International Montessori Schools

Enroll today at International Montessori Schools to give your child the gift of a wonderful early childhood experience!! Call 484-661-0584 to schedule a tour!!

“The exercises of Practical Life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education.” - Dr Montessori

IMS Malvern: A child washing dishes at IMS Malvern during the work period.

“The child has to acquire physical independence by being self-sufficient; he must become of independent will be using in freedom his own power of choice; he must become capable of independent thought by working alone without interruption. The child’s development follows a path of successive stages of independence.”
Dr. Maria Montessori | The Absorbent Mind, p. 257

IMS West Chester: A child independently working on wearing her indoor shoes in the morning.

“To have a vision of the cosmic plan, in which every form of life depends on directed movements which have effects beyond their conscious aim, is to understand the child’s work and be able to guide it better.”
— Maria Montessori

IMS Paoli: Children observing the duck and drake couple at IMS Paoli.

“Since it has been seen to be necessary to give so much to the child, let us give him a vision of the whole universe. The universe is an imposing reality, and an answer to all questions.”
Dr. Maria Montessori | To Educate the Human Potential, p. 5

IMS West Chester: A child is working on the USA puzzle map during his work period at IMS West Chester. He is using the control chart that is acting as a guide as he is working on the puzzle.

“The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.”- Dr. Montessori

IMS West Chester: A child learning to use a button frame during the work period at IMS West Chester thereby developing his independence.

Enroll today at IMS West Chester to give your child the gift of a wonderful early childhood experience!!
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“Education is not something which a teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. It is not acquired by listening to words, but in virtue of experiences in which the child acts on his environment. “- Dr. Montessori

IMS West Chester: Chikdren exploring the outdoor environment at IMS West Chester!!

Movement of the hand is essential. Little children revealed that the development of the mind is stimulated by the movement of the hands. The hand is the instrument of the intelligence. The child needs to manipulate objects and to gain experience by touching and handling.

Maria Montessori, The 1946 London Lectures, p. 36

“Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.” - Dr. Maria Montessori

IMS Paoli: A child very excited to see a chicken egg at IMS Paoli campus.

“Since it has been seen to be necessary to give so much to the child, let us give him a vision of the whole universe. The universe is an imposing reality, and an answer to all questions.”
Dr. Maria Montessori | To Educate the Human Potential, p. 5

IMS Paoli: Children learning about the duck life cycle at IMS Paoli.

“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”- Dr. Montessori
IMS Chester: Children working on easel painting during the end of year picnic at IMS West Chester.

Children learning all about beekeeping during the summer camp at IMS Paoli.

Children learning yoga poses during the summer camp at IMS Paoli!!

A child exploring a book during the infant camp at Malvern!!

“Children acquire knowledge through experience in the environment.” —The 1946 London Lectures

Toddlers at IMS Paoli watching teachers make bouncy balls during the science session at summer camp!!

Children enjoyin their circle time at IMS Paoli Summer camp!!

“Education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.”
- Dr. Montessori

IMS Paoli: Toddlers practicing some yoga poses during the summer camp at Paoli!!

“The hand is the instrument of intelligence. The child needs to manipulate objects and to gain experience by touching and handling. ” —The 1946 London Lectures

IMS Paoli: Children learning about chemical reactions during the summer camp at Paoli.

“Free activity makes children happy. We can see how happy they are, but it is not the fact that they are happy that is important; the important thing is that a child can construct a man through this free activity. ”- Dr. Maria Montessori

“If teaching is to be effective with young children, it must assist them to advance on the way to independence. It must initiate them into those kinds of activities, which they can perform themselves. We must help them to learn how to walk without assistance, to run, to go up and down the stairs, to pick up fallen objects, to dress and undress, to wash themselves, to express their needs, and to attempt to satisfy their desires through their own efforts. All this is part of an education for independence." - Maria Montessori, The Discovery of the Child

Enroll today at International Montessori Schools for the Fall 23-24 school year!! Call 484-661-0584 to schedule an in-person tour of the campus.

