Montessori Training Centre
of
British Columbia
INFORMATION SESSION SCHEDULE:
Our schedule for 2008 will be posted soon.
Please telephone 604-261-0864 or e-mail montessoritraining@telus.net
to let us know you are attending.
Training Course for AMI
Primary*
Montessori Teachers
(Children 3 to 6+ years old)
We are accepting applications for
the course beginning September 2008.
The Montessori Children's Community
is now open in the heart of the Cambie/Oakridge
area in Vancouver. Click HERE for more information.
We
now offer an AMI Assistants Course
This course is a wonderful
"Introduction to the Montessori Philosophy" and
is open to anyone wanting to know more about Dr. Maria Montessori's work,
including parents and school administrators.
Dates to be announced in August
2008
Click
HERE
for details and an application
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Registrations are now being accepted.
Refresher Course
The Montessori Training Centre of British Columbia presents an AMI Refresher Course: "Guiding the Joy of Discovery: The Child's Journey to Literacy" presented by Nancy Mackenzie on February 7 in the evening and Friday, February 8 and Saturday, February 9 all day for AMI Graduates.
Click HERE for an Informational Flyer and Registration Form
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Our course is equivalent in credit to the Early
Childhood Education programme for BC.
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...helping children develop in harmony with life.
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"we must never forget that man does not develop only at the university, but begins his mental growth at birth and pursues it with greatest intensity during the first three years of life." |
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The Montessori Training Centre of British Columbia is a non-profit society established in 1982 to meet the growing need for Montessori teachers in Western Canada. The Primary Montessori Teacher Training Course it offers prepares adults to work with children ages 3 to 6 years. It is accredited by the Association Montessori Internationale, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Montessori Educational Philosophy
Children enter the world gifted by nature. With the adult's help in preparing an environment conducive to the child's development, the child can carry out the important task of constructing his personality.
This was the great discovery that Maria Montessori made: that the child creates himself, revealing the person that he can become. That is the primary task of the child.
The universality of her discovery of the child has been proved over 85 years throughout the world, with children in all cultural, social, physical and psychological conditions.
Montessori describes education as an aid to life, as a means of supporting and nurturing the continual unfolding of each child's personality.
Based on careful, systematic observation of children and their needs and interests at each level of development, the Montessori approach to early childhood education recognizes the tremendous developmental achievements of each child.
The Montessori Classroom
The task of creating his own personality is carried out by the child himself. It is a ceaseless and intense labor, carried out with great joy when assisted by the unconscious powers which nature bestows on the child during the first six years of life.
The Montessori prepared environment invites the child to be an active sensorial explorer. The keys to knowledge are offered through scientifically designed materials and presentations. Activities are chosen freely and repeated frequently according to the child's developmental needs.
The three year age range fosters socialization and leadership. Freedom of choice, of movement and communication help develop self-discipline. The freedom to repeat an activity leads to concentration without which true learning cannot occur.
The Montessori teacher will prepare a beautiful and orderly environment according to the principles and practices of the AMI. The teacher will present a variety of purposeful activities to the child and use refined observation skills to recognize the child's interest and needs, and provide developmentally correct work.
Montessori Education is a challenging career and the rewards are high. Working in a Montessori Primary prepared environment generates constant discovery in all fields of knowledge, for both the child and the teacher. Most of all, the teacher experiences the fulfillment that comes from working for a better world through tomorrow's adults.
*In British Columbia, most Primary classes are Preschool classes.
British Columbia
For more information about British Columbia, visit the Ministry of Small Business, Tourism & Culture or the In Vancouver web site for city-wide information.
For more information from the Training Centre:
Montessori Training Centre of British Columbia
200 - 8555 Cambie Street
Vancouver, B.C. V6P 3J9
(604) 261-0864
Fax: (604) 261-2805
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