List of 11 items.

• EC Course Components

  1. Independent Study
     • Focuses on reading and research covering Montessori principles and philosophy.
     • Includes assignments, essays, and observations in Montessori schools, with written reports documenting these experiences.
  2. Academic Phase
     • Total Hours: 330 hours (310 hours of scheduled classes + 20 hours of observations).
     • Content:
       • Lectures on Principles and Philosophy, Child Development, and Classroom Management (completed online via Canvas).
       • Demonstrations of Montessori materials (conducted in person).
       • Material Album Preparation.
  3. Practicum Phase
     • Total Hours: 540 hours (paid or volunteer internship in a Montessori school).
     • Focus:
       • Practice teaching experience with assigned observations, assignments, and evaluations.
       • Supervised and assessed by the Supervising Teacher and Practicum Supervisor.
  4. Final Evaluation
     • Includes Oral and Written Examinations.
     • Presentation of the Year’s Research Project and Material Albums.

   

• EL I-II Course Components

  1. Online Coursework (96 hours)
     • Content: Montessori Philosophy, Child Development, and Class Leadership
     • Format: Delivered online using Canva for materials and Zoom for live sessions
  2. In-Person Instruction (411 hours)
     • Location: Lakeview Montessori School
     • Focus: Hands-on study of Montessori materials  for Language, Math, Geometry, Sciences, Geography, History, Music & Movement, Physical Education, and Art.      
  3. Practicum (1080 hours)
     • Setting: Completed in a Montessori classroom
     • Classroom Age Group: Either 6-9 or 9-12 years old

  In total, the program combines online learning, in-person training, and extensive hands-on practicum experience.

• Entrance Requirements

  EC Course 
  

  • Should have a College diploma or University degree.
  • Applicants with an Ontario Secondary School diploma, some post secondary education and relevant experience will also be considered.
  • Must be at least 20 years old.
  • Preference will be given to those who have completed a University degree in a related field such as education, sociology or psychology.

  EL Course
  

  • Applicants must have a Bachelors degree. 
  • Must be at least 20 years old.

• Course Schedules

  Early Childhood Course
  Our Early Childhood hybrid courses commence December 10th, 2024, with weekly online classes for Montessori philosophy, class leadership and child development, followed by selected weekends of on-site classes during 2025 and finishing with online classes through to October 2025. All phases of work for the course must be completed before final examinations.  The Practicum portion of the course may be undertaken at any Montessori school and arrangements for practicum are the responsibility of the adult learner. Assistance will be given in making contact to arrange the practicum placement.
  
  Elementary I-II Course 
  Our Elementary I-II hybrid course commences May 9, 2024, with weekly online classes for Montessori Philosophy, Child Development and class leaderships followed by five and a half weekends of on-site classes in July/August 2024, followed by selected weekends of on-site classes during 2025. Elementary I will finish with one week of review and exams in July 2025. Elementary II continues with on-site classes for five weeks in July/August 2025 with review and exams August 18-20, 2025. 

   

• Scholarships & Grants for Montessori Teacher Education Programs

  AMS offers scholarships every year for partial payment of tuition for AMS affiliated Montessori Teacher ed programs.  Go to amshq.org and put Teacher Education Scholarships in the search, and you will pull up information on how to apply for these scholarships. 

   

  Canada has some grant programs and retraining programs which will pay for training.  For information on these, you can go to:
  
  

  Secondcareer.com which is a program to fund training for a new career for people who are not working, or working fewer hours than they want.  LMS Montessori Teacher Education Program is licensed as a private career college(ID # 103213), so is one of the programs that people can choose to take under the second career program. 

   

  Canada-Ontario Job Grants:  The Canada-Ontario Job Grant (COJG) provides direct financial support to individual employers or employer consortia who wish to purchase training for their employees. It is available to small, medium and large businesses with a plan to deliver short-term training to existing and new employees.  Employers can apply to have their employees Montessori teacher ed programs paid for through COJG. 

• Application Procedures

  All applicants must complete the enclosed application and return it with a deposit cheque of $500 Canadian and 3 post-dated cheques. Please include a current resume stating all education and experience, along with two-character references (at least one should be from someone who has seen you working with or caring for children). Once applicants have been accepted to a course, they must arrange for official University or College transcripts to be sent directly to LMS Teacher Education Program at Lakeview Montessori School.

• Course Fees

  Registration Fee $500

  Early Childhood Diploma $6000 Canadian
  Elementary I Course $6200
  Elementary I-II Course $10,000

  (Includes student manual, textbooks, lectures, Practicum supervision)
  
  

  
  NOTE: Practicum Supervision outside the city of Windsor will be subject to an additional mileage fee for visits.
  
  *$40 fee will be charged for NSF cheques and declined credit cards.
  
  

  REGISTRATION - Each student pays a registration fee to AMS to become a member of the organization. With their membership, each student receives the AMS magazine, Montessori Life, and reduced fees for AMS conferences as well as an AMS credential upon successful completion of all course requirements. (AMS fee is $340 CAN)

• Sexual Violence Policy

   

  LMS Montessori Teacher Education Program Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Policy

  1. Policy Application - This policy applies to all career college students of LMS Montessori Teacher Education Program.
  2. The Scope- The policy applies to complaints of sexual violence that have occurred on LMS Montessori Teacher Education Program’s career college campus or at one of our events and involves our students.
  3. Purpose and Intent - All of LMS Montessori Teacher Education Program’s career college students have a right to study in an environment free of sexual violence.  This document sets out our policy on sexual violence involving our students, defines the prohibited behaviours and outlines our investigative process for sexual violence. 
  4. Policy Objectives - LMS Montessori Teacher Education Program is committed to providing our students with an educational environment free from sexual violence and treating those students who report incidents of sexual violence with dignity and respect.

  To that end, LMS Montessori Teacher Education Program will provide a copy of the policy to our students, and educate them together with our career college management, employees, and contractors about this Policy and how to identify situations that involve, or could progress into sexual violence against our students and how to reduce it. 

  Where a complaint has been made, under this policy of sexual violence, LMS Montessori Teacher Education program will take all reasonable steps to investigate it, including as follows: 

  1. Providing on campus investigation procedures to students for sexual violence complaints.
  2. Responding promptly to any complaint and providing reasonable updates to the complainant and the respondent about the status of the investigation;
  3. Assisting students who have experienced sexual violence in obtaining counselling and medical care;
  4. Providing students who have experience sexual violence with appropriate academic and other accommodation; and
  5. Providing students who have experienced sexual violence with information about reporting options as set out in Appendix 1.

  5.  Definition of Sexual Violence -  This policy prohibits sexual violence which means any sexual act or act targeting a person’s sexuality, gender identity, or gender expression, whether the act is physical or psychological in nature, that is committed, threatened or attempted against a person without the person’s consent, and includes sexual assault, sexual harassment, stalking, indecent exposure, voyeurism, and sexual exploitation.

  6.  Reporting and Responding to Sexual Violence -  Students, faculty and staff of LMS Montessori Teacher Education program will take all reasonable steps to prevent sexual violence involving our students on our career college campus or events by reporting immediately to our LMS Teacher Education program Director, if our students have been subject to, or they have witnessed or have knowledge of sexual violence involving our students, or have reason to believe that sexual violence has occurred or may occur which involves our students.

  Subject to paragraph 7 below, to the extent it is possible, our LMS Teacher Ed. Director or designate will attempt to keep all information disclosed confidential except in those circumstances she believes an individual is at imminent risk of self-harm, or of harming another, or there are reasonable grounds to believe that others on our campus or the broader community are at risk.

  LMS Montessori Teacher Education program recognizes the right of the complainant to determine how her or his complaint will be dealt with.  However, in certain circumstances, LMS Montessori Teacher Education program may be required by law or its internal policies to initiate an internal investigation and/or inform police without the complainant’s consent, if it believes the safety of members of its campus or the broader community is at risk.

  A complainant seeking accommodation should contact our Director of LMS Montessori Teacher Education Program.

  7. Investigating Reports of Sexual Violence -   A complaint of sexual violence may be filed under this policy, by any student of our career college, to our LMS Teacher Education Program Director in writing.

  A: A complainant or party to an investigation or decision-making process has the right to have another person present with him or her at every stage of the process.

  B: Students who disclose their experience of sexual violence through reporting an incident of, making a complaint about, or accessing supports and services for sexual violence, will not be asked irrelevant questions during the investigation process by the career college’s staff or investigators, including irrelevant questions relating to the student’s sexual expression or past sexual history, or alcohol or drug use.

  C: During an investigation, LMS Montessori Teacher Education Program Director or designate will take interim corrective action to prevent continuing harassment while the investigation proceeds.  Such interim corrective action might include non-disciplinary leaves of absences for either or both the complainant and the respondent, or temporary transfers aimed at separating the parties until the investigation is complete.

  D: The victim of sexual violence may choose to request that there be no investigation by the career college,and has the right to not participate in any investigation that may occur.

  Upon a complaint of alleged sexual violence being made, our LMS T.Ed. Director or designate will initiate an investigation, including as follows:

  1. Determining whether the incident should be referred immediately to police;
  2. Determining what interim measures, if any, need to be taken during the investigation;
  3. Meeting with the complainant to determine the date and time of the incident, the persons involved, the names of any person who witnessed the incident and a complete description of what occurred;
  4. Interviewing the complainant, any person involved in the incident and any identified witnesses;
  5. Interviewing any other person who may have knowledge of incidents related to the complaint or any other similar incidents;
  6. Informing the respondent of the complaint, providing details of the allegations and giving the respondent an opportunity to respond to those allegations;
  7. Providing reasonable updates to the complainant and the respondent about the status of the investigation; and
  8. Determining what disciplinary action, if any, should be taken.

  8. Findings and Recommendations – A final report with recommendations on the investigation will be submitted to the LMS Teacher Education Director.

