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Module 6

The true outcome is not simply what you know, but who you become: a guide with greater clarity, insight, and trust in the child’s unfolding development.

 

Ten sessions that bring the programme to completion; exploring the full mathematics curriculum, the guide’s inner work, the silence game, and the long developmental view that sits at the heart of Montessori education.

A module that turns knowledge into understanding and understanding into wisdom.

Module 6 completes the programme by bringing together everything that has come before into a coherent and unified understanding of Montessori practice.

As you explore the full architecture of the Montessori mathematics curriculum, you will also engage with the most important work of all: the ongoing development of the guide. Through reflection, self-awareness, and purposeful practice, you will deepen the qualities that enable you to observe more clearly, respond more thoughtfully, and support each child's development with confidence and care.

This is the heart of Montessori pedagogy; the recognition that as the guide continues to grow, so too does their capacity to serve the child.

Session 10 closes the programme as it should be closed: not with a summary, but with a long view.

Together, we reflect on how the programme itself has unfolded as a three-period lesson for the guide. We return to the child and consider what becomes possible when a child has been truly observed, understood, and supported developmentally over time.

The module concludes with a developmental overview; a portrait of character, initiative, self-direction, and human potential unfolding across the years.

Module 6 is where the separate strands of the programme come together. Observation, work curves, normalisation, language, mathematics, concentration, mentoring, and the guide’s inner work are no longer viewed as separate topics but as interconnected aspects of a single developmental vision.

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WHAT YOU WILL WALK AWAY WITH

By the End of Module 6 You Will Be Able to:

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Articulate the five-group architecture of the Montessori mathematics curriculum and deliver presentations across all five groups.
02
Distinguish between response and reaction in your own practice, and describe the three strands of the guide's inner work;mind, body, and soul, and how these guiding principles lay the foundation for ongoing professional development.
03
Use positive language and open-ended questioning as daily tools in the Children’s House; not as techniques to apply, but as expressions of a way of seeing the child.
04
Complete a full work curve analysis and bespoke programme for a stage-three child, drawing on all the analytical frameworks from across the programme.
05
Adapt Montessori practice for older new children, support diverse learners, set limits with confidence, and trust the child’s capacity for self-correction.
06
Deliver the silence game in its full form, including the indirect preparation, the ten-step approach, and the quality of stillness the guide must embody before they can offer it to the children.
07
Write a developmental overview that communicates character, initiative, perseverance, and self-evaluation, while developing a framework for ongoing personal and professional reflection.

TEN SESSIONS COVERING 

A Complete Arc, Session by Session.

01

The mystery of maths

The architecture of mathematics and Groups One and Two in full

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02

Mathematics groups three, four, and five

Chains, memorisation, and the passage to abstraction

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03

Response practice

The guide’s inner work; mind, body, and soul

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04

Work curve analysis

Reading Nicholas's week and building his bespoke programme from the evidence

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05

Positive language in practice

Using language that empowers children to think independently, solve problems, trust themselves, and respond to challenges with kindness, flexibility, and resilience.

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06

The attentive and present guide

Open questions, offering choice, and the art of letting go

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07

Welcoming older children

Setting limits, supporting diversity, and adapting the programme

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08

Stillness

The guide's inner quiet and the story that gave birth to the silence game

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09

The silence game

Indirect preparation, the Magic Ten, and the quality of silence the guide must embody

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10

Completing the programme

The developmental overview and the long view of character development.

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WHAT’S INCLUDED

This Module Comes With the Following

 

Recorded Videos

10 pre-recorded sessions with a total of approximately 10 hours of Karen coaching a small group of guides.

Key Learning Points

Consolidate the key ideas for every session; useful in team conversations and mentor meetings.

Guide Resources

Copies of slides and depending upon the content, templates, case studies and examples.

Weekly Community Mentoring with Karen

Join our optional live Zoom sessions every Tuesday, 5:00–6:00pm, or Wednesday, 4:30–5:30pm UK time.

Bring your questions, observations and reflections from the programme, and explore how Montessori principles can be applied within your everyday practice. Listen to the experiences of guides around the world, share in open dialogue and deepen your understanding together.

 

This is your opportunity to feel part of a global community and to have Karen alongside you as an ongoing mentor—following and supporting your development, just as we follow the development of the child.

FROM THE COMMUNITY

What Guides Are Saying.

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Overall INVALUABLE. I appreciated every drop of the Montessori nectar that Karen shared : every word is so precious and transformative. It helps us grow and helps us be much better guides and a better person.

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Karen’s deep knowledge truly helps us to turn theory into practice. It is a gift for the guides and overall the Montessori vision that is brought to children around the world.


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As I had heard Karen's lectures before, I knew I wanted to hear her again and again. And I was not wrong, this mentorship program was a wonderful year spent, during which I gained very valuable knowledge for myself as a Montessori guide. And of course the biggest beneficiaries of all this are the children :)! Thank you!!!

ABOUT KAREN

Karen Pearce

Co-Founder & Director of Pedagogy, The Montessori Place

Karen Pearce is a Co-Founder and Director of Pedagogy at The Montessori Place in Brighton, UK, where she mentors the Children's House guides.

Karen trained at the Maria Montessori Institute (MMI) in London in 1989. She went on to lead one of their model children's houses for 18 years before becoming Head of School, lecturer, and Course Leader in the post diploma course in Observation. Throughout her years with the MMI she was extremely privileged to be mentored for 23 years by world renowned trainer Mrs Hilla Patell.

She has 38 years of Children's House experience and she lectures and runs workshops across Europe and Asia. Karen also offers a weekly online mentorship programme, Montessori Unwrapped, to support guides in putting theory into practice.

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ÂŁ300

One time payment

  • Lifetime access to progamme content
  • 10 hours of pre-recorded video sessions
  • Downloadable resources
  • Join 16 group coaching calls over two months
  • Immediate access
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PART OF SOMETHING LARGER

Module 6 is one of six.

Taken together, Open Monteversity is 60 hours of coaching with Karen Pearce. A complete professional development journey for Montessori guides and assistants working in the 3–6 environment.

Each module is available individually at ÂŁ300. The full six-module programme is available as a single enrolment. Many guides begin with one module and later choose to continue their journey through the remaining modules. If you already know that deepening your practice is a long-term commitment, it is worth exploring the complete Open Monteversity programme.

 

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