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Teacher Education’s Distance Future
Public School Montessorian, Spring 2008 vol. 20, number 3

In dozens of Montessori teacher education centers across North America, hundreds of future teachers are learning their craft. It’s been that way for decades.

But the transmission of knowledge to apply the principles outlined by Maria Montessori is no longer confined to those lovely classrooms and an inner circle of teacher educators. The Internet is igniting a boom in distance education, expanding opportunities for both classroom teachers and homeschoolers.

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Montessori Live Offers Elementary Training, Link to Argosy University Master’s
Public School Montessorian, Spring 2008 vol. 20, number 3

An online elementary Montessori teacher education program, relying heavily on streaming video of “best practices” has opened in collaboration with a master’s degree program from Argosy University.

Montessori Live Distance Training Center has been developed and is headed by Kym Elder, a private and charter school operator in Florida.

Elder opened Island Village Montessori School in 2001. It now has campuses in Venice and Sarasota, FL, serving early childhood through middle school.

The teacher education course is inspired in part by the need for elementary teachers at her schools, and in part by her tireless drive to innovate. That drive has led to a master’s degree in charter school administration and now a doctoral program in Internet technology and distance education at Nova University.

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Montessori Live is a project designed to take Montessori into the 21st century. With the advent of online learning, it is time to make this methodology available on a global basis.

Montessori Live Online Distance Training Center is designed to become a collection of methodologies and best practice for Montessori professionals all over the known world. We believe that through video lesson presentations that are available throughout an educator's career, and that can be accessed at any time for review and practice, face-to-face training programs will be supplemented instead of replaced.

We offer online distance training courses using the content of our videos so that educators may have the option of pursuing advanced degrees and receive professional development credits.

We are also actively including many living treasures of the Montessori world, who may wish to record their fingerprints before moving on from this important educational conversation. Instead of a movement at the fringes, the Internet can serve as a uniting force for schools spread throughout the world.

Kym Elder
Project Director
Montessori Live Online Distance Training Center

For more information about our schools, please visit us at www.islandvillage.org.

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