Parents want the best for their children, and choosing where to place them in school is a daunting challenge for most. Imagine you're a student again: you walk into class this morning, and instead of seeing desks, you see a classroom divided into different areas and a large open space. The teacher walking around says hello and the students are spread out and working wherever they want. It is your responsibility to pack up your things and get started. There is no reason to be nervous, just excited, because what you learn today is up to you and you have the freedom to choose how you want to spend your time. Do you remember the last time you chose to choose the subject you wanted to study rather than sitting still. An effective technique used by teachers is to place students in separate groups based on their level. This technique provides more advanced students with harder work that pushes them and allows intermediate students to practice familiar material. This gives the teacher the opportunity to help students who really need attention understand what they are struggling with. In the Montessori classroom, students work at their own pace on a variety of activities before moving on to new and more difficult material, making the system completely individualized for each student. Teachers play an important role in orchestrating the day and, according to the article “Authentic Montessori: The Teacher Makes the Difference,” written by Alexa Huxel, “an essential element of an authentic Montessori method is respect for the child through the provision of a prepared environment that allows children to make choices while encouraging and supporting independence, curiosity, intrinsic motivation and movement” (2). Teachers are classroom facilitators. They explain how to do the assignment and let the student figure out how to do it on their own before reviewing the completed work. Many activities are hands-on and stimulate learning using visual aids. By letting students work on their own, they develop many skills that would not otherwise be possible. The environment allows the seven learning styles (visual, auditory, verbal, kinesthetic, logical, social and solitary) to help students excel in various activities. The classroom setting is informal and accepts interaction between students. Socialization between children encourages them to work in partnership and ask each other for help. Students determine what they want to work on, which benefits them in that they will never be left without a task to complete. The classroom is obviously child-centered and, by the nature of the setting, builds a close community between the children. By working together, they learn to respect and help each other. Teachers lead by example, so everything they do should not be done for their convenience, but rather to learn how students should actually behave and how to complete classroom tasks correctly. Children learn to be independent in almost everything they do from the start of the day, and as Anu Karna says in her article "Why Montessori?" “Ideally, we should not house our children forever, but rather raise them so that they can survive independently of us” (4). The class is extremely organized and everything has its place. Children are taught to put everything back the way they found it when they are finished after using an item during part of a lesson. Teach it