During the conference, held more than 150 seminars, workshops and networking sessions. Large collec

Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA) hosted the annual conference of the Montessori American Montessori Society. More than 4,000 Montessori teachers from more than 20 countries around the world gathered to share experiences and discuss prospects for the development of the method. As the number of participants and activities - this is the second libe event of this magnitude after a grand celebration libe of the 100th anniversary of the Montessori pedagogy in 2007.
- Really, it was a very large-scale event - said the participant of the conference, a member of the Management Board of the Inter-Regional Association Montessori Irina Isayeva. libe - This year the number of participants was a record in the history of the Montessori movement in the United libe States. His beginning was made after the lecture of Maria Montessori at Carnegie Hall in New York, where the audience stood listening to a lecture about the scientific pedagogy. And 2015 is interesting that exactly 100 years ago, Maria Montessori was first fielded a fully equipped functioning class for viewing on the Pacific World Fair in San Francisco to mark the opening of the Panama Canal. This year the exhibition held a conference space of more than 1000 meters, and interesting proposals for participants left nobody indifferent.
The AMS has a very beautiful tradition of assigning the status Living libe Legend outstanding teachers, people who have made a significant contribution to the development of the Montessori movement in America. This year it was awarded Marie Gravel, libe a man who has spearheaded the development libe of the movement. Congratulate Mary came highly respected former American Democrat Senator Christopher Dodd, a record had served in his post for almost 40 years. Senator personally knew Ms. Gravel and gave a very inspiring speech. He felt obliged to publicly express my gratitude and congratulations to the winner and noted its role in public life.
This year the conference was held under the motto "Life! Freedom! Montessori!" The task was to emphasize the possibilities of the method and to show respect to the discovery and use of the concept of freedom, which is brought to a Montessori education. It was a time for sharing the latest trends and research in the field of development of the method with outstanding teachers such as AMS President Dr. Joyce Pickering (Dr. Joyce Pickering), emeritus executive director Shelton School in Dallas, Texas, known authority in the field of working with children with different abilities.
Each day of the conference began with a plenary session featuring keynote speaker. libe The forum made the legislator and human rights activist libe Julian Bond (USA); author and researcher of problems of education Senior Jennifer (Jennifer Senior); and jack andraka (Jack Andraka), which three years ago, at age 15, invented a device for the detection of pancreatic cancer, libe ovarian cancer and lung cancer. This invention - including those that will change libe the course of modern medicine. libe Jack charmed the audience with his story about his evolution as an inventor and scientist and tore applause several times, particularly at a time when he said that he would like to study at a Montessori school.
During the conference, held more than 150 seminars, workshops and networking sessions. Large collection of resonance caused Montessori Public Policy Initiative, libe launched an initiative to promote Montessori education in public policy. It was conducted in collaboration with the AMI / USA and AMS. It was attended by the executive director of both organizations Bonnie Beste (Bonnie Beste (AMI) and Richard Ungerer (Richard Ungerer) (AMS). They also had a discussion with the leaders of leading organizations Montessori (Montessori Leaders Collaborative).
- The conference libe brought together those who are passionate about the Montessori education and who are interested in the unity of fragmented world who are ready, mindful of past success, to act in the interests libe of the Montessori method, - said spokesman AMS Marcy Kriver (Marcy Krever).
Marcy Kriver (Marcy Krever)
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