(This article was originally published by Sun Star Cebu Daily on July 4, 2007)THE Association of Montessorians in Southern Philippines, in cooperation with Oneworld Montessori House, held an intensive two-week training program in Lower Elementary Montessori .
The training was supported by the Australian Business Volunteers.
After the Montessori training, the association plans to send qualified Montessori administrators and teachers to Australia to participate in a month-long trainers’ training program.
With the increasing number of schools implementing the Montessori approach, the trainers’ training program is deemed necessary to meet the increasing demand for qualified Montessori teachers, the group said in a statement.
The training program’s resource speaker, Elizabeth Alcorn, is an active leader in the Montessori movement in New Zealand and Australia.
She was an educational consultant and educational director of Montessori World Educational Institute for 25 years.
She has traveled to different parts of the world to give Montessori training and to attend conferences.
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She has written several study guides and Montessori curriculum manuals.
Alcorn trained under Margaret Homfray and Phoebe Child who were appointed by Dr. Maria Montessori to run the Montessori Training Center in London from 1946 and onwards.
She helped organize summer courses in Montessori Education in New Zealand and Australia conducted by her two mentors.
Along with Helen Wheatley, the principal of St. Nicholas in London, she was designated by Homfray to continue the work she had inherited from Dr. Montessori.
For inquiries about Montessori education, one may call Association of Montessorians in Southern Philippines Inc. president Jocelyn Kintanar at 253-3191.
Picture above: Montessorians with the Australian Educational Consultant, Elizabeth Alcorn, during the Montessori Training held at Oneworld Montessori House from May 28 to June 9, 2007
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