Montessori Training Centre of BC
A Place of Education for adults on the nature of childhood
Montessori Assistants to Infancy – Diploma Course
OUR NEXT A TO I COURSE IS COMING IN 2025! STAY TUNED FOR MORE INFORMATION!
“Whoever touches the life of the child,
touches the most sensitive point of a whole
which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.”
Maria Montessori
Assistants To Infancy (0-3) Director of Training
Gabriela Velázquez
AMI BIRTH TO THREE
TRAINER & CONSULTANT
Gabriela obtained her AMI (Association Montessori Internationale) diploma in Early Childhood from IMMAC in Mexico City and has worked for over 20 years in Montessori environments in Mexico and the United States.
Gabriela completed the rigorous AMI Training for Trainers program to become an AMI trainer for the 0-3 year age group. She has worked in AMI training courses for guides and assistants for 0-3 years in Argentina, Canada, China, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Taiwan, and the United States.
Gabriela Velázquez is the A to I training director at the Stoppani Montessori Institute (Mexico), Southwest Institute of Montessori Studies (United States), Washington Montessori Institute (United States), the Foundation for Montessori Education (Toronto, Canada) and here at the MTCBC (Vancouver, Canada).
She serves as a speaker, consultant, examiner, and AMI training director.
Diploma granted
The Montessori Training Centre of British Columbia (MTCBC) works in affiliation with the Association Montessori Internationale. The courses offered must meet rigorous standards, in both content and teaching staff. The Diploma awarded by the MTCBC is in great demand by Montessori Schools both nationally and internationally. Individuals must enquire what local requirements set out by government regulatory bodies must also be met when applying for teaching positions.
Assistants to Infancy students are trained to work with parents perinatally, assist with the infant at birth, prepare beautiful and responsive environments, work in infant and toddler communities in schools and day care settings and in hospitals – wherever children under the age of three are found!
British Columbia Infant Toddler Educator 0 – 3
Infant Toddler Educator Certificate (ECE, Post Basic) The Assistants to Infancy Course is accredited by the provincial government. Graduates who hold an ECE certificate in British Columbia qualify for the Post Basic Infant Toddler Educator Certificate upon completion of the course. Applications for a certificate are sent to the Early Childhood Educator Registry, Ministry of Children and Family Development.
Assistants to Infancy Course Overview
The AMI Montessori Assistants to Infancy Training course graduates are prepared to be Montessori Infant Toddler Educators to work with parents perinatally, assist with the infant at birth, prepare beautiful and responsible environments, direct Infant Toddler Communities in schools and day care settings, in hospitals, and wherever children under the age of three are found!
- Montessori Pedagogy and Philosophy: the natural development of the child from conception to three years of age
- Anatomy and Physiology
- Obstetrics Prenatal, birth, and postnatal development
- Nutrition and Hygiene Maternal care, digestive system, food preparation, and health issues
- Personality Development: The Nervous System and normal psychological development
- Development of Movement and Development of Language
- Environment Preparation of the home, Nido, and Infant Community as an aid to human development within the first three years of life
- Music, Art, and Social/Emotional Development
- Material Making Hand-made materials
- Observations: Practical training for observation of infants and toddlers in homes and Infant Communities
- Practicum in a Montessori Infant Community directed by an AMI Assistants to Infancy Diploma holder.
- Preparation of reference and curriculum albums
Requirements for Certification
The Montessori Assistants to Infancy Diploma is granted upon satisfactory completion of the course requirements in:
- 90% attendance at lectures and supervised practice
- 250 hours observation and observation summaries of infants and toddlers which includes a one week practice in a Montessori Infant Community and 15 hours of community/social service
- material making assignments
- written assignments and research paper on the Symbiotic Period
- reference albums and resource manuals
- passing grades on written examinations
- passing grades in oral examinations conducted by Examiners of the AMI
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Contact
Registrar: Adrienne Klassen – admissions@mtcbc-ami.org
Location
Montessori Training Centre of British Columbia Campus
1410 Nanton Ave. , Vancouver, BC V6H 2E2
(Entrance at corner of Nanton Ave. & Cartier St.)
* This program has been approved by the Private Training Institutions Branch (PTIB) of the Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills & Training.