Course description
Early Years Educator & Montessori Diploma
The course of study leading to this qualification is a combination of knowledge-based and workplace-based assignments, supported by direct observation of your practice by your assessor in your setting. You can start at any time and progress at your own pace, and you’ll find that all the course materials have been very carefully organised to be logical and easy to use.
The EYE part of the course is concerned with all the regulatory aspects of working in the early years. The Montessori part of the course introduces the Montessori theory that underpins classroom practice and gives you comprehensive but intensive training on working with the Montessori materials during an 11-day workshop.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
To gain this qualification the learner will need to:
- Have a minimum of 3GCSEs to include Maths and English at grade C or above (or have a NARIC statement of comparability)
- Pass all 18 units
- Complete 400 hours teaching practice in a Montessori Early Years setting
- Attend 11 days Montessori apparatus workshop
- Pass Practical examinations
- Pass written examination
Training Course Content
Part of the qualification involves a required professional placement in a Montessori learning environment (OFSTED recognized), a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be required, as it is for anyone working with children
Qualifications have been built to meet the criteria for Early Years Educators required by the National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) which were developed in response to the Department for Education and NCTL’s More Great Childcare report.’
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Expenses
£2650 plus Exam fee £300.00
Thangamma Ponnappa is now lead Montessori teacher and room leader at MMI's nursery in Croydon. Thangamma says: ‘Before I came to England I had worked as a childcare practitioner...