Clarion Montessori Teacher’s Institute

 
Clarion Montessori Teacher’s Institute is a collaborative community of educators committed to studying, exploring, and refining the Montessori approach within diverse cultural contexts. Our core mission is to prepare educators for guiding children from infancy to lower elementary levels through a combination of comprehensive long-term and targeted short-term teacher training programs. These initiatives encompass a blend of lectures, workshops, and hands-on practicum sessions to ensure thorough preparation for Montessori teaching across age groups.

• · To establish a robust Montessori learning community grounded in Maria Montessori’s philosophy.
• · To design and implement a comprehensive Montessori Teacher Certificate program in the Philippines.
• · To empower and cultivate Montessori educators through a range of short and long-term workshops and programs.
• · To equip teachers with the skills and dedication necessary to maximize each child's potential through effective teaching methodologies.

Montessori Education is probably the most profound curriculum designed for early childhood education. The Montessori education is scientific and very much structured and yet gives so much freedom for creativity for a child to explore, experiment and discover. Montessori Education emphasizes independence of the child, freedom within limits, and respect for a child’s natural psychological, physical and social development.

Montessori Education was developed by Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori. Maria Montessori was born in Italy in 1870. She graduated from medical school in 1896 and became the first female doctor in Italy.

She paid special attention to human suffering especially to mentally challenged children and thought they deserved a proper education which could potentially help them overcome their illness. She studied under Jean Itard and Eduard Seguin, who had worked with the children with special needs. Dr. Montessori taught reading and writing to those children. Some of these children were successful and some even had better results than normal children in traditional schools. News spread quickly and Montessori education became sensational since then applied to children starting from Casa di Bambini in Rome.

Maria Montessori believed that EDUCATION is a natural process. She believed that it is spontaneously acting on the environment and it is not learned from words taught by teachers. She also believed that all children have a natural power and hidden potential for learning. So in essence, Montessori encourages children engage with the prepared environment, and discover facts about the environment by themselves. Teacher play a passive role, presents materials in Montessori method of presentation and students, with a proper presentation children are able to explore, repeat, and discover concepts and knowledge by themselves through Montessori materials.