Service Learning
Gospel values are put into action through service, in a wide variety of venues. At The Good Shepherd Catholic Montessori, our students participate in a variety of age-appropriate service-learning activities.
Values in Action
- Practical Life: An essential aspect of Montessori education is practical life. At all levels students are engaged in maintaining and cleaning the classroom environment as a way to contribute to the community.
- Grace and Courtesy: Lessons of Grace and Courtesy help students and faculty alike to live within community and follow social norms. These include lessons in basic manners as well as conflict resolution and working together in groups.
- Community Service: Students in 6th grade offer community service throughout the school campus. They take care of recycling, water plants, read to younger children, clean whiteboards, etc.
- Service Hours: Our students in the Middle School Adolescent Program are required to earn 60 hours of community service prior to graduation. These service hours must be fulfilled by serving the family, the school community, and the broader community.
- Altar Guild: Students in grades 2-6 are able to participate in Altar Guild. The students meet during the school day to prepare the chapel for weekly liturgy and execute various prayer services and liturgical celebrations throughout the year.
“To stretch [the children’s] intellects, to make them classicists, to form budding scientists and mathematicians, to give them academic excellence will have no worth unless they are also integrated, committed, respecting, loving, and caring individuals.”
Margaret Stephenson (Montessori teacher trainer), Cosmic Education