---------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to register for the program Step 1 Obtain an application form for registration. a) Email to - admin@montessoriteachertraining.com and request an application b) Call 2723411 and request an application form c) Write to 42 College Avenue, Mt. Lavinia and request an application form or call 2723411 and give your name and Step 2 Fill the application and return to 42 College Avn., Mt. Lavinia or email back to admin@montessoriteachertraining.com. Mail or hand over the application to our Colombo office. If you have any questions or any clarification, please email to us Step 3 On submission of the application we will issue a student number. Once you receive your student number, you need to go to any branch of Commercial bank and deposit the relevant Registration fees and the first course fees installment. Please refer to the fees schedule that was given to you. Please email to admin@montessoriteachertraining.com and request for your fees schedule or request from our Mount Lavinia office. You will not be issued with a receipt for the payment. Please make a photocopy of the bank pay in slip and keep it for your self and return the original to the Mt. Lavinia office. Mt. Lavinia office is not authorized to accept money. If you pay it to the Mt. Lavinia office, please make sure to obtain your bank pay in slip. If the money is not received to the bank, you are considered as not paid the fees. Important Payment Information Monthly Installments Bank A/C No 8470005485 Registration and Examination fees Bank A/ C No Name of the Account – Colombo Montessori Teacher Training Centre Important Please mention the Student Number” in the bank slip and ask the bank teller to include your full student number. For example If you have been given W234E as your student number, You should include the full number. If you avoid W and give only 234E it will go to a different student account. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to pay your course fees and Examination fees. Center is not responsible for any deposit made to the bank without your student number or payments made to any other place or person other than a branch of Commercial Bank Step 1 a)Obtain your fees schedule by Emailing to us or from our Colombo office. b)Make payments according to the scheduled date or before the schedule time c) Make sure that you make the payment to a branch office of Commercial Bank d) Make sure that you enter the correct account number and the beneficiary name e) Make sure that you entered your student number clearly in the bank pay in slip Step 2 f) Make sure that you will take a photocopy of the paid bank pay in slip g) Please hand over the original bank pay in slip to Our Colombo office. h) Please check with your fees schedule and pay your sectional examination fees two weeks before the scheduled dates. Final Examination should be paid three weeks before the examination date. Examinations dates can be adjusted according to your course lecturers j) There are four sectional examinations and one final examination. Delay Payments You should make all payments according to the schedule given to the student. Schedule will vary from one program to another. If you fees delay more than three days from the scheduled date, you will be charged 5% extra as penalty. After the scheduled date, every week, there will be an additional delay charge of 5% added on to your monthly fees. For example, if your schedule due date for the first installment is November 17, and you paid it on December 2, your fees would be as follows; Monthly installment Rs. 30000 Late fees 1st week Rs. 150 ( Nove 17 to Nove 27) Late Fees 2nd week Rs. 150 ( Nove 28 to Dece 2) Your total fees due for the particular month is Rs 3300 If you pay only the course fees after the delaying up to December 2, penalty will be carried forward until you pay it. Until full balance has been paid the results and the certificate will not be issued. Some time you will not be able to sit for the final examination. If you delay your monthly installment more than two weeks, you will not be allowed to follow lectures until you full paid your monthly installment for the particular month. Delay payment mercy application If your delay is due to unforeseen circumstances or sudden financial difficulty or any other valid reason, you can write and inform to our office or you can email to us. You should make this application on or before the scheduled due date. Once we receive a written request to wave the penalty, we will consider the request. We may request some documentary proof to support your request. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Information about Montessori Teacher Training Be serious about your training. You are going to be a Professional Montessori Teacher. You are going to be responsible for the lives of precious little children. Always keep it in mind. Your Training 1. Classroom Lectures 2. Practical Training Workshop 3. Independent Studies 4. Practical Training with Children 5. Examinations 1. Classroom Lectures It is important for you to attend all the lectures. You are required to attend minimum of 90 % lectures. If you are unable to attend for any scheduled lecture in the program, please inform the Colombo office or inform us by emailing. We may be able to arrange a makeup class for a small fee. You will not be granted any make up classes if you have not paid the monthly installment up to date. You will be given a schedule of lectures. Some time lecture schedules can be changed according to different lecturers. Lectures are scheduled for 12 months period. Lectures will be conducted during the weekends. Practical workshop training will be conducted during week days. Printed Notes and demonstration diagrams are provided free of charge. If you wish you can bring your own paper and pencils or pens for taking down notes from lectures. There will be demonstrations of Montessori Apparatus for practical training. There will be lectures for theory and Child Psychology subjects. This course has been incorporate with a Child Psychology curriculum. If you need to gain our Diploma in Child Psychology certification, you will have to offer extra additional subjects. If you are interested, please refer under child Psychology. You can qualify for Diploma in Child Psychology parallel to your Diploma in Montessori Method of Education. If you need further information, please email to us. 2. Practical Training Workshop Practical workshops are conducted four days a week during week days. It is necessary for Trainees to attend workshop training. Please contact your workshop lecturer to find out minimum number of workshop hours that you should cover. During the workshop training, the lecturer will demonstrate correct way of handling apparatus. You will be given opportunities to practice using Montessori Apparatus in the presence of the Workshop lecturer. If you make mistakes, the workshop lecturer will correct them. Until you are through with your material, you can practice. We do not recommend you to do practical training with the children until you are ready and gained confidence with the Montessori apparatus. Children should not be considered as your training material or tools. You can not afford to make errors with the children. Children are precious to the parents and to the world. They can not be used as training instruments. We advise you that to be through with your training before handling children Currently we do not charge extra for workshop training. Make use of this opportunity . We may charge a fee in the future for practical training. We need you to be a Professional Montessori Teacher. Minimum number of work shop hours attendance recommended by the center will be counted for the final examination. 3. Independent Studies You are required to prepare a Montessori Teaching Project independently. We need to asses your knowledge and we need to asses how you will apply your knowledge to the child. All what you have studied should be used to construct this project. Every step of this project will be guided by your practical lecturer. This project work should be prepared like a book so that any time of your carrier you can refer to your training. We need our trainees to go to the world with confidence like expert professional teachers. You can construct the project at home. It is not done in the class room to save time and for you to make effort with your training. Your project work will be assessed and given marks. Marks will be counted for the final examination. This project work book is very important as a feed back to us to review our training. After the corrections and marks we return the project work book back to the trainee. 4. Practical Training with the Children We always ask you to be thorough with the Montessori material and equip with the knowledge of handling children. You will gain practical training through your practical classroom lectures and work shop training. You will learn how to handle children in Child Psychology studies. Once you are ready to handle children, we recommend you to start teaching children to gain practical training with the children. There is minimum of hours training. You should cover the stipulated training hours with the children before your Diploma. Please contact your lecturer for detail or email to us. We do not recommend you to begin working with the children as soon as you commence your training. Your lecturer will inform you the time that you are ready. We can not use children as training material. They are precious. We can not teach children with trial and error. 5. Examinations There will be four intermediary examinations for practical training. Examinations are oral. We expect the students to well prepared for these examinations to receive pass marks. There will be two examinations at the end of the training period. Child Psychology practical training. These two final examinations are written and oral. There will be an examination fees for each examination. You should pay the examination fees two weeks before the examination. Please note that every payment that you make to the bank, mention your Student ID Number. 6. Process of Examination Results and Certification Oral examinations will be done after every section or module. There will be a final written examination for practical training. Also another written examination for theoretical training which include child psychology and school management. You are required to forward a Montessori school work project. This projects should cover all aspect of practical training. Process of correcting your project work book and marking them and correcting your examination will take some time. Please leave some reasonable time for this process. Once the marking is done, the certificates and result sheets are prepared and sent to our affiliate for recording. Please leave a time allowance for this process. We try to issue your certificates at your earliest. Some time it may delay more than 6 months. Some time we may be able to issue them sooner than that if every thing come in line as we expect. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Discipline It is important that all Trainee Teachers should observe the Colombo Montessori Teacher Training Center rules and regulations. All Trainee Teachers should maintain good discipline and conduct during lecture, workshop hours and in the premises. If we find any trainee is not observing our rules and regulations we will be compelled to terminate such trainees. We will not refund any money paid to the center to terminated trainees. It is important that trainee teachers should maintain good conduct and discipline because you are going to be examples to the children. Be courteous during the examination times. At the end of each section of training, you will be tested. This testing will be counted for your final examination. If you come down in any sectional examination, you can re offer. Please make arrangements with your lecturer. Avoid arguments with the staff members and co trainees. Avoid conflicts. Avoid bringing strangers to the classroom and to the premises. Avoid using cell phones in the class room. If you have any issue regarding the lecturers or office staff please feel free to email to us. We will maintain these issues as very privet and confidante. We value your feed back to the management to provide you with better training and service. Examination results are final. Students can re-offer examinations at a future time but not later than one year period. Please note that we expect courteous behavior by all trainees until you complete your training and obtain your certificates. We expect all teacher trainees to maintain good characters, good attitude and self discipline. No trainee student should bring disgrace to the training center or act disgracefully. You should not make any payments to any staff member. All fees should be deposited at any branch of Commercial Bank. If you do not pay your monthly installment regularly according to the scheduled time, we will be compelled to stop you continue training. If we ask you to forward bank deposit slips for your fees you may have to forward them before the certificate are issued. If you delay your payments, your results and certificate can be delayed. Professional Ethics as a Montessori Professional We give membership to our training center students those who have successful in passing the final examination and obtain the certification. We list all Diploma holders from 2006 on word. We list all our Diploma Holders in our member results page. If any one violate any one of the following ethical standards, will be removed from the Diploma Holders list and will be listed in a different page as Diploma Holders removed from the Diploma Holders list due to disciplinary reasons or as violators of professional ethics.
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Colombo Montessori Teacher Training
Colombo Montessori Teacher Training Centre
in Affiliation with American Montessori International
Affiliated Montessori International Teacher Training
in Affiliation with American Montessori International
Affiliated Montessori International Teacher Training
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