JFA Montessori Teacher Training Center

Recognised as an AMI Affiliated Host Centre, awaiting full Training Centre Status

JFA Montessori Teacher Training Center

Recognised as an AMI Affiliated Host Centre, awaiting full Training Centre Status

AMI Montessori Diploma 6-12

Overview

The prestigious AMI Diploma, originally developed by Maria Montessori in collaboration with her son, Mario Montessori, is the gold standard in Montessori education. With AMI training for the 6-12 age group, you can become a certified Montessori teacher, establish your own Montessori school, or apply this transformative approach in your home and community.

This blended-format course offers a deep dive into child development, psychology, and the Montessori method. Through a combination of online and in-person lectures, discussions, hands-on Montessori material practice, and real-world classroom experience, you will gain the expertise needed to teach authentic Montessori education.

For international students, the course’s short in-person modules ensure that a student visa is not required—making it accessible from anywhere in the world.

REGISTER INTEREST

The JFA Montessori Teacher Training Programme

The programme is closely integrated with the UK’s most established AMI Montessori elementary environment. As a trainee Montessori 6-12 teacher, you will have the opportunity to observe and gain hands-on teaching experience at our school while working alongside experienced educators who uphold the highest AMI standards.

Studying for an AMI Diploma (6-12) at the Maria Montessori Institute provides unparalleled access to a leading AMI exemplar school—ensuring a rich, immersive, and practical learning experience that prepares you to deliver authentic Montessori education worldwide.

What can I do with this qualification?

Work in Montessori classes for children between 6 and 12  anywhere in the world

Set up your own Montessori school or expand your school to include children from 6 to 12 years

Use your qualification in your work as a teacher, educator or school administrator or for social work, research in child development, nannying or childminding

Run ground-breaking child or family support programmes

Enhance and inform your approach with your own children

PROGRAMME FOR ELEMENTARY AMI (6-12) TRAINING COURSES

The course is intended to convey Dr. Maria Montessori’s views on how to help the child grow into an integrated being and develop a sense of belonging not only to a family or a nation but to the world.

The content of the Course is as follows:

  • Lectures on Montessori child psychology and educational theory and practice
  • Reading and studying Dr. Montessori’s books
  • Demonstration of materials and activities devised by Dr. Montessori.
  • Practice with materials and activities devised by Dr. Montessori.
  • Observation in classes led by an AMI directress
  • Teaching practice in classes led by an AMI directress
  • Written assignments by the students
  • Material creation by the students

Montessori Child Psychology and Child Development:

The child’s physical development; the radical changes that take place compared to the earlier age group; the psychological development of the child (tendencies/sensitive periods) compared to the earlier stage; and the continued development and growth of the child as a builder of human personality through the use of human tendencies and psychological characteristics specific to this age group.

Montessori Educational Theory:

Reviewing the Human Tendencies and Four Planes of Development: the use of imagination and the special characteristics of the child for exploration with the reasoning mind; the meaning of Cosmic Education and what it offers to the child; freedom and responsibility; the importance and practicalities of going out.

The Development of Language:

Review of language development in the child; the importance of language in developing intelligence and vocabulary; further extensions in reading; language exercises suited to the ‘sensitivities’ of the child of this age group, leading to reading with comprehension, or total reading.

The following items are covered: the story of language, the history of writing, word study, grammar boxes and related classification; from short stories to composition, paragraph structure and composition; appreciation and development of style; logical/sentence analysis; analysis of sentences (simple, compound, complex); and history of literature.

The Development of Mathematics:

Further development of the mathematical mind; indirect preparation leading to abstraction in mathematics; and the purpose and use of mathematical materials.

The following topics are covered: the story of numbers; continuation of the hierarchy of numbers—long multiplication and division; laws of operations; multiples, factors, and divisibility; group division; fractions—both vulgar and decimal and their related operations; squares and cubes of numbers; powers of numbers; bases (other than 10); from squaring to square root; from cubing to cube root; signed numbers; measurements; algebra; and word problems.

Geometry:

Concepts of equality, similarity, and equivalence; exploration with constructive triangles; study of polygons, circles, angles, and lines in all their details; equivalence of plane figures; area and related formulas; volume—from equivalency to the calculation of volume and formulas.

Cosmic Exploration:

Geography, biology, history and music are given as a framework of human needs in the natural and cultural environment and therefore for the child’s exploration.

Items include:

Geography: – throughout – stories, experiments, charts and activities. Creation of the earth. Composition of the earth.  The movements of the Earth and their consequences. The work of air/water. People living in different climatic zones. Interdependence of humans in society and economic  geography.

Biology: The prepared environment in botany; realisation of the needs of plants. The story of plants—the functions of leaves, roots, stems, flowers, fruits, and seeds, and their varieties; in zoology: story material on animals; examination of body functions; classification of plants and animals; and notes on ecology.

History: The vision of history according to Dr. Montessori. From geology to the coming of life. The first and second time lines of early human beings; the growth of culture. History charts—fundamental needs, research (question) charts, and migration charts. Representation of time.

