sound cylinders
Bells
VI. Gustatory
Tasting bottles
VII. Olfactory
Smelling bottles

Album Requirements:
1. Rationale - minimum 3 pages
2. Page Protection
3. Tabulation
Title page
Rationale
Presentations (divided into appropriate sections)
Class notes
4. APA style: typed, correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
5. Picture on left, write-up on the right. Each new write-up begins on a new page.
6. Name of student and album on spine.
7. Each individual presentation must be pictured. Pictures must be labeled (such as Exercise I or
final product etc.) and show the appropriate sequence of the presentation
8. Title page with students name, address and phone number and training centers name
address,. Phone number and year
Course Requirements:
1. Attend all lectures and practice sessions
2. Complete Sensorial album
3. Write up all presentations that appear blank in the album according to demonstrations
and lectures given.
4. Presentations should be demonstrated/practiced with the instructor during supervised
practice sessions.

Required Reading:
Class Handouts
Montessori, Maria
The Discovery of the Child Pages 106-148
Montessori, Maria
The Montessori Method
Pages168-184
Tomorrows Child Magazine The Sensorial Experience

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