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The United Montessori Association (UMA) – Teacher Training Program, Global Internet Distance Learning upholds a profound reverence to the practices and virtues that were created by Dr. Montessori. This traditions and principles are intended to preserve the values of teaching quality education to children.

A Montessori teacher is expected to perform the following Montessori ways of teaching:

• Tend the child’s natural yearning to learn (so that the child may excel in an area of expertise)
• Enhance the child’s own distinctive talents and skills (so that the child will be nurtured not only intellectually but also in the region of arts)
• Guide the child to become a person of confidence, compassion, and productivity in the growing community he is in (so that the child will be ready for the wider he will step into after his childhood schooling)

These and more are expected of a Montessori teacher, and these are all incorporated in the Teacher Training program of the United Montessori Association in order parallel the teacher’s principles into that of his working environment’s ways.

The Montessori teacher training program is a program under the UMA that supports distance learning where in partakers communicate through email correspondence and video interactions. Teachers taking up the distance learning program will receive lesson plans in Microsoft Word format. Each lesson may be downloaded and printed up for convenience and ease. Other resources like books may be bought in the volition of the course-taker. Educational materials, such as manuals and DVDs will be sent via the postal service as they were already incorporated in the tuition fee.

The expected time of the completion of the Montessori teacher training program is approximately twelve (12) months. You are expected to gain sufficient knowledge and understanding of the Montessori teaching principles after finishing this stage. Montessori is proud to say.