100% ONLINE/

24-7

TEACHER TRAINING/

CONTINUING EDUCATION

for  ELEMENTARY

  • Earn Documentation of Your Efforts
  • Build your professional portfolio
  • Certificate of Completion Given for Each Course Completed Upon Request
  • Elementary Album Downloads Become Your Personal & Comprehensive Montessori Teaching Manuals and Instructional Guides
  • A USA Montessori Diploma* is Granted at Program Completion
*A USA Montessori Diploma should not be confused with a Montessori Elementary Teaching Credential offered by AMS or AMI--These programs are very costly, require lengthy physical attendance in a classroom, and demand a one-year full-time student teacher practicum at an accredited Montessori school for elementary-age children.  While a traditional program may be the most thorough way to acquire Montessori training, financial and geographical constraints preclude many aspiring educators from realizing their dream of teaching or homeschooling utilizing the Montessori educational model.
 

What's Included with the USAM 6-9 Program?

1.  Online Courses:  Peace Education I, Peace Education II, Philosophy I, Philosophy I, Online Mentorship Phase I, Online Mentorship Phase II and the Album Building Series of Online Workshops in which participants build their own teaching manuals appropriate for a 6-9 classroom.

2.  The following eLibrary is instantly available to you for download and consists both of course-required books and supplemental materials (the books marked with an asterisk denote those studied in our program--others are optional reading):

Maria Montessori:  Her Life and Work by E. M. Standing *

The Guide to the Montessori Method by Ellen Yale Stevens

The Absorbent Mind by Dr. Maria Montessori *

The Montessori Manual by D. Canfield

The Montessori Method by Dr. Maria Montessori *

Montessori Children by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

Pedagogical Anthropology by Dr. Maria Montessori *

The Psychology of Auto Education by Dr. Maria Montessori *

Montessori Mother by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Montessori Schools by J. White 

The New Children by Sheila Radice

3.  Two terms of online mentorship (OLM Phase I and OLM Phase II) which includes classroom management techniques and sharing of "tricks of the trade" to get our new grads off to a running start!

4.  Lifelong Continuing Education for USAM program grads;  free enrollment in any future courses that become available and unlimited "refresher" opportunities.