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ABOUT US |
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The most urgent task facing educators is to come to know this unknown child and to free it from all entanglements.
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 ABOUT US
Mission
It is the mission of The Montessori Institute of San Diego Teacher Training Center to facilitate the transformation of adults into knowledgeable professionals who will create and direct a prepared Montessori environment. We aim to prepare guides who will be thoughtful and informed advisors to parents and enthusiastic representatives of the Montessori method, capable of sharing with the general public Maria Montessori's ideas and philosophy regarding the development of children from birth to six years.
History
The Montessori Institute of San Diego Teacher Training Center was established in June 1996 with the first AMI Primary Academic Year Program in San Diego which grants the AMI International Montessori Diploma, entitling its holder to educate children from three to six years of age. An Assistants to Infancy Course has been offered, over two summers, every year since 1998 which grants the AMI International Montessori Diploma entitling its holder to assist children from birth to three years of age. An Elementary Summer Course was given from 1999 to 2002, which granted the AMI International Montessori Diploma, entitling its holder to educate children from six to twelve years of age. The Institute is accredited by the Bureau for Post Private Secondary Education and by Loyola College in Maryland where the course study is equivalent to 27 units towards a Master in Education of 36 units.
Maria Montessori
Born in Chiaravalle in the Province of Ancona in 1870, Maria Montessori was the first woman to practice medicine in Italy, having graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Rome in 1896. As a physician, Dr. Montessori was in touch with young children and became profoundly interested in their development. Through careful and exhaustive scrutiny, she realized that children construct their own personalities as they interact with their environment. She also observed the manner in which they learned as they spontaneously chose and worked with the auto didactic materials she provided. Her approach to education stemmed from a solid grounding in biology, psychiatry and anthropology. She studied children of all races and cultures in many countries around the world, soon seeing the universality of the laws of human development played out before her. She continued her observations throughout her life, widening and deepening her understanding until her death in 1952. She was nominated 3 times for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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