The Director of Training
Mr. Eduardo Cuevas has been the
Director of Training at the Montessori Training Centre of BC since 1999. He
completed AMI Primary Teacher Training in 1973 at the Centro De Estudios De
Educacion in Mexico City, and is the founder and director of the Centro De
Estudios Montessori En Puerto Rico Y El Caribe. Mr. Cuevas has lectured at the
University of Uppsala Sweden, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Trinity College in Hartford
CT, Milwaukee WI and in Gerona, Spain. Besides having directed his own class in
the school he founded in Puerto Rico, Mr. Cuevas also has extensive experience
as a Montessori School Administrator and Director of Parent Education Programmes.
Mr. Cuevas is a graduate of the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, and
holds a Master's Degree in Primary Education from Loyola College, Baltimore,
USA.
The Course Assistants
Ms. Gilda Bonnet, directs the Montessori Children's Community, the
model class for the training centre. She has 30 years experience as an AMI
Montessori guide, having established model classrooms for the AMI training
programmes given in Puerto Rico, Spain and presently Canada.
Other staff includes album readers - all qualified AMI Primary teachers - and teaching
practice is done under the supervision of experienced AMI Primary teachers.
The Administrator
Mrs. Caroline Loughran, is a founding member of the Montessori
Training Centre of British Columbia Society, and completed her AMI Primary
Training in London, England. where she worked as a Directress in the training
centre's model Primary class. Mrs. Loughran has several years of experience as a
Directress and has served at the MTC of BC in different capacities since its
foundation.
Administrative Assistant
Kyla Williams has worked for four
years as the Administrative Assistant and the Assistant to Gilda Bonnet at the
Montessori Children’s Community. Her many years of experience as a legal
secretary and her enjoyment in advocating for young children are now being
directed full time in an administrative capacity.