9-11 November – Application for the Montessori Method with Children with Special Educational Needs at Preschool Age
Karin Dom is pleased to invite you to an upcoming training session on:
“Application for the Montessori Method with Children with Special Educational Needs at Preschool Age”.
The program was approved by order RD09-1365/03.07.2023 of 02-08-2023 of the Minister of Education and Science. The training lasts 32 hours (in person) and carries 2 credits.
Dates: November 9-11, 2023 from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Venue: Karin Dom, Varna, 86A Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd.
Participation fee: BGN 340
The training is suitable for: Specialists working in the education system and the social sphere, assistant teachers, parents
Method of completion:
– Test check
– Pedagogical specialists working in the education system receive a Certificate with 2 qualification credits.
– Other training participants receive a certificate.
Facilitators: A training team of Karin Dom – Svetla Todorova – Montessori teacher and speech therapist, Zhechka Ivanova – Montessori teacher
Description: Theoretical and practical program that presents the Montessori method of teaching and upbringing as an alternative method to support the development of children with special educational needs in preschool age. The role of adults in a child’s life is to support them in the best possible way and respond to their needs in various aspects – physical, cognitive, emotional and social. The pedagogical system of Maria Montessori provides knowledge about this and is an opportunity to achieve positive results in the development of the child and for them to develop their full potential as a result of organized activities by applying the method or elements of it. The program includes nineteen main topics and four hours of observation of work with children with special educational needs in a prepared Montessori environment.
Main topics:
- “Specific features in the development of children with special educational needs – motor sphere, sensations and perceptions, memory, thinking, speech”,
- “Introduction to the Montessori method – start and establishment”,
- “Phases and sensitive periods in human development”,
- “Elements of the Montessori Method”,
- “The role of the adult in the child’s life”,
- “Movement Development”,
- “Development of speech”,
- “Development of independence”,
- “Montessori therapy – object, goals and content”,
- “Principles of Montessori therapy based on classical Montessori pedagogy”,
- “Areas of the prepared Montessori therapeutic environment”,
- “Principles on which the work of the teacher/therapist with children with special educational needs in the implementation of Montessori therapy is based”,
- “Working with children with learning and other difficulties in a Montessori environment to acquire elementary school skills, social skills, life skills, adaptive skills”,
- “Children’s relationship with nature when applying Montessori therapy”,
- “Application of the Montessori method in organizing open educational space”,
- “Occupational therapy as part of Montessori therapy”,
- “Children’s creativity in a Montessori environment”,
- “Activities in the kitchen as part of Montessori therapy”,
- “Practical Guidelines for Making Montessori Materials.”
Contacts: Magdalena Tsoneva – Training Center Manager Phone: 0878 302 517, e-mail: mtsoneva@karindom.org
