Workshops

Morning workshops are only available to European delegates as they will take place at the same time as the MSA meeting and Christine Pascal’s talk.

A choice between Lynne Lawrence’s talk on “Observation: the Cornerstone of Montessori Education” and a wide variety of workshops (repeated from the morning choice), will be available to MSA members in the afternoon.

Workshops include:

“Using Drama to Observe Children’s Imagination ” - Chris Manville, lecturer and Montessori consultant who has had many years of experience in the Montessori classroom.

“Observing and Identifying the Special Needs Child” - Wendy Fidler, Montessori Consultant, Ofsted Inspector and author of “Montessori Meets the Early Learning Goals” and many other articles. Wendy has a special interest in special needs and has written many articles on Autism, Aspergers and Semantic Pragmatic Disorder.

“Implementing the Work of the Early Learning Project in Your School” – Barbara Isaacs , Director of MCI and author. This will be a follow up to Christine Pascal’s talk, and will look at putting aspects of the EEL Project into practice in a Montessori school.

“Introducing Positive Discipline into Your Classroom” - Serena Gunn, Head of Meadowbrook Montessori School, Bracknell, Berks and lecturer in Montessori Education. Serena’s school have taken on board an approach devised by Jane Nelsen to cope with discipline problems in the classroom, which is compatible with Montessori philosophy and has achieved great success.

“Exploring the Montessori Bells” – Elina Rautascalo . This workshop is suitable for all who are interested in introducing music to children through the Montessori Bells, not just musicians. Elina studied for her 3 – 6 Diploma at Maria Montessori Institute (AMI) in London. She started her own Children’s Houses, and worked as a directress for many years. Currently she is a teacher trainer at the Maria Montessori Institute in London.

“Introducing the Biome Maps and Materials into Your Montessori 6 – 12 Classroom” (Biomes include rainforests, deserts etc) – Sharon Duncan director and founder of Waseca Learning Environment U.S.A. Sharon has 20 years experience with both 3 – 6 year olds and children over 6 years of age. The exciting new biome maps will be on sale at the conference.

“Grace and Courtesy Exercises for the Young Child” (2½ - 12 years) – Pam Crisman. Pam is director of the Santa Monica Institute, California and Vice President of the International Association for Montessori Education (IAME)

This is just a sample of the workshops. There is a choice of 11 workshops altogether, plus Lynne Lawrence’s talk on “Observation: the Cornerstone of Montessori Education” to choose from. Please note you can either choose Lynne’s talk or a workshop, as they are on at the same time. Workshops and Lynne’s talk will be allocated on a first come first served basis. A full list of workshops can be found on the Montessori Europe website