u/Dramatic-Housing-520

I have been tempting as an assistant in a Montessori aligned preschool for about a week now. I have very little Montessori experience, just the little we learnt as part of ECE training.

I know that Montessori materials are meant to be self-correcting as children see the error and keep trying till they do it right.

I have observed many children not doing this - especially with the sensorial materials. Children stack the red rods, brown stairs and pink towers willy nilly and do not seem to care about the right order.

What's the proper Montessori response when a child doesn't seem to understand or care about the 'proper' use of the materials?