Primary Course, Academic Year 2012 – 2013
Now Enrolling!
September 4, 2012 - June 2, 2013
Co-Directors: Ginni Sackett and Sarah Werner Andrews
Classes are held Monday to Friday, 8:30 am – 2:30 pm
Summer Primary Course 2012, 2013, 2014
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Summer 1: June 20, 2012 – August 10, 2012
Summer 2: June 19, 2013 – August 16, 2013
Summer 3: June 23, 2014 – July 20, 2014
Co-Directors: Ginni Sackett and Sarah Werner Andrews
Classes are held Monday - Friday, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
During the summer sessions, classes are held Monday - Friday, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm. Students will complete their observation and practice teaching requirements in Montessori classrooms during the intervening academic years. Students make their own arrangements for observation and practice teaching with assistance from MINW. Attendance is also required at two winter seminars in January 2013 and January 2014.
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The AMI Primary teacher training course offers an in-depth study of Montessori theory and practice for working with children aged three to six years. During 850 hours of teacher preparation, students are trained to work in the Montessori Primary classroom, or Children's House. The child at this age learns through hands-on manipulation and self-directed activity, and thrives in an expanded social environment with opportunities to interact and explore within a large group of mixed-age children. The Montessori teacher for this age assists a child's developmental work related to order, movement, sensory perception, functional independence, social life, spoken and written language, and mathematics, with sensorial and language extensions in art, music, biology, physical science and geography. Ideally, a child stays in the same Montessori classroom with the same teacher for three years before moving on to the Montessori elementary classroom.
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View the Student Handbook for the Primary course [PDF]
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