Music: Listening, movement, singing, instruments, notation, advanced work in rhythm, and the tone bars.

The students are to read books of Dr Montessori and make use of them for both their written work/essays as well as practice with material and related discussions. The following books are compulsory:

To Educate the Human Potential

From Childhood to Adolescence

The Advanced Montessori Method, Vols. 1 & II

Education and Peace

The Absorbent Mind

Psychogeometry

Recommended reading:

Other books of Dr Maria Montessori:

The Discovery of the Child

The Child in the Family

The Secret of Childhood

Education for a New World

What You Should Know About Your Child

The Formation of Man

Maria Montessori’s 1946 London Lectures

The Child, Society and the World (ed. Schulz-Benesch)

By Mario M. Montessori Sr.:

The Human Tendencies and Montessori Education

By Mario M. Montessori Jr.:

Education for Human Development

Demonstration of the use of Montessori materials set within or against the background of Montessori child psychology; Special characteristics of these materials—as keys to culture, as opposed to didactic materials.

Practical sessions are conducted under the supervision of the Director of Training and directed by AMI-qualified staff. A minimum number of practice hours is compulsory, as stated in the AMI Agreement. Whenever possible, more practice hours are recommended.

Students are required to observe classes with an AMI directress. Daily observations for at least three hours per day should be scheduled over a minimum of five consecutive days to encompass the required minimum number of hours. Students are required to write reports on their observations, which are reviewed and discussed with the Trainer. Training staff may also visit students while they observe to provide direct insights into the observational process in schools.

Students are to practice teaching in classes under the supervision of experienced AMI directresses and the trainer(s) of the course. The minimum number of hours is stipulated in the AMI Agreement. The trainer, or a competent AMI pedagogue designated by the trainer, observes the students while they are practice teaching and reviews their progress. A written report is prepared.

Each student shall compile a material album (manual) for each area during the course. These albums should include an introduction to each area, a description of each piece of material, the age of the child, and the aims and purposes of the material. The albums are the student’s personal records of the work done during the course. Album work is supervised throughout the year, with a final assessment at the end of the course.

Each student shall compile a theory album containing essays based on Montessori philosophy, as given in the course.

Under supervision students will also engage in material making. It consists of time-lines and charts for classroom use. All such materials are checked by the Trainer.

Elementary Diploma Course Fee structure

For Indian nationals

Course fees for May 2025:

  • Early Bird Fee (registered by 30th March 2025) – Rs. 1,80,000/-
  • Discounted Course Fee (paid in 1 instalment) – Rs. 1,75,000/-
  • Standard Course Fee (paid in 3 instalments) – Rs. 1,90,000/-

Further information:

  • Non-refundable Rs. 1,500/- application fee
  • Rs. 25,000 deposit on acceptance of course place (offset against your first fee payment)
  • AMI examination fee of Rs. 34751 which includes student membership of AMI and IMF

*GST as applicable.

Fee structure for Overseas Citizens of India (OCI), Non-Resident Indians (NRIs), and Foreign Nationals (Zone B) applicants.

Course fees for May 2025:

  • Early Bird Fee (Registered by 30th march 2025) – INR 2,64000/-
  • Standard Course Fee (paid in 3 instalments) – INR 308,000/-

Further information:

  • Non-refundable USD 20 application fee -INR 1760/-
  • USD 500 deposit on acceptance of course place (offset against your first fee payment) -INR 44000/-
  • AMI examination fee of USD 554 which includes student membership of AMI and IMF – INR 48,752/-

Fees structure for Foreign Nationals (Zone A) applicants.

Course fees for May 2025:

  • Early Bird Fee (Registered by 30th march 2025) – INR 506,000/-
  • Standard Course Fee (paid in 3 instalments) – INR 5,50,000/-

Further information:

  • Non-refundable USD 50 application fee -INR4400/-
  • USD 500 deposit on acceptance of course place (offset against your first fee payment) ) -INR 44000/-
  • AMI examination fee of USD 554 which includes student membership of AMI and IMF –INR 48752/-

Course Timing

BLENDED FORMAT

14th April 2025 to 18th December 2026

Onsite (8:45am - 4pm)

Summer 2025

5th May to 30th May

Summer 2026

4th May to 12th June

Winter 2026

23rd Nov to 18th Dec

Online (3:00pm to 6:30pm)

Fall 2025

18th Aug to 13th Sep

Spring 2026

27th Jan to 21st Feb

Fall 2026

17th Aug to 26th Sep

Hostel facility available for NRI and OCI students

Room Availabity

Lodging

Fooding

9000*GST

15000*GST

Note: For students who wish to avail hostel facilities, the following charges apply:

  • Non- Boarding (Without Food): 9000 per month (plus GST)
  • Boarding (With Food): 15000 per month (plus GST)
  • Hotel facility is available for NRI and OCI students.
  • Hostel is 8km away from the training centre.
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