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Keep the hands-on, child-led learning your child knows and fill the gaps a new classroom expects, like timed math facts or spelling rules. You can look for a certified teacher with Montessori experience and ask about it when you meet. Online, at your home or at a public library.
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Every tutor is a certified teacher
255+ specialists for IEPs, ADHD, ASD and Dyslexia
Online, in person, or at your local library
Kindergarten to Grade 12
Trusted by families across Canada
ESL and FSL support
Most Montessori children do well, and many change schools without trouble. When signs do show up, it is usually around a change: a new school, new routines or a new way of marking work.
Your child understands numbers with beads and rods, but freezes when a worksheet asks for fast answers on paper.
Ideas and stories come easily, but capitals, punctuation and spelling rules are not yet where the new teacher expects.
Used to picking their own work, your child seems unsure with whole-class lessons, set timetables and stacks of worksheets.
Your child has rarely had homework or letter grades, and the first report card at a new school is a surprise.
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Talk to your family doctor, pediatrician or your child's teacher. These Canadian organizations explain the signs and how to work with your child's school:
Look for a certified teacher who can start from the materials and ways of working your child already knows. Ask about their Montessori experience, and how they would build a bridge to how the new classroom works.
Your child may understand numbers with beads and rods, then freeze on a worksheet that asks for fast answers. A tutor can use real objects first, then move step by step to written work and number facts. Ask how a tutor would connect the materials to math on paper.
Ideas and stories may come easily, while spelling, capitals and punctuation trail behind what the new teacher expects. A tutor can build on the letter sounds your child already knows and add the rules that written work is marked on. Share a recent writing sample so they can see where to start.
Used to choosing their own work, your child may feel unsure with set timetables and instructions with several steps. You can ask a tutor to keep your child planning and checking their own work, while practising deadlines and teacher-led tasks. Agree together on what independence should look like at home.
Worksheets, short tests, homework and letter grades can all feel new after Montessori. Before or after the move, a tutor can help your child practise these formats so the first weeks feel less strange. Ask them to read the first report card comments with you.
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A quiet study room gives structure without the distractions of home. Meet in an open study area or a booked room.
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What to ask a tutor for changes with your child's stage, from hands-on materials in the early years to written work, research projects and the move to a new school.
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Practical life, letter sounds and counting with materials, so early reading and math keep growing through play and daily routines.
Moving from beads and letter tiles to written numbers, fluent reading and neat printing, at a pace that suits your child.
Fractions, long division, essays and research projects, with practice in tests and deadlines before middle school.
A tutor can help with worksheets, homework, letter grades and timed tests as your child settles into a new classroom.
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Many children adjust well. A 2023 review of 32 studies found Montessori students did somewhat better on average than peers in traditional schools. Gaps, when they appear, are often in what the new school marks differently, like timed math facts, spelling or test formats, and a tutor can work on those early.
Not necessarily. Every tutor is a certified teacher, and Montessori training is a separate qualification that not every teacher has. If it matters to you, look for a tutor who mentions Montessori experience, and ask about their background and training when you first meet.
Many can. You can ask a tutor to use hands-on objects, short lessons and real choices in what to work on, and to suggest simple ways to set up a learning space at home. Tutoring is not a Montessori classroom, but it can keep the same respect for your child's pace and independence.
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