Montessori Training Centre
of
British Columbia
INFORMATION SESSION SCHEDULE
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Training Course for AMI
Primary
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The Montessori Children's Community
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AMI Assistants Course
Refresher
Course
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Montessori Educational Philosophy
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The Montessori Classroom
The A.M.I. Assistants to Infancy Course (0 to 3) is planned for Vancouver!
We have received approval from the Association Montessori Internationale (A.M.I.) to offer the Assistant to Infancy Course as a two summer Programme.
Course dates: June 22, 2009 to August 21, 2009
June 21, 2010 to August 27, 2010
Information Brochures and applications will be available once the Assistants to Infancy course registration with the Private Career Training Institutions Agency of British Columbia (PCTIA) is complete.
Please e-mail montessoritraining@telus.net or telephone 604-261-0864 to be put on the mailing list.
The Montessori Children’s Community has received approval for 28 children!
Approval has been granted for an exemption for a group size of 28 children, three to five years of age, in the morning session. (8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.) The kindergarten age children will stay in the afternoon for lunch and the extended day programme. (12:00 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.)
We have been working towards meeting the criteria necessary to receive the AMI Certificate for School Recognition. One of the criteria requires a group size of 28 to 35 children, three to five years of age in the morning session, with the older children staying in the afternoon for the extended day programme.
The Registrar is available daily to meet with prospective students at the training centre. Please telephone or e-mail to make an appointment.
For those who are not able to come during the day, the June Evening Information Meetings will be held on:
Wednesday, June 11 at 7:00 pm
Thursday, June 18 at 7:00 pm.
Evening Information Meeting Schedule for July is:
Wednesday evenings at 7:00 pmJuly 2
July 9
July 16
July 23Please e-mail or telephone to confirm your attendance.
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.
Monday, August 11 to Friday, August 22, 2008.
This course qualifies one for
the British Columbia Early Childhood
Educator Assistant Certificate.
Click
HERE
for details and an application
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Registrations are now being accepted.
Refresher Course Dates are: Thursday, February 5, 2009 5 pm to 8 pm; Friday February 6 and Saturday, February 7 - all day. Topic to be announced.
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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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