Please print this form and mail the completed survey to:
Montessori Education Center of Arizona
c/o Teacher Training Program Survey
51 E. Glendale Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85020

Please include the application, two copies of a recent passport size photograph with transcripts and registration fee of $50. Make checks payable to Director, Montessori Education Center, Phoenix, Arizona.

Please give your detailed answer to the following questions:

Background

1. Your major field of study and reasons for selection of your major:

2. What practical experience have you had working with groups or community organizations?

3. What other practical experiences have you had in the physical/biological sciences music or art? how do you apply them to your present interest?

Montessori Training

1. Describe your first introduction to Montessori? What effect did it have on you?

2. What are your reasons for wanting to take the Montessori Teacher Training course?

3. Do you think you will be able to commit yourself to the orientation required of a Montessori Directors or Director in these personal aspects?

1. Calmness of manner and a kindly interaction with children.


2. Maintaining emotional stability and strength of inner spirit.


3. Perseverance in acquiring knowledge and awareness of the different cultural areas pertaining to the Cosmic plan of education.

Application of Montessori Training

1. To what ultimate goal will your Teacher Training be used?

2. What age group of children(0-3, 3-6, 6-12) interests you and why?

Special Attitudes

1. What are your definitions of freedom, discipline, independence, and responsibility? How do you apply them to yourself?

Freedom

Discipline

Independence

Responsibility

2. