In response to ongoing requests for a variety of seminars for Montessori educators who have already completed their credential requirements, Seton Montessori Institute offers Professional Excellence Seminars. These seminars are designed to provoke thinking, expand classroom horizons and to stimulate participants’ educational leadership with both children and adults.  Continuing education documentation is provided for each seminar.

The continuing education documentation is arranged through the American Montessori Society (AMS) as well as Gateways to Opportunity (Illinois Professional Development System).

Below is a list of the programs we offered for the 2012-2013 Professional Excellence Seminars:

2012 Fall Semester:

Starting a Second Language with Loreto Wille

Montessori Why and How? A Modern Look with Dr. Steven Hughes

Discipline Tool-kit for the Infant-Toddler Educator with Susan Tracy McDaniel

Attention and Memory: The Core Foundations for Learning with Drina Madden and Dr. Valerie Nowinski

2013 Spring Semester:

Building Advanced Math Competence for Early Childhood with Karen Riggenbach

Where Do Dandelions Fly? with Geoffrey Bishop

Growing with the Table of Pythagoras with Rosemary Quaranta

Bookmaking as a Creative Practice with Pat Pinciotti and Rosemary Quaranta

Sparking Wonder with the Timeline of Life Studies with Ashley Buntrock and Rosemary Quaranta

Please contact Elizabeth Norman at beth@setonmontessori.org should you have any suggestions for presenters or topics as we are in development of the upcoming 2013 Fall Semester and 2014 Spring Semester.