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Positive Discipline
Chip DeLorenzo presents strategies for taking your skills to new, Montessori-friendly depths through the use of Positive Discipline, which teaches that for discipline to be effective, it must—among other things—be kind, firm, and respectful, and invite children to discover how capable they are.
Montessori and ADD/ADHD
This webinar will present an examination of the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of attention deficit disorder in children from early childhood to adolescence, with a focus on children in the learning and social environments.
Fundamental Practices of Motivation
In this webinar, you will learn why rewards hinder a student’s natural desire to learn, how praise can be a type of reward, and how this impacts a student’s development and sense of self.
Fostering Student Independence
In this session, the presenters will discuss classroom practices that encourage—or undermine—independence.
Working with Children in the Natural World
In this video, you’ll learn how you can utilize just one small square of your outdoor space for children to investigate topics of wonder and begin to perceive themselves as scientists.
AMS Learning Live: Strategies for Handling Challenging Behaviors in the Classroom
Challenging behaviors are often a part of working with children. How do we view these in a Montessori way? In this live recording, Maria Eva Chaffin explores the role of the adult and the environment in supporting children with behaviors that challenge us. She answers questions and gives strategies on how to best support these children.
Cultivating Mindfulness in Infant and Toddler Environments
In this webinar, you will explore techniques to cultivate increased mindfulness in Infant & Toddler environments.
Materials in the Toddler Environment: Meeting the Needs of the Child
This presentation will help you assess the needs of children from birth to age three.
Joyful Classrooms: Fostering Positive Discipline in Montessori Settings
Implementing these strategies, educators can effectively address crying, tantrums, peer conflicts, and other off-task behaviors.
Classroom Management in an Inclusive Montessori Environment
Learn how to fully integrate an inclusive classroom model that meets the needs of diverse learners.
Making it Stick: The Anatomy of the Effective Lesson
This webinar teaches the anatomy of effective lessons. It includes an analysis of the pedagogy of the Three-Period Lesson.
Humor & Playfulness in the Classroom
Presented by Biff Maier, this video will explore how to kindle students’ imaginations, stimulating their capacity for investigation, work, and conceptual understanding.
Daydreamers, Drafters, Drifters, and Doers: Part 1
Learn about the 4 D’s: Daydreamers, Drafters, Drifters, and Doers, including the behaviors we see of them in the classroom and individual characteristics of each.
Using Stories to Teach Math
In this webinar, you'll be invited to think about the importance of story and how it aids learning. We will discuss how story can play a role in learning math, and you will come away with stories to use in your learning environment.
Rediscovering the Principles & Practices of the Sensorial Materials
In this session, you will get back in touch with the roots of Sensorial education, including the precise presentation of the materials.
The Effect of Parenting Styles on Students in the Classroom
This video will present four basic parenting styles and how they impact children in the classroom. Learn how these styles present themselves in the areas of discipline, communication, nurturance, and expectation.
Respecting Each Child’s Learning Differences
This workshop will clarify special-education vocabulary, evaluation processes, current laws and policies, and more, through a historical lens.
Mindfulness and Education for Peace
This presentation will address the need for intentionality in keeping the spirit of peace alive in the Montessori classroom and school, and explain how mindfulness activities can play a vital part in this.
Conducting Effective Parent Teacher Conferences
Learn how to prepare for and conduct regularly scheduled parent-teacher conferences. Ideas will be shared for creating opportunities for productive, open communication for all involved, and to avoid common pitfalls in communicating with parents.
Habits and Why They Matter: Part 1
In the first of a 3-part webinar, learn about how habits are formed—the first step to creating the types of habits we want and need in our Montessori environments.
How to Handle Challenging Conversations with Parents
This presentation offers you both useful perspective and language to use in communicating with parents.
Neurodiversity, Pathology, Cognition and Normalization: A Critical Reflection
How views of neurodiversity, pathology, and cognition can inform education research and Montessori practitioners’ understanding of normalization.
Trauma & Stress, Session 1: Understanding the Effects on Children
Gain an understanding of how exposure to traumatic events and/or adverse childhood experiences can influence a student’s physical, cognitive, and social-emotional abilities.
Daydreamers, Drafters, Drifters, and Doers: Part 2
In this webinar, we continue the discussion started in Part 1 of the 2-part series about the 4 D’s: Daydreamers, Drafters, Drifters, and Doers.
