Bellevue, WA
Cougar Mountain Montessori Schools

Director's Description to School's Approach to Discipline

The growth of self-discipline in the child is a primary goal of Montessori education. Self-discipline is attained at school by clearly establishing limits and by organizing the child's environment to minimize frustration, disorganization, and the need for adult assistance. The teacher's job is to encourage the children to remain occupied and interested. We like to remind our parents that children need equally clear limits and expectations in their home if they are to attain self-discipline.

Cooperative and respectful behavior is required of staff toward children and of children toward staff and each other. Specifically, foul language and violent behavior toward others is not accepted. If a child does not respond to a positive suggestion or redirection, he or she may be assigned to remain next to a staff member for a time, or near another child who can model the correct behavior.

If this does not suffice, the child may need to have "time out" by sitting in a quiet part of the room, unable to use the materials until he or she has become calm. Time outs, if implemented, are limited to one minute per year of the child's age.

No corporal punishment is used at school.

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