How is Salem Montessori School Different?

Teaching at Salem Montessori School, the environment offers opportunities to connect with children, help them reach their potential, and guide them toward meaningful growth.

It can be an incredibly rewarding career. Montessori teachers often describe teaching as something they love doing and which they’re passionate about.

Salem Montessori School is a school that teaches life and academic skills. Teachers and children feel safe, nurtured, and immersed in learning. Salem Montessori School is where you belong.

Why do people love teaching Montessori?

Montessori fundamentals like uninterrupted work time, concrete, experiential learning, and peer-to-peer teaching give children a sense of passion, proficiency, and purpose in the classroom. At Salem Montessori School, each child is recognized as unique, with certain gifts that are their own.

  • …Energizing work tasks…

  • …Ability to learn new things…

  • …Clear sense of purpose…

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What is the Montessori Method?

For more than a century now, the child-focused approach that Dr. Maria Montessori, an Italian physician, developed for educating children has been transforming schools around the globe.

As soon as you enter a classroom, you know that something different is afoot. Montessori classrooms are immediately recognizable. You will see children working independently and in groups, often with specially designed learning materials; deeply engaged in their work; and respectful of themselves and their surroundings.

The Montessori Method fosters rigorous, self-motivated growth for children and adolescents in all areas of their development—cognitive, emotional, social, and physical.

Montessori education is student-led and self-paced but guided, assessed, and enriched by knowledgeable and caring teachers, the leadership of their peers, and a nurturing environment.

Given the freedom and support to question, probe deeply, and make connections, Montessori students grow up to be confident, enthusiastic, and self-directed learners and citizens, accountable to both themselves and their community.

They think critically, work collaboratively, and act boldly and with integrity. What better outcome could you wish for your children?

For over 30 years, Salem Montessori School has nurtured independence, kindness, and a lifelong love of learning.

PROGRAMS

CAMPUS LOCATIONS

Infant/Toddler Campus
107 Corporate Blvd.

Salem, VA 24153
Phone: (540) 387-1521

Primary Campus
101 Corporate Blvd.

Salem, VA 24153
Phone: (540) 387-1523

Elementary Campus
1574 Roanoke Blvd.

Salem, VA 24153
Phone: (540) 404-0228

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