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WHO WE ARE
WHO WE ARE
HOLY FAMILY MONTESSORI (HFM), is a duly SEC-registered corporation founded in 1993, offers authentic Montessori method of education. HFM provides comprehensive programs for Casa, Elementary and High School levels. The school is conveniently located in the heart of San Jose, Batangas near the Archdiocesan Shrine of St. Joseph the Patriarch Parish Church, Museo San Jose de Malaquing Tubig and across the San Jose Dancing Fountain .
HFM currently has 2 campuses: The HFM Main Campus along the corner of Makalintal Avenue, and The HFM Annex Campus at the end corner of Dra. CA Aguila Street of Poblacion 2 , San Jose, Batangas.
As the first and oldest Montessori school in San Jose, Batangas, HFM is duly accredited by the Department of Education (DepEd) and certified by Private Education Assistance Committee (PEAC), an agency that manages programs like the Education Service Contracting (ESC) and the Senior High School Voucher Program.
With a team of experienced and dedicated teachers, it also provides a supportive and nurturing environment that encourages children to reach their full potential.
At HFM, we have a commitment to developing the whole child and his/her individual needs. We ground our approach in the Montessori philosophy and provide a foundation that cultivates a lifetime love of learning. We strive to create a peaceful classroom environment, offer authentic Montessori learning materials, and provide individualized guidance so that our students develop at their own pace. Our hope is that our students grow to respect themselves, those around them, and their environment enabling them to achieve success in their future endeavors.
OUR VISION
OUR VISION
A dynamic educational institution, providing a unique experience of Montessori education dedicated to cultivating holistic formation with a strong sense of harmony and responsibility to God and the community.
OUR MISSION
OUR MISSION
To glorify God; as inspired by the Holy Family, we passionately shape children in their utmost potential, through a nurturing environment, committed for excellence and meaningful developmental academic learning experience, founded on the ideals of Dr. Maria Montessori
The Montessori
Philosophy
The Montessori
Philosophy
The Montessori Education believes that the child in nature has the natural urge to learn. This natural urge of the child to learn must be supported by a prepared environment where the child both consciously and unconsciously absorbs knowledge. Learning with the environment must be facilitated by a trained teacher who understands the nature of the child and respects the child as a spiritual embryo constructing himself to attain perfection.
LIFE OF
Dr. Maria Montessori
LIFE OF
Dr. Maria Montessori
(1870-1952)
(1870-1952)
Dr. Maria Montessori was born in Chiaravalle, Ancona, Italy on August 31, 1870. Her parents Mr. Alessandro Montessori and Mrs. Renilde Stoppani-Montessori badly wanted her to be a teacher but it was not her interest. Being interested in Mathematics she took up Engineering but later on shifted to Medicine. In 1896 she was the first woman to graduate in the University of Rome Medical school and joined the staff of the university’s Psychiatric clinic.
There she found interest in defective children that made her director of the State Orthoprenic School in 1898. She worked there for 2 years which she considered the turning point of my life. From there on she devoted her energies to the field of education for the rest of her life.
In 1901, she gave up her work with the deficient and contemplated the question of teaching normal children. Because of this, she decided to return to the University of Rome to study psychology, philosophy and anthropology.
In 1904, Dr. Maria Montessori was appointed Professor of Anthropology in the university, and carried on her other activities as well until 1907, the same year her active life as an educator began. She was asked to direct a day care center in a housing project in the slum section of San Lorenzo, Italy; which she grabbed the opportunity in order to continue my work with normal children. In order to consider the developments of her work as representing universal truths in that school, she had to study them in different conditions and be able to reproduce them.
In this spirit a second school was opened in San Lorenzo that same year, third in Milan, and fourth in Rome in 1908, the latter for children of well-to-do parents. In 1909, all of Italian Switzerland began using my methods in their orphan asylums and children’s homes.
Dr. Maria Montessori’s work rapidly spread. Visitor’s came all over the world to see the Montessori schools. She then began a life of world travel establishing schools and teacher training centers, lecturing and writing. The Montessori Method which is the first account of her work was published in 1909. She made her first visit in the United States in 1912. The Americans surely gave her an enthusiastic welcome. However some American professionals gave her an equal torrent of criticism. Most influential of these Americans was the noted professor William Kilpatrick who published the book, The Montessori System Examined in 1914.
During the years 1916-1918, Dr. Maria Montessori traveled between Spain, where she was directing the Seminari Laboratori di Pedagogia in Barcelona, and the United States. After this time, she did not go back to the United states because of the criticisms to her works that were unchallenged for over forty years.
In 1922, she was appointed government Inspector of schools in Italy. However she was increasingly exploited by the Fascist regime, and by 1931 she began to work chiefly out of Barcelona. Dr. Maria Montessori’s last visit in Italy was in 1934 for the Fourth International Montessori Congress in Rome. In 1936, the revolution broke out in Barcelona, and she established permanent residence in Netherlands. Her work was interrupted in 1939 when she went to India to give a six-month training course and was interned there as an Italian national for the duration of World War II. She established many schools in India.
In 1952, Dr. Maria Montessori died in Netherlands. In later years she received honorary degrees and tributes for her work throughout the world.
References:
Montessori, A Modern Approach by Paula Polk Lillard
Maria Montessori: Her Life and Work by E.M. Standing
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