DIRECTORS TRAINING COURSE
The Indian Montessori Centre is among the few Montessori organizations which offers a Director's Training Course.
Eligibility for the Director’s Training Course:
- The candidate must be in possession of the diploma in Montessori (3 to 6 years).IMTC diploma is preferable.
- Work experience in a Montessori House of children is required.
- Academic knowledge of the books by Dr. Montessori and about the Montessori Method is essential.
- General knowledge especially pertaining to Child Education and development is welcome. If not it must be acquired during the training.
- Good command over the language (Presently English or Kannada) is very is essential.
- Maintaining good human relations must be a positive feature in the personality.The tasks include maintaining relations with schools, file readers, public enquiries, administration, students etc.
- Good health
- Professional ethics
- The duration of the training is not specified exactly. A minimum of two/three; years is estimated. The certificate will be, issued on the successful completion of the practical and paper work.
- Practical HANDS-ON training will be it an existing training centre approved by the Indian Montessori Centre. There will be no remuneration / stipend for the work done at the centre. There will be no fee charged for the training.
- The decisions of the panel of members of the scrutiny committee are final.
- It will be necessary to appear for a preliminary interview after the application is processed and accepted. The candidate should be prepared to undertake any travel that may be necessary for this.
- While at the training centre attendance at all lectures is mandatory. Exhaustive notes should be taken while listening to the lectures.
- Assessment of progress will be done every six months.
Areas of Training
- Organizing and maintaining the classroom -chairs, tables, notice board, furniture, practice room, equipment, administrative material. General care of the environment.
- Maintenance of registers — Registration registers, admission registers, Attendance registers, Consolidated register, work registers (Theory and practice), Planning for topics, Practice class schedules, Observation schedules, Examination schedules for students and examiners. Correspondence form letters.
- Maintenance of cash registers, receipt books, money transactions.
- Order of stationery and other student requisites.
- Maintenance of Montessori material and making inventories, mending damaged materials, making new materials, purchase of necessary equipment.
- Display of material.
- Distribution of material files to the file readers and receiving them. Follow up work with the students.
Academics
- Supervising practical sessions answering questions asked by students, asking questions, give guidance to students with regard to all aspects of training,
maintaining discipline. - Give instructions with regard to material preparations nomenclature cards,other requisite material to be prepared by the students.
- Give demonstrations of presentations (all areas of developmental activities)after discussing with the person in charge of training.
- Giving directions, checking and correction of material files, prepared by thestudents. Consolidated files at the and of the course.
- School visits to organize school observation by students.
- Correction and assessment of written work done by students.
- In-depth study of books by Dr. Maria Montessori and about Dr. Montessori.
- Making of material file relating how they are to be presented to the students. Itincludes the mention of the scientific nature of Montessori method and
material. - Write papers on particular topics specified by the panel. General, Theory, Psychology, on relevant topics with the students taken in smaller groups.
- Conducted discussions on relevant topics with the students taken in smaller
groups. - Setting question papers.
- Assessing examination papers.
- Give talks on Psychology and Theory of Montessori method.
Contact : imck@indianmontessoricentre.
