Eagle Montessori Teaching Academy’s Early Childhood course provides students with comprehensive preparation to implement Montessori philosophy and materials with children ages 2.5 to 6 years. We offer a hybrid program with both online and (required) onsite instruction.
At this time, Eagle Montessori Teaching Academy offers Primary training only. The Infant/Toddler program will be available in 2025.
Our Early Childhood course takes eighteen months to complete and consists of three distinct phases:
- Online learning
- In-residence training
- Practicum Experience + online learning
Your program will begin with five months of weekly online sessions. Following this is an in-residence five-week academy taught on the campus of our training center in Eagle, Idaho. Upon successful completion of your residency, you will enter a nine-month student teaching practicum under the supervision of a qualified supervising teacher. (You may complete your student teaching with any approved supervisor.) During this phase, you will resume weekly online classes and participate in a monthly weekend seminar.
Students who successfully complete all coursework and their student teaching practicum will be awarded an American Montessori Society (AMS) credential, qualifying them to be an educator in an Early Childhood Montessori classroom as Lead Teacher.
✔135 academic online learning hours
✔200 academic in-resident hours
✔ 30 academic online practicum seminar hours
✔ 540 practicum student teaching hours
✔20 hours of independent observations
✔✔ 925 total hours ✔✔