A Montessori Teacher’s Account of Teaching During War - Syria

NAMC is privileged to have built a Montessori community of students that spans the globe. Many of our students are fortunate enough to live in countries that are politically stable, but many others have a different reality. They must find a way to live, work, study, and teach during a time of war. This is the current reality for Hanna, a NAMC student who lives and teaches in Syria. At our request, Hanna has kindly shared her personal experience of how the war in Syria is affecting the children in her school.

Hanna and some of her students outside their Montessori school in Syria

I have tried in these first two weeks of the school year to study in depth the children of our kindergarten. I would like to clarify the fact that the children that attend our kindergarten belong to the middle class and above. They are not among those most affected by the war, which are mostly people belonging to the poor part of society. Our kindergarten is situated outside Damascus in a select area where the situation has been relatively calm until now; and I truly hope that it will continue to be so.