At Odyssey Montessori you won’t find high stakes tests and stressful learning situations. What you will find is respect for the students’ individual personalities and needs, individualized instruction, and hands-on learning opportunities. Our school’s academic program is based on the principle of freedom within limits. Our Montessori guides determine, through observation of the students, when new activities and materials need to be introduced. Lessons are given individually or in small groups, with the aim of encouraging active, self-directed learning. Students have to opportunity to work at their own pace with materials they have chosen, either alone or with others. Experienced students share what they have learned with younger children, while reinforcing their own learning. Students work toward gaining independence and taking responsibility for the learning process. While Montessori education focuses on individual choice, students have tasks they are expected to accomplish and goals they work to achieve, according to their individual learning needs. In our classes, the overall goal is to help children become lifelong learners and happy, productive adults. We promote active learning by encouraging spontaneous activity in education and the pursuit of studies in all areas of personal interest; by using concrete manipulative materials, experimental discovery, small- and large-group discussion, independent research, field investigation, and other methods of experiential learning; and by facilitating the children’s need to work from the concrete to the abstract.
To view Odyssey’s Mission and Goals and Core Values click on the corresponding links on the the sidebar to the left.
Nondiscrimination Policy: The Learning Center Educational Services, Inc., doing business as Odyssey Montessori, admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarships and other school-administered programs. All qualified applicants for staff positions with The Learning Center Educational Services, Inc. will be given equal consideration for employment regardless of race, color, age, national origin, gender, sexual preference, religion, ethnic, or political affiliation.