IMS West Chester: Children engaged in an art activity along with the Head of Schools, Ms. Raife Cebeci during the end of year picnic at IMS West Chester!!

“This system in which a child is constantly moving object; with his hands and actively exercising his senses, also takes into account a child's special aptitude for mathematics. When they leave the material, the children very easily reach the point where they wish to write out the operation. They thus carry out an abstract mental operation and acquire a kind of natural and spontaneous inclination for mental calculations.” Dr. Maria Montessori

IMS West Chester: Child is working on an activities that deals with ordering numbers.

“In our schools we allow the children to use their spontaneous activity by offering them objects which call for movements appropriate to their stage of development; in this way they learn through doing. This is their work, and their concentration and perseverance is astonishing. ” Dr. Maria Montessori

IMS Malvern: Child is displaying great concentration as he is participating in a activity that is refining his motor skills .

A child who concentrates is immensely happy. - Dr. Maria Montessori

Enroll today at International Montessori Schools!! Call us at 484-661-0584 to schedule a tour.

Enroll today at International Montessori Schools!! Call 484-661-0584 to schedule an in-person tour!

“ If teaching is to be effective with young children, it must assist them to advance on the way to independence. It must initiate them into those kinds of activities, which they can perform themselves. We must help them to learn how to walk without assistance, to run, to go up and down the stairs, to pick up fallen objects, to dress and undress, to wash themselves, to express their needs, and to attempt to satisfy their desires through their own efforts. All this is part of an education for independence." - Maria Montessori, The Discovery of the Child

IMS West Chester: Children in the pre-primary classroom working on a daily life activity.

Garden Night at International Montessori Schools Paoli 🎉🎉

“Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy to interest them in taking care of plants and especially of animals. Nothing awakens foresight in a small child such as this. When he knows that animals have need of him, that little plants will dry up if he does not water them, he binds together with a new thread of love today's passing moments with those of the morrow.” Dr. Maria Montessori

Our lovely, 100% safe, environmentally-friendly weed-killing system! IMSchools students care for chickens at all campuses and for ducks at West Chester and Paoli sites.

"The teacher has two tasks: to lead the children to concentration and to help them in their development afterwards.” Dr. Maria Montessori

IMS Royersford: The teacher is guiding the child through a language activity.

“The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the
very essence of a useful education.” Dr Maria Montessori

IMS West Chester: Children are working on a practical life activity refining their motor skills as they are mixing.

“The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self.” Dr. Maria Montessori

IMS Royersford: Child is independently working on an art project

“Movement of the hand is essential. Little children revealed that the development of the mind is stimulated by the movement of the hands. The hand is the instrument of the intelligence. The child needs to manipulate objects and to gain experience by touching and handling. ” Dr. Maria Montessori

IMS Malvern: Child is utilizing his cognitive and fine motor skills as he completes his puzzle.

“The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence,
almost religious dignity." Dr. Maria Montessori

IMS Paoli: Child is learning to sort objects that could be recycled.

“Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy to interest them in taking care of plants and especially of animals. Nothing awakens foresight in a small child such as this.” Dr. Maria Montessori

IMS Paoli: Friends observing their new duck and drake couple taking a bath.

“There is great sense of community within the Montessori classroom, where children of different ages work together in an atmosphere of cooperation rather than competitiveness.” Dr. Maria Montessori

IMS Paoli: Children working together on a map activity.

“There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony, and the
beauty in nature.” Dr. Maria Montessori

IMS West Chester: Child enjoying a butterfly’s touch.

“The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the
very essence of a useful education.” Dr Maria Montessori

IMS Malvern: Child participating in a practical life activity using water and soap thereby refining his motor skills and improving his concentration.

“There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony, and the beauty in nature.” Dr. Maria Montessori

IMS Royersford: Children are exploring nature and looking for worms.