This contract is for 6-year-old kids because “at this age, growing, playing, exploring, and

learning, all happen together” (Curriculumorganization.UAB, 0:56). The kind of teaching I

would like to give my students would be conventional but complementing them with the
Montessori method so that they learn in a way that can develop autonomy while learning in
a way that is focused on them.
Contracts would be designed to be used 3 times a week and “will be new activities for the unit
they are studying” (CurriculumOrganization, 3:43), in folders that they can carry with the
activities that will take place every five weeks. In the contract “there are the five learning areas
of the Montessori method: language area, sensory area, math area, cultural area, and
practical life area” (Class Notes /1/12/20. CThP)”. These activities will be organized in small
workshops, which will have a limit of people. The children will know that the workshop is full
because of a square of colored paper in front of a sign with the limit of people in the activity.
Each time students complete an activity; they must mark it in the folder. I want to move them
around the class because this “enhance thinking and learning” (Class Notes /1/12/20. CThP).
Each workshop will have specific material for the development of that area. In math area
they will use bead chains or sandpaper numerals; language area: sandpaper letters and
vocabulary cards: sensory materials such as smelling bottles. In practical life I would give them
activities such as water the plants and flower arranging and for the cultural area, for instance,
place themselves on the map. With all this activity “kids can improve their skills”
(CurriculumOrganization.UAB, 6:30)
The evaluation will depend on the activities they have completed and whether they have
followed the norms of respecting each other, the material and whether their behavior and
development has been good. “There will be no methods of rewarding or punishment, as
impacts negatively with the children." (Class Notes /1/12/20. CthP).
Finally, an innovative contribution I would add would be that one of the tasks given to one
weekly is to take care of a pet that would have the class. Obviously, the pet wouldn't be real, it
would be a stuffed animal, which every week a student would take care of him. This would be a
way to give children a responsibility. In this way, by giving them a task of caring for a pet that
is of the whole class, they are given confidence and can begin to create a sense of responsibility
from a very young age. Depending on the state in which the class pet returns, they will be
evaluated more negatively or positively than previous evaluations of workshops and work done
daily in class and at home.

Bibliography
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Organization. ASCD. Retrieved from: https://serveis.uab.cat/canalce/content/curriculum-
organitzation
Class Notes /1/12/20. CThP course 2020-21