AMI Courses at Montessori Institute Prague
Orientation courses, full diploma courses, refreshers and mentoring, for every age group from birth to eighteen. Montessori Institute Prague is the only AMI certified training center in the Czech Republic.
Most people start earlier than that. An AMI Orientation Certificate Course runs four to six weeks, fully online, and gives you the foundations of the approach along with a qualification to work as a Montessori assistant, which is how a lot of guides first get into a classroom.
The usual route looks like this:
Some people go straight to a diploma course. Others assist for a year or two first. Neither is wrong, and the orientation course is not a prerequisite for the diploma.
Start with the kind of course that fits where you are now. You choose the age group, from 0-3 to 12-18, as the next step.
For assistants, parents and newcomers
AMI Orientation Certificate Courses are meant for current or future Montessori assistants, and work as an introduction for parents, school founders and educators new to Montessori.
For current and future guides
AMI Diploma Courses are meant for current or future Montessori teachers and guides, and provide the most comprehensive Montessori education there is.
Age groups: 0-3 3-6 6-12 12-18
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For practitioners already in the classroom
Each refresher examines one curriculum area in depth, so practitioners can take something practical straight back into the classroom.
For guides and for people running schools
Small-group mentoring works on the questions your own classroom is throwing at you. The school leadership course is built for principals, board members and owners.
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By completing a Montessori diploma course for a specific age group. An AMI Diploma Course runs one to two years, includes 400 to 490+ training hours of theory, observation and practice with children, and qualifies graduates to apply for Montessori teaching positions worldwide.
AMI Orientation Certificate Courses are introductory and focus on foundational understanding of Montessori philosophy and practice. AMI Diploma Courses are full professional training programs required for lead guides in Montessori classrooms.
Orientation courses run fully online, live via Zoom. Diploma courses are hybrid: they combine in-person training modules in Prague with structured online components, because the practical work with materials and the observation of children cannot be done through a screen.
An orientation course takes four to six weeks and 25 to 60 hours. A diploma course takes one to two years depending on the level, with 400 to 490+ training hours.
It depends on the course and the age group, and the current fee is listed on each course page. Diploma courses can be paid in instalments. Orientation courses cost a fraction of a diploma, which is one reason people start there.
Train for the age you want to work with, since the environment and the materials differ at every stage: 0-3, 3-6, 6-12 or 12-18. If you are working across the first plane, there is also a combined 0-6 orientation course.
AMI is the Association Montessori Internationale, founded by Maria Montessori in 1929, which sets Montessori training standards internationally. AMS is the American Montessori Society, founded in the United States in 1960, with its own standards and a mainly North American reach. What AMI Montessori means goes into what those international standards actually require, and where MACTE accreditation fits in.
Montessori Institute Prague is the only AMI certified training center in the Czech Republic, and works in partnership with AMI as an Approved Accrediting Agency for the Global School Accreditation framework.
Whether that means a four-week orientation course to find out whether this work is for you, or a two-year diploma because you already know it is, the courses are open to people at both ends of that range, and to everyone in between.
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