My Model Classroom “The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experience.” Maria Montessori “But in our specially prepared environments we see them all at once fix themselves upon some tasks, and then their excited fantasies and their restless movements disappear altogether; a calm, serene child, attached to reality, begins to work out his elevation through work. Normalization has been achieved.” Maria Montessori I will go back to work at the Montessori school I work at before, located at Braintree, MA, and I will teach age group 3-6. Usually, each classroom will have 17-20 students; among them, one or two may have ADD/ADHD, and about 1/3 of them are ELL, according to my experience. The students are great, and they can take care of themselves, such as dressing themselves, serving snacks, cleaning up after them, and putting materials back to their original plac...