Montessori Workshops
Creating the New Education
Learn skills for following laws of nature with children
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The IMS workshop is a two-day weekend learning experience, featuring Lee Havis, IMS executive director, presenting the unique 2003 technology of Montessori teaching. This technology is precise practical knowledge for conducting the scientific approach with children that leads to true normal being as discovered by Dr. Montessori in 1907.
Workshops are scheduled according to local interest. Contact: IMS, tel. 301-589-1127; havis@imsmontessori.org
Discover the normalized child through “inner preparation”
2-day weekend experience sponsored by
International Montessori Society
workshop registration, early registration, discount rate is $150/members; $180/regular
Regular registration is 4 weeks before workshop: $180/members; $210/regular
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The Workshop will Help you to:
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Learn and Improve Montessori teaching as a way of being committed to laws of nature. It will show you how to use the whole distinctive technology of Montessori teahcing, to create an effective normalizing environment, to assure the emergence of the child's true "normalized" nature as described by Dr. Montessori. This technology is a set of techniques, protocols, lessons and safe words that you can use to create the and sustain the special normalizing conditions described by Dr. Montessori |
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Discover the reality of the child's true "normalized" nature; i.e., loving order, spontaneous self-disciplined, eager for intellectual activity; attached to reality and in complete harmony with its environment. |
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Develop and enhance practical skills of Montessori teaching to "control the environment, not the child". You will learn to see the "adult personality" as a distinct element in the child's environment to control, and techniques to effectively do that; e.g., distraction, reflective language, questioning and eye contact. |
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Examine specific "misbehavior" situations with children; to use such Montessori principles as "observation", "individual liberty" and "preparation of the environment", to resolve misbehavior scenarios to completion, leaving only the reality of the normalized child. |
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Practice skills and technology of effective Montessori teaching through observation exercises, discussion, sample demonstrations, role-play drama of resolving misbehavior and showing children the proper use materials. This will help you incorporate the various workshop techniques, protocols, lesson presentations and safe words fully into your regular daily activity with children. |
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About the Workshop
The workshop provides direct, practical guidance for Montessori teaching, helping you follow laws of nature to control the environment, not the child. This is the scientific approach to normal being that respects the perfect inner guidance of children for their own self-directed development.
At the workshop, you will learn specific techniques, protocols, safe words and lesson presentations that are simple, comprehensive and completely effective. This is a breakthrough technology that until 2003 was considered non-existent, unknowable or otherwise impossible to fully describe.
Using the workshop technology, you will see that young children return to their true normal state of self-discipline, order, harmony and peace with others. This means a complete and permanent end to all forms of misbehavior in children, revealing the same normalized children that Dr. Montessori accidentally discovered in 1907. Now, however, you will have the precise tools necessary to bring about this same result in a consistent objective manner all the time.
Lee Havis, IMS executive director, discovered the workshop technology after years of research into the practical problems of Montessori teaching. At the workshop, he presents this unique knowledge in a lively, experiential manner, which includes group discussion, demonstrations, examples, materials presentations and role-play drama. Havis will show how to use this technology to resolve many common problem situations with children. For example, you will see how to use such techniques as distraction, eye contact, and proximity to effectively resolve many types of disorder and inattention in children in a peaceful, friendly manner.
You will also learn how to present the distinctive self-teaching Montessori materials, allowing children to naturally excel in academic learning through their own free, independent activity. The workshop is ultimately a deep inner preparation that prepares you to join with others in the vital work of creating Dr. Montessori’s vision of a new education in the world.
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What People Say about the IMS Workshop
“I have experienced significant improvement and changes in my communicating...My body, my voice, and my words have become like a true Montessori lesson...I came away from the conference with something totally unexpected — myself, externalized in my improved communication. Thank you for creating the environment that encouraged and allowed this to happen.” |
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Paul Posillo ( Ashaway, Rhode Island)
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“This conference helped me to understand better and to know the differences of my personality and my being. It gave me the courage to apply the three Montessori principles. |
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Florence Swaminathan (Houston , Texas) |
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“It was a great experience...words can never describe the conference and its benefits...a total success....” |
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Sharmila Suthesh (Singapore ) " |
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After attending...I was able to apply what I learned immediately — with amazing results. The normalized child began appearing all over the room!” |
Anita Bresler (Reading Pennsylvania) |
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" I am amazed at how much consciousness the Creating the New Education workshop has brought into our family life...Each challenge is overcome with observation, listening and redirection...Our communication with the children around us is improved, and more respectful and peaceful.." |
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Isabelle Guilbert (San Diego, CA) |
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" Thank you for the great work you are doing. Since attending your workshop and implementing the techniques, I thank God daily for the change in myself..." |
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Debbie Brown (Fayetteville, AR) |
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"Thanks for your help. I have been waiting these two years to get this kind of help in the classroom. ... I had nothing like this kind of training in my training program. It was all about the materials and the lesson plans...what about the child?..." |
Diane Singleton (Bloomington, IN) |
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"...I thought I heard what Montessori was saying but was not applying it literally. She could not have been more specific (now that my eyes are open WIDE)...my work is to undo years of traditional methods....I am re-reading everything montessori wrote in a new light thanks to you" |
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Ronnie Hazzard (Albany, NY) |
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"I like the results I'm having with conflict resolution. The children really listen when I do reflective language...My first day back after the workshop I did a lot of observing, and eye contact and little speaking...I am much more relaxed and confident in what I am doing. thanks for a great workshop" |
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Elley Rosenberg (Philadelphia, PA) |
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Workshop Location/Accommodations
The workshop is held at a conveniently located hotel or other suitable facility. Out of town participants may register at that hotel or elsewhere nearby. Each registrant will receive information about the facility and hotel and a complete set of study materials upon registration, to prepare for a successful learning experience in the workshop. The workshop fee also includes refreshments in the meeting room, and a light lunch on both days.
Registration Early registration fee is $140/person (members); $170/person (non-members). Registration 4 weeks before the workshop date is $180/member; $210/regular. . After that date, an additional late fee of $50 applies. Return the registration form below with the proper fee to the address indicated. Rates are given here in US currency, but foreign currency equivalents are acceptable, if exchangeable to US currency. Payment may be made by check or visa/master card credit card. Send credit card number and expiration date by email or fax: (301) 589-0733 *51. Contact IMS for details of payment procedures for wire transfers. Call with your comments or questions about the workshop —(USA) 301-589-1127 or toll free, 1-800-301-3131
Fees
Early registration before the workshop date is $140/person (members); $170/person (non-members). Four (4) weeks before, register at the regular rate per person: $180/member; $210/regular. A substantial further discount for schools is provided — for every three (3) paid registrations submitted from the same school, a fourth person, parent or staff, may attend at no extra charge. Member schools, either associate or recognized Montessori school, may apply the discount membership rate for all parents and staff. A cancellation fee of $25 is charged for withdrawal before workshop date. There are no refunds within seven (7) days of the workshop. Fees may vary when IMS is not the exclusive sponsor.
Workshop Hours
The two-day weekend workshop is conducted from 8:30 am to 6:00 pm on the first day, and 8:30 am to 5:00 pm on second day.
Certificate of Attendance
A certificate of attendance is provided to those who attend the workshop in complete accordance with the specified rules. The International Montessori Society recognizes this certificate for 15 clock hours of continuing Montessori teacher education. |
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