AMI Diploma Courses

Course Offerings

	One Year Full-time Montessori International Diploma Course AMI (96th) 19 September 2008 - 26 June 2009
	Two Year Full-time Montessori International Diploma Course AMI (95th/96th) 19 September 2008 - 25 June 2010
	Two Year Part-time Montessori International Diploma Course AMI (96a) 23 September 2008 - 25 June 2010 (2 evenings per week and occasional Saturdays)
	Two Year Part-time Montessori International Diploma course (96b) 19 September 2008 - 25 June 2010 (5 mornings per week) *
	9 Week Montessori Assistants Certificate Course AMI (16th) 22 April 2008 - 26 June 2008 (2 evenings per week and occasional Saturdays)

AMI 3-6 Diploma Course

MMI offers students a comprehensive tutor-guided course leading to the AMI International Diploma. The course can be taken full-time in one year or part-time in two years.

The part-time course runs in the evenings and on occasional week-ends. This option often appeals to mature students in work or those with family commitments.

Students should be over 18 years old. Applicants should hold a qualification of 3 A Levels or an equivalent national qualification. Many of our students are university graduates.

Designed to be especially relevant to those working or planning to work with young children in the first six years of life – teachers, carers, psychologists, therapists, nurses – our course also relates to those who work with highly gifted or sick children. Anyone interested in a child-oriented career is welcome.

All our courses are international in character, and we actively seek students of all ages, races and creeds.

NB. MMI does not offer distance-learning courses because the tutor-guided standard of practical training provided for our students cannot be acquired through this type of course delivery. AMI does not give its approval to such courses.

Course Content

The course content is the same whether taken full-time or part-time, and includes:
	Montessori philosophy: child development; building the human personality; the laws of psychological growth; the successive phases of development and characteristics.
	Montessori theory: the role and attitude of the Montessori teacher; the preparation of a Montessori environment, along with the integrated study of how to develop each child’s potential.

These lectures focus on the essential concept of Montessori education as 'an aid to life'.

Montessori Equipment and Materials

Dr Montessori created special educational materials, from observation and research, to develop the child’s natural capacity for:
	Life skills: activities to guide the child’s independence and social development.
	Sensory perception: providing the means to explore the environment, to develop the child’s intelligence and cognitive skills.
	Language: a unique approach to language development, including writing and reading.
	Mathematics: preparing the understanding of basic mathematical concepts in an exciting original way.
	Culture: exploring the cultural resources of the child’s environment.

Supervised Practice

Students are given the chance to discover and question, through their own individual experience, the use of Montessori materials and equipment.

Supervised Tutorials

Students are encouraged to bring together theory and practice through stimulating discussion and a lively exchange of ideas.

Written Assignments

All students compile a personal record describing Montessori materials and how they are used.

In addition they prepare an Observation Journal, and hand in other written work as required during their Course of Study.

Experience in a Montessori Children’s House

Students observe the Montessori approach in action in a selected AMI school and do the teaching practice that is an essential element of the course.

* New Course Format Especially Suited to Parents

MMI is pleased to annouce a new course format: Two Year Part-time Montessori International Diploma Course (96b), 19 September 2008 - 25 June 2010 (5 mornings per week)

Over the past few years we have had several enquiries from parents wanting to do the AMI Montessori Diploma course on a part-time programme but unable to meet the commitment presently required by our part-time course of two nights a week and some Saturdays.  With this in mind we have decided to provide a programme especially tailored to the time constraints experienced by parents. The new format part-time course will run over two years as previously but the hours have been adjusted to cover the times in which children are at school – allowing parents to attend the course during the day but still be available when their children’s day finishes. The content of the course is exactly the same as that offered on the full time and current part-time courses, which will still be running as usual.