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Training Programs for
Montessori Teachers

Realize Your Dream.
Become a Montessori Elementary Teacher

The Montessori Institute of Milwaukee, Inc. is accredited by the Association Montessori Internationale. We now offer two ways to earn an A.M.I. Elementary diploma:
  1. An academic year format
  2. A multi-summer format
In the academic year format, trainees have an integrated, uninterupted experience wherein lectures, observations, practice with materials, material making, and student teaching are under direct supervision of the training center staff.

In response to requests for an alternative format, we offer an intensive multi-summer A.M.I. course. Earn your diploma over the course of three summers!

Students are required to return to M.I.M. for a weekend seminar in each of the intervening winters.

In between summers one and two, students are required to spend two uniterrupted 2-week sessions in classrooms directed by A.M.I. elementary teachers for observations.

In between summers two and three, students are required to spend two uniterrupted 2-week sessions in classrooms directed by A.M.I. elementary teachers for student teaching.

A.M.I. Elementary Diploma for ages 6-12.
  • Full-time Academic Year Program: September, 2009 - June, 2010.

  • Multi-Summer Program: Attend full-time over three consecutive summers
    Kansas City, Missouri Campus
    2009, 2010 and 2011
    Plan ahead. Begins July 20, 2009
A.M.I. Primary Diploma for ages 3-6.
  • Multi-Summer Program: Students enrolled in this program have completed their second summer. The course will end in the summer of 2009.
  • At this time there are no plans to offer another Primary Course. If this situation changes, an update will appear on this site.
Graduate credit available at Loyola College in Maryland.

The A.M.I. Montessori Institute of Milwaukee (MIM) training programs prepare teachers to work in Montessori classes with children 3 to 6 and 6 to 12 years old.

MIM is accredited through the Montessori Accreditation Council for Teacher Education (MACTE), an autonomous, international, nonprofit postsecondary accrediting agency for Montessori teacher education programs.

Based upon her professional observations, Dr. Maria Montessori demonstrated the existence of previously unrecognized powers of learning in children. Her teaching methods strive to aid each child to achieve the fullest realization of his or her unique potential.

Currently, educators are searching for effective ways to educate children from all levels of society. Montessori trained elementary teachers are critically needed since Montessori education has demonstrated that it can meet the needs of both inner city and suburban children.

Teachers participating in training will observe children from various racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups working and learning together in Montessori classes.


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In the Children's House (ages 3-6 years) children explore the environment individually using sensorial material.

In the elementary stage (ages 6 to 12) children want to learn the reason for everything; they search for answers through small group activities.

Rather than expecting the child to memorize a curriculum, Dr. Montessori presented aspects of culture to the elementary child as "seeds of interest," lessons to touch the imagination and set fire to the intellect.

Primary studies include
  • Psychology, child development and philosophy of the Montessori approach
  • The Exercises of Practical Life and the child's acquisition of fundamental learning skills, sensorial development and development of spoken and written language
  • Mathematics, geography, history, art, biology and music
Elementary studies include
  • Dr. Montessori's principles of psychology; education and teaching methodology
  • Geography, biology, history, language, science, music, art and all branches of mathematics
All studies include
  • Supervised practice with the Montessori materials under the guidance of experienced, qualified staff
  • Observation in AMI classes
  • Practice teaching in AMI classes under trainer supervision
  • Material making
  • Preparation of albums containing illustrated notes of didactic materials
   

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NEW! Elementary Training at the
Kansas City Campus of
Montessori Institute of Milwaukee
Carol Hicks, Director of Training

Three-Summer Format: 2009 - 2011
Foundation Course:
June 15 - July 17, 2009

Elementary Course begins
July 20, 2009

Enrollment is limited
Contact MIM now for details:
Tel: (414) 481-5050
Email: Allyn S. Travis


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Montessori Institute of Milwaukee
3195 S. Superior St., Suite L 428
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53207
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