The AMI Montessori Diploma Course is a 9-month, full-time, rigorous, high-intensity, professional training course for aspiring career educators. This course prepares highly motivated adults to prepare, lead, and document the results of a complete learning environment along with 15-30 young learners in the 3-6 age range in a mixed-age, open learning environment. The Diploma Course is accredited by the Association Internationale Montessori (AMI), and successful graduates will earn the AMI 3-6 Teachers Certificate for recognition and employment by top Montessori schools around the world.
The AMI Montessori Orientation Course is a fun, engaging, 60-hour course typically delivered over three weeks. It seeks to prepare parents and other interested adults to understand and support children aged 3-6 in building independence, resilience, and self-sufficiency in school and in all areas of life. The Orientation Course is also the first step to becoming an assistant teacher to work in Montessori classrooms alongside Diploma-certified teachers.
The AMI Montessori Assistants Course Adjunct is a para-professional course for working and aspiring assistant teachers in Montessori learning environments. The Adjunct Course consists of 20 hours of training beyond the Orientation Course, typically delivered over four weeks. The Adjunct Course seeks to prepare assistant teachers to work in Montessori classrooms alongside Diploma-certified teachers.
Inukshuk Education provides continuing education / professional development for faculty of operating schools. From a one-hour, standalone session during a regular after-school meeting to week-long, multi-session, modular inservice programs the week before the new school year begins, Inukshuk helps teachers of Montessori and other inquiry-based curricula to continually hone and improve their child-centered, best practices for the benefit of their enrolled students.
Inukshuk Education provides fun, engaging sessions for parents, covering a variety of topics such as stages of child development; benefits and features of child-centered pedagogy; discipline and freedom in the home environment; what to expect when your child shifts from government or private school to a Montessori school; embracing mistakes as a natural part of the learning process; and more. Contact Inukshuk to initiate an engaging and rewarding parent information session according to your interests.
Inukshuk’s experienced consultants can help current Montessori school owners and administrators plan and execute fresh strategies for teacher recruiting, teacher training, observation and documentation of learning, design of student-centered learning environments during facilities planning, and more. If it effects the learning and growth of young people, Inukshuk’s mentors and consultants have experience with it.
Montessori methods of education, generally speaking, revolve around the core thesis that each learner is capable of teaching themselves and becoming their own lifelong teacher if allowed and encouraged to do so.
Montessori’s methods of education are important because they encourage adults to observe and notice how real, living children actually learn in the real world, and to structure classrooms, schools and homes around the benefits for the child’s development rather than for the convenience of adults.
The human body isn’t built for sitting in a chair at a desk all day long, it is built for running, jumping, walking, hunting, swimming and building. The human mind isn’t built for staring at a lesson book or computer screen all day, it is built for thinking, questioning, solving, dreaming, communicating and creating. Montessori schools don’t just throw facts and numbers at students and hope something sticks; Montessori schools lead students to understand key concepts, see relationships between subjects, reason through unforeseen challenges with confidence, and thrive in any environment the future holds for them.
By letting children grow according to their natural development when they are young, these learners grow up to excel in all forms of academic and personal success when they reach maturity. By encouraging the child to play in child-appropriate ways in the early years, that child will actually become a stronger student and professional in their later years.
Yes, we agree! Just like you, we also grew up in traditional, old-fashioned, “sit-down-and-be-quiet” kinds of schools. Montessori teaching methods are vastly different than traditional schools 30, 50, or 100 years ago. We are happy that our own children a generation later get to enjoy learning, get to feel good about going to school, and get to grow into self-sufficient adults. We are happy that our own children don’t have to go to the same stuffy, boring, sometimes harsh schools we did when we were children. Thinking about your own son or daughter…don’t you agree?
Working with children as a Montessori professional educator is completely awesome! It is the best job ever. It is challenging, it demands your complete attention while the children are in school, and some days it can be stressful; but the feeling of purpose, the focus on mission, the act of making the world a better place makes all of the hard work worthwhile!
Absolutely! Please get in touch with the Contact form and let us know how Inukshuk can help your school advance in your mission and vision.
Dr. Maria Montessori was a medical doctor in Italy a century ago. Her medical work eventually turned toward children and their physical, intellectual, emotional, and social development. Dr. Montessori’s many publications about children and their developmental stages have informed better practices by teachers and schools in every country of the world.
Orientation Courses happen a few times a year in various locations. Keep your eye on this website or sign up for our mailing list to get notified of the next Orientation Course.
Diploma Courses usually begin once per year in approximately September. Enrollment opens in approximately March. Keep your eye on this website or sign up for our mailing list to get notified of the next Diploma Course.
Working with children is a demanding task. Taking responsibility for the safety and growth of other people’s children is an enormous responsibility. By training in person, with intense focus and with high expectations for our own learning, we become highly competent professionals who can prepare for, anticipate, measure, and quickly adapt to the intellectual, emotional and physical needs of a classroom full of children….other people’s precious children.
Every course is preceded by one or more Open House events in which the trainer explains the objectives, assignments, benefits, and responsibilities of the course. Then the trainer will generously answer all participant questions, staying with you until you feel secure about which course you want to take and why you want to choose it. Our office staff will gladly assist you with any doubts about your enrollment. Our trainer will continue to be available to you for course questions from the Open House until long after the graduation ceremony. Start by signing up for our mailing list to find the next course near you.
Yes, you can. The Orientation Course is designed for both aspiring assistant teachers who want to work in a school AND ALSO designed for parents and anyone else who is interested in the development of young children even if they don’t intend to work in a school.
The AMI Montessori Diploma is a teacher’s certificate recognized among all Montessori schools affiliated with the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) and many other unaffiliated Montessori schools. Many Montessori schools only require the AMI Diploma, while other schools may also require a government-issued teaching license. Every school determines its own requirements for teacher qualifications.
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