Extensions for Geography and Science in the Children's House Classroom
Explore ways to think beyond ordinary extensions of the basic presentation of geography and science.
Radical Joy and Classroom Management
Transform your classroom from a space of mere survival into one filled with joy, and how this shift can impact your entire community.
Teacher as Conductor, Voice as Baton
Learn how to use your voice to influence your classroom climate, energy, and focus.
Personal Boundaries: Reinventing Classroom "Rules"
Learn three personal boundaries you can use immediately in the classroom to foster core building blocks in emotional intelligence.
Literacy Instruction for Children with Diverse Learning Needs
This presentation will provide an extensive and practical literacy continuum framework that will enable you to meet the needs of the wide range of development found within any group of literacy learners.
Loving the Unlovable Child
Explore solutions for maintaining equanimity during difficulty, and the incredible opportunities presented by "challenging" children.
Preparing and Planning Next Year's Curriculum
Join Rosemary Quaranta as you weave together the fibers of your classroom curriculum and plan for the new year.
AMS Learning Live: Specific Learning Disabilities – What Montessorians Need to Know
This session will focus on specific learning disabilities through a Montessori lens. You will learn about benchmarks and flags in the Primary years and how each specific learning disability manifests in the Elementary years alongside Andrée Rolfe
Trauma & Stress, Session 3: Burnout is Real: Managing the Stress of the Classroom
Learn techniques that will support your emotional health, allow you to find work life balance while continuing to meet the needs of your classroom.
ADHD and Executive Function: Managing the Impact on Learning, Motivation and Behavior
Identify how behavior and learning challenges impact students’ ability to successfully utilize classroom learning and perform.
Starting Off the School Year for Reading Success
Drawing from her work on classroom-based assessment in Montessori schools, Linda will provide an overview of developmental benchmarks in reading and specific ways that Montessori teachers can learn about children in relation to those benchmarks in the first 6 weeks of school.
To Educate the Human Potential
Join us as we approach Montessori from psychological and philosophical perspectives.
So ABAR, What is it Anyway?
Explore the goals of ABAR education for both children and adults and discover the connections between ABAR and Montessori philosophy.
Differentiated Montessori Instruction for Children with Learning Differences
Come review the essentials for serving all your students, and learn simple modifications to presentations of Montessori lessons to best serve children with learning differences.
Educate Your Senses Through Mindfulness
Whether you’re a professed skeptic or an eager novice, you’re likely to benefit from this (re)introduction to mindfulness. This webinar will help you discover what it may offer you personally, how it may benefit your students, and provide you with ways to cultivate and normalize your personal practice.
Understanding Montessori’s Core Components as a Basis to our Reflective Practice
An in-depth exploration of the core components of Montessori education.
Common Core in the Early Childhood Classroom
This webinar will offer insights into how to align Montessori curriculum at the Early Childhood level with Common Core learning standards.
Weaving the Wild
Dive into ecoliteracy and its relationship to the Cosmic Curriculum with Kelly Johnson and learn fun ways to weave more nature and creativity into your classroom.
Oral Language Development for Typical and At Risk Children, Part 1
Dr. Joyce Pickering will cover the development of speech and language for both typically and atypically developing children. An oral language curriculum, which augments the Montessori nomenclature will be discussed in this two-part webinar.
The Culturally Responsive Prepared Environment
This workshop will provide checklists for determining the potential bias of our materials, as well as give specific examples of materials that exemplify diversity
The Prepared Adult: Understanding and Managing Ourselves to Better Serve the Child
Turn negative energy into positive outcomes.
Whole School Communities - What They Are and How to Build Them
Our presenters will discuss what we need to create community beyond the classroom; ways to assist children across ages in assuming contributing roles; and opportunities for how you can be an active member of your school community beyond the walls of your classroom.
Special Needs Differentiation in the Early Childhood Classroom
Learn how to best serve students with exceptionalities through case studies and by examining AMS’s Montessori Inclusion Endorsement.
Positive Discipline for Montessori Classrooms
This session will focus on the congruence of Alfred Adler and Maria Montessori’s view of children, peace education, and methodology for preparing a social-emotional environment that cultivates mutual respect, cooperation, and responsibility.
A Template for Parent Workshops: “Building Collaborative Relationships Through Grace and Courtesy”
This workshop will provide a template for creating your own parent presentations.
Redirection with Infants and Toddlers
This workshop will focus on how to respectfully redirect, set developmentally appropriate limits, and validate feelings with infants and toddlers.
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