Guidepost Montessori at Dongming Road, CN

Montessori education provides your child with a love of learning and discovery throughout critical stages in their early development. Our Guidepost Montessori school in Pudong, Shanghai, will give your child an excellent start at life with high-quality education. We are also pleased to offer our programs in English and Mandarin, so your child can learn two languages!

Guidepost Montessori on Dongming Road is one of the first private childcare institutions approved by the Shanghai Pudong New Area Education Bureau. Situated in the heart of the Pudong community, our school is designed for infants and toddlers. Discover more about our accredited, authentic Montessori school on Dongming Road with a tour today.

About Guidepost Montessori School at Dongming Road

Guidepost Dongming Road is part of an international network of Montessori schools dedicated to helping children grow through joyful learning. Our school on Dongming Road offers a nurturing and educational environment for infants (12 weeks to 16 months) and toddlers (16 to 30 months). We offer dual language immersion, where your child can become fluent in English and Mandarin.

Early childhood years are the most critical time in your child's development. These years are foundational in shaping your child's future health, well-being, and happiness at school and home. Montessori education provides your child with the tools to navigate lifelong learning.

Are you searching for a day care, preschool, or pre-k education in Shanghai? You may want to consider Guidepost Montessori. The day care years correspond to our 'Nido' program, and the preschool years correspond to our ‘Toddler’ program. With Montessori's emphasis on helping children grow through joyful learning, Guidepost at Dongming Road can provide a nurturing environment for your child and prepare them for success in school and in life.

Our school

We are a Montessori school in Shanghai, China serving children from 18 months to 3 years. We offer year-round programming and rolling admissions into our programs to meet the needs of your family. Please contact us if you are looking to waitlist or register to start immediately.

Our programs

  • Offering Toddler bilingual programs
  • Available as 5-day per week
  • Full day or half day options available
  • Monthly tuition rates vary based on program and start date
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Contact us

  • Guidepost Montessori at Dongming Road
  • Address: No. 1778 Dong Ming Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai, China
  • Hours: Monday to Friday 8:00am-6:00pm
  • Call: +8618701853115
  • Email: info-china@guidepostmontessori.com
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Explore our programs

We are now accepting registrations for our programs! You can enroll to start right away or join our waitlist if your program is not currently available. We are also pleased to offer families affiliated at-home programming with more immediate care needs, while you wait for your waitlist spot to become available.

Why you should choose Guidepost Montessori Dongming Road

Children are born with a natural curiosity and love of learning. When nurtured and properly guided, this curiosity can unlock the door to lifelong learning. Our team of educators at Guidepost Dongming Road is committed to developing lifelong learners. We partner with you to help foster your child's natural love of learning.

Guidepost Montessori Dongming Road believes that joyful learning results in children that love to learn. The Montessori Method's foundations of individually directed learning, real-world experiences, and focus on responsibility for themselves and their surroundings can help your child become an independent learner with a love of learning and exploration.

We create an environment of support through a scientifically designed curriculum that allows children to develop their own ideas, explore their own interests, express their feelings, take risks, and make choices. Our educators guide your child through a world of discovery and responsibilities as they take their first steps towards independence and grow to be strong, thinking individuals.

Guidepost Montessori education takes a holistic approach: enabling social, emotional, and physical development alongside academic success

The Guidepost Approach

Educating the whole child

Teachers choose their moments of instruction wisely, offering lessons and presentations at suitable junctures in each child's development

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A teacher whose job is to guide, not lead

Our teachers follow each child's natural schedule, which encourages them to trust their own bodies

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Respecting the young child's rhythm of life

Children are given the tools and uninterrupted time to work on activities and materials they value

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More study, not less

Children are given the freedom to follow their academic interests, which reduces the need for external motivation

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No need for rewards or punishments

The teacher connects the child with their environment, showing them how to use the learning materials and evaluate their own work

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Independent learning by the child

With the freedom to move and choose their own work, children develop internal discipline and social awareness

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Empowered by choice

Lessons are designed to appeal to each child's level of development and interests

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Individually tailored lessons

A place where every student feels a sense of belonging, building confidence in the knowledge that their social identity is an asset and not a barrier

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A Day at Guidepost Montessori

See what a typical day is like in our Mandarin immersion program
Follow Madden, one of our amazing toddlers as she engages in self-led learning from shape puzzles to setting the table and cleaning.

A peek inside our school

Guidepost Montessori classrooms are light, airy, calming, aesthetically beautiful spaces. Each material is carefully chosen and carefully displayed — to inspire and entice your child to explore.

Meet the Dongming Road school team

We offer regular events to foster a vibrant school community: coffee chats with the school staff, seasonal events to bring our parents, families and staff together and open houses to share the school community with new families. We look forward to meeting you!

Why Guidepost?

The Montessori approach to human development is based on the belief in the potential of the child, and on the belief that it is only the child who can realize this potential. To grow up well is to grow up to be increasingly independent, capable, confident, happy and secure. At Guidepost, we are the village that supports you in raising your child.

The Montessori Approach

The Montessori method of education offers a knowledge-rich environment, through a child-led model. Children learn joyfully, through working with carefully sequenced, hands-on materials. Your child’s enthusiastic exploration naturally leads to a solid foundation and advanced academics.

A Close-Knit Community

Guidepost families tend to be friendly and welcoming folks, eager to make connections and form strong bonds. We think the education of our students is stronger when we can serve as a hub for such relationships, and we do all we can to foster a strong community in our area, with plenty of fun events and opportunities to meet and mingle.

A Global Network to Support You

Guidepost Montessori offers access to high-quality Montessori education in schools, at-home, or from anywhere around the world. Move seamlessly through our network as the needs of your family change to ensure continuity and consistency in your child's education, wherever you are located.

Your child's education starts at Guidepost Montessori School Dongming Road

Guidepost Montessori School Dongming Road is one of the most trusted Montessori schools in Shanghai. We make learning fun with the happy balance of real academics, intellectual curiosity, and a supportive environment for students. Children learn through working with carefully curated, hands-on materials and activities that engage each child's freedom to explore and learn within a prepared, orderly environment.

Come visit our school for a personal tour and to learn more about our programs, facilities, and affiliated at-home programming. Or call us at +8618701853115.

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