Montessori Education
AM2 Curriculum
First, we review your Montessori education and grant you up to 15 credits. Your prior training may be used to satisfy requirements for the following courses:
- Montessori Fundamentals I, II, III (totaling up to 15 credits)
Then, you’ll advance and enrich your Montessori skills in three core courses held over two semesters. These courses are based on current research on effective Montessori teaching:
- EDUC 6210: Analysis of Contemporary Issues in Education and Montessori (3 credits)
- EDUC 6220 Professional Growth of the Montessori Guide (3 credits)
- EDUC 6230: Classroom Management and Leadership (3 credits)
Woven throughout the program is an emphasis on integrating, reflecting and applying your learning. In the Action Research sequence, you’ll apply what you’ve learned in a real-world setting, and evaluate and reflect on the results of your advanced skills:
- EDUC 665D: Introduction to Action Research (2 credits)
- EDUC 670D: Integration Seminar (2 credits)
- EDUC 891D and EDUC 892D: Action Research Project (2 credits total)
Course Sequence
Aug. 1-3, 2008: On-campus learning experience in St. Paul, Minn. Comfortable, air-conditioned housing is available on campus. After you apply, we’ll mail you instructions on how to reserve housing space.
September-December 2008: Web-based coursework:
EDUC 6210: Analysis of Contemporary Issues in Education and Montessori (3 credits)
EDUC 665D: Introduction to Action Research (2 credits)
EDUC 891D: Action Research Project (1 credit)
January-May 2009: Web-based coursework:
EDUC 6220: Professional Growth of the Montessori Guide (3 credits)
EDUC 6230: Classroom Management and Leadership (3 credits)
EDUC 892D: Action Research Project (1 credit)
EDUC 670D Integration Seminar (2 credits)
EDUC 6210: Analysis of Contemporary Issues in Education and Montessori
The critical examination of problems and issues that relate to the present and future of education, including Montessori, will be at the heart of this course. The course brings together experience and Montessori methodology to address issues and problems that can relate to the roles of course participants. Responsiveness to variable subject matter, issues, and purposes is incorporated in a framework of interwoven modes of thinking. This course will explore some of today’s educational issues which may include intelligent design and evolution, standardized curriculum, testing, charter and home schools, zero-tolerance policies, religion and schools, compulsory attendance, multiculturalism, public Montessori, inclusion, mixed age grouping and looping and class size. Students may take both course numbers.
EDUC 6220: Professional Growth of the Montessori Guide
This class will explore professional development strategies for teachers. Like young students, teachers move through different stages of professional development. The students will use reflective methods of actively conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating. They will discuss and understand five major aspects of teachers’ professional growth – intellectual, physical, didactic, moral, and spiritual.
EDUC 6230: Classroom Management and Leadership
Participants will integrate foundational principles and strategies for leadership in the classroom based on universal intellectual values that transcend subject matter divisions. Specific areas to be addressed include management of the environment, work, time, behavior, and records. The students will also learn to establish classroom rules and procedures, and to enlist parent support for their leadership-management efforts. A framework for fostering cooperation, social skills, and a sense of community in the classroom is generated, and guidelines for peace education are included, with an emphasis on high-level thinking about complicated issues and considering the rights and needs of others.
EDUC 665D Introduction to Action Research
This is the first course in the action research sequence. Elements of collaborative action research are identified and discussed. Writing a review of the literature, formulating a research question, and determining methods for collecting data are key activities.
EDUC 670D Integration Seminar
This is the second course in the action research sequence. Data collection techniques and strategies for analyzing and interpreting data are studied. Completing the action research project report and determining appropriate “actions” from the research are foci of this course.
EDUC 891D, EDUC 892D Action Research Project
An action research project is planned and carried out in a school setting. Students work with an advisor in the development and completion of this research. A public presentation is the culminating experience for the research sequence. No class attendance.
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