AMI Montessori Oral Exams in Mexico City, Summer 2024
This month I returned to Mexico City to work as an oral examiner for AMI, the Association Montessori Internationale, at the 0-3 training center in Mexico City.
The first morning sunrise inspired an early walk (It was slow to adapt to the altitude) in a neighborhood filled with cafes and tiny restaurants and Pilates and yoga studios, beautiful old homes, and flowers and trees. Continue reading
CHIHUAHUA
In the beginning of March, I visited the oldest Montessori school in Mexico, Colegio Montessori de Chihuahua. The school meets the needs of children with infant communities, elementary classes, and the higher grades, including a middle school, or Erdkinder (earth children), where the focus is real work that gives the students a feeling of being valuable, and creative, responsible, original, and respected. Continue reading
Graduation – Montessori Assistants to Infancy, 0-3, course
The main purpose of my visit was as an oral examiner for the AMI Montessori A to I (Assistants to Infancy), birth to three, course. But as always in this Montessori world a guest is greeted with grace and courtesy and a desire to joyfully share culture, which includes food, as Mexico City is famous internationally for this element. Continue reading