MASTER DEGREE MONTESSORI
Childhood Education 0-6

PRESENTATION

Master’s degree in Montessori Education Preschool specialisation, taught by the International Montessori Institute (IMI) in collaboration with the University of Barcelona (UB).

Dr Maria Montessori brought up with her method a pedagogical proposal endorsed by the scientific community and recognised worldwide. The objective of this pedagogy is to educate every human being as unique people through training to act with freedom, intelligence and dignity.

Montessori education is a pedagogical approach of wide recognition at an international level, Dr Maria Montessori developed during the first half of the twentieth century an educational method based on the scientific observation of the child: its various stages of development throughout life, its potential, its interests and its capabilities.

Current scientific research goes on validating this educational method every day as a set of elements that help our children and students in their holistic development of mind, body and emotions.

This Master’s degree, though a classical Montessorian perspective, offers comprehensive training, providing adequate scientific, philosophical and methodological foundations. Training the student to exercise as a Montessori Guide in stages 0-3 and 3-6 years, with the aim of contributing, with a global pedagogical proposal, to the quality of education of children.

TEACHING TEAM

At International Montessori Institute (IMI) we have a clear objective: to offer a classic and rigorous Montessori training based on the original sources of Dr Maria Montessori, adapted to the current educational needs.

Our team is made of more than fifty professionals who have been carefully selected for their great training and extensive international career, with the aim of transmitting to our students all the wealth of the Montessori Method. Trainers and teachers distributed in three continents, expert educators, with an extraordinary aptitude for teaching. As well as our advisory support team, which work to make IMI a worldwide Montessori pedagogy training centre of reference.

PROGRAMME

• Historical Context: The fascinating story of Dr. Montessori and her educational method which quickly took hold across the world.
• Montessori’s philosophy: A broad theoretical foundation rooted in the scientific observation of human nature.
• Teaching education: Didactic models: practical implications of different models.
• The Role of the Adult: the adult in relation to the child, the importance of observing and caring for relationships.
• Prepared environment: as an educational element, its adequacy and management.
• Scientific validations: from Montessori pedagogy from psychology to neuroscience.
• Montessori, a scientific method: the scientific research of the last decades validates the characteristic elements of Montessori education.
• Neuroscience applied to education: this new branch of science shows us the neural keys of learning and the path to effective and healthy learning.
• Observation methodology: a skill that allows you to manage a classroom effectively and ensure children’s welfare
• Practical life: Dr Montessori proposes Practical Life activities as a bridge between the house and the school environment. These activities allow a holistic development of the mind, body and emotions. Motor coordination, development of autonomy, adaptation to the environment and concentration capabilities that lay the foundations for all subsequent learning. Future teachers learn to prepare and present them in exquisite detail.
• Sensory material: Dr Montessori considers sensory materials as authentic “keys to the Universe” as they exert the sources of power of our mind at this age: the senses. The scientific design of sensory materials makes them real development aids. Students explore them in detail so they can extract their full potential from them.
• Language: language is the backbone of life and community learning.
• Mathematics: Dr Montessori collects the concept of the “mathematical mind” of Blaise Pascal and transforms it into a didactic reality. Concrete materials that accompany the natural process of the mind towards mathematical abstraction. All the activities and necessary to offer a solid mathematical basis to children.
• Cultural areas: arouse children’s admiration for the natural and cultural world that surrounds them. Significant experiences as the basis of scientific discovery. Develop deep respect for all humanity and nature. History, geography, biology, art and music as an interrelated whole.

THEORETICAL STUDY

Online Theory phase 

This master’s degree offers a solid theoretical basis to implement a pedagogy focused on the development of children. The complete Montessori theory enriched with contents of Educational Didactics and Neuroscience. Each module is offered by trainers / is specialized in the various areas of study.

Theoretical phase modules:

• Historical Context.
• Philosophy I and II
• The Role of the Adult in Montessori.
• The prepared environment.
• Scientific Evidences.
• Educational Approach

PRACTICAL STUDY

On-site Practical phase

The practical phase of the training is divided into three face-to-face phases, with a duration of 5 weeks each phase, always developed during the month of July. These phases include all the presentations of Montessori materials and activities offered by trainers/experts in each Montessori area, as well as the gradual elaboration of each student’s personal albums in permanent dialogue with the trainers.

Modules of the practical phases:

• Language
• Mathematics
• Geometry
• Cosmic: History, Biology and Geometry
• Art

WHO IS IT DESIGNED FOR

• Preschool education assistants (0 – 3 years olds)
• Foreign Language Teachers
  Physical education teachers.
• Special Education, Hearing and Language Teachers.
• Music teachers
• Psychologists and speech therapist
• Preschool educators (3-6 years olds)
• Homeschooling families
• Educators at summer camps
• Other educational environments

TRIPLE DEGREE

Once completed, students who successfully complete the training will obtain:

• Master’s degree in Montessori Pedagogy in the speciality of Childhood by the International Montessori Institute and the University of Barcelona.
• Montessori Guide IMI 0-3 years (Children’s Community) Certificate.
• Montessori Guide IMI 3-6 years (Children’s House) Certificate

Issued by International Montessori Institute, with international recognition and validity.