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The AMI Montessori Orientation to Adolescent Studies
Announcing the 2013-2014
NAMTA Conference Schedule
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New! Montessori Algebra for the Adolescent by Michael Waski - see table of contents or sample pages
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The NAMTA membership year is September 1-August 31!
NAMTA's purpose is to maintain Montessori traditions, and at the same time, to be on the cutting edge of innovative education. Accordingly, we provide the medium for study, interpretation, and improvement of Montessori education.
NAMTA offers Montessori Whole-School ManagementSM: A Professional Development Course for Administrators at two levels. In January 2013, NAMTA is offering a foundation course for new and/or aspiring administrators, Tier I: First Principles.
Tier I: First Principles, took place January 16-20, 2013 in Dallas, TX.
Tier II: The Art of Strategic Planning, is an opportunity for seasoned administrators to explore and discuss strategic planning. Dates for 2014 to be determined.
Since 1988, NAMTA has documented best administrative practices and provided professional development to beginning administrators with one overarching principle in mind: Montessori schools, in order to retain their authenticity over time, need Montessori-oriented administrators who understand the specific operational aspects of Montessori pedagogy.
The increasing complexity of Montessori school structure means that the Montessori school must reintegrate its parts to complete the developmental continuum. This is an extraordinary endeavor as the Montessori school must embody the Montessori vision of successive prepared environments, indoors and outdoors, encompassing the natural and human-built worlds through all academic disciplines from concrete to abstract, from eighteen months to eighteen years. The more comprehensive the Montessori vision, the more complicated the institution and the larger and more diverse the staff. There is also more difficulty in staying organic and remaining focused on the organic whole, which is simply children and their intrinsic needs in contact with the appropriate “prepared environment,” including the natural environment. The implementation of Montessori Whole-School ManagementSM requires not just administration but visionary leadership, which is as much a test of character as it is of knowledge.