  The LMS Teacher Education Program Director or designate shall advise both the complainant and respondent whether sexual harassment was found to have occurred and what progressive disciplinary steps, if any, will be taken, up to and including discharges or expulsion from LMS.  If progressive discipline and/or discharge are recommended, appropriate steps shall come into effect.

  Any student or staff member of LMS Montessori Teacher Education Program who has a question about this complaint procedure may contact the LMS Director.

  9. Disciplinary Measures – If it is determined by LMS Montessori Teacher Education program that a student of our career college has been involved in sexual violence, immediate disciplinary or corrective action will be taken, up to and including termination of employment of instructors or staff or expulsion of a student.

  In cases where criminal proceedings are initiated, LMS Montessori Teacher Education Program will assist police agencies, lawyers, insurance companies, and courts to the fullest extent.

  Where criminal and/or civil proceedings are commenced in respect of allegations of sexual violence, LMS Montessori Teacher Education Program may conduct its own independent investigation and make its own determination in accordance with its own policies and procedures.

  10. Appeals - Appeals of any sanction decisions under this Policy may be submitted in writing to the LMS Teacher Education Program Director, or their designate, within ten (10) business days of receipt of decision.

  Appeals will be limited to the following grounds: a) Procedural error, b) New Information, c) The sanction imposed is not reasonable or is substantially disproportionate to the circumstances or offence. A written request for appeal must provide sufficient evidence to support one of the grounds above and shall include: 1) A statement for grounds of appeal, 2) Remedy or relief sought, 3) Copies of relevant documents or evidence that support the appeal, 4) In the event of new facts, copies of the evidence and an explanation as to why the evidence was not available earlier

  11. Making False Statements – It is a violation of this policy for anyone to knowingly make a false complaint of sexual violence or to provide false information about a complaint.  Individuals who violate this policy are subject to disciplinary and/or corrective action, up to and including termination of employment of instructors or staff or expulsion of a student.

  12. Reprisal – It is a violation of this policy to retaliate or threaten to retaliate against a complainant who has brought forward a complaint of sexual violence, provided information related to a complaint or otherwise been involved in the complaint investigation process.  Individuals who violate this policy are subject to disciplinary and/or corrective action, up to and including termination of employment of instructors or staff or expulsion of a student.

  13. Confidentiality – Due to the confidential nature of this sensitive matter, and to ensure protection of the employee’s privacy, LMS Director and designate will not disclose the name of the complainant, the respondent, or the circumstances related to the complaint to any person not directory involved in the investigation, except where disclosure is necessary for the purposes of investigating the complaint or for taking disciplinary measures in relation thereto.

  14. Review – This policy will be reviewed 3 years after it is first implemented.

  15.  Collection of Student Data – LMS Montessori Teacher Education Program shall collect and be prepared to provide upon request by the Superintendent of Private Career Colleges such data and information as required according to Subsections 32.2 (8), (9), and (10) of Schedule 5 of the Ontario Career Colleges Act, 2005 as amended. 

  16. Resources – Appendix 1 lists provincial rape crisis centres which could be provided as resources

  
  Appendix 1

  Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres, Ontario

  Assaulted Women’s Helpline, Toll free: 1-866-863-0511         TTY: 416-364-8762    www.awhl.org

  Francais – Fem aide, Toll free:  1-866-860-7082      www.femaide.ca

  Sexual Assault/ Domestic Violence Treatment Centres:

  Local-   Sexual Assault Crisis Centre of Essex County,    Crisis:  519-253-9667   www.saccwindsor.net  

   

• Payment Schedule

  The fees for the Early Childhood Montessori Education Course are $6,500 in total and will be paid as follows: A $500 Canadian registration fee must be handed in with the course registration form. The post-dated cheque schedule is as follows: the first term payment of $2000 is to be dated for Dec. 12th, 2024; the second term payment of $2000 must be dated March 5, 2025, third term payment of $2000 is to be dated July 5, 2025.

   

  The fees for the Elementary I-II Courses are $10,500 in total and will be paid as follows: A $500 Canadian registration fee must be handed in with the course registration form. The post-dated cheque schedule is as follows: the first term payment of $2000 is to be dated for May 9, 2024; the second term payment of $2200 must be dated July 3, 2024, third term payment of $2000 is to be dated Sept. 5, 2024 for section EI, and for EII section - fourth payment of $2000 June 10, 2025 and fifth term payment of $2000 August 1, 2025.

• Job Opportunities

   

  The demand for Montessori-trained teachers is rapidly increasing worldwide as more schools and families recognize the value of the Montessori approach in nurturing children’s independence, creativity, and critical thinking skills. Our program is committed to helping our students leverage this demand by providing them with updates and notifications about teaching opportunities across the globe. Whether you're interested in teaching locally or exploring international positions, we ensure that our students have access to a network of Montessori schools seeking qualified educators. From North America to Europe, Asia, and beyond, Montessori educators are in high demand, and we are dedicated to connecting our graduates with rewarding career opportunities that align with their passion and expertise.

• Key Performance Indicator Report

  https://data.ontario.ca/dataset/private-career-colleges-pcc-key-performance-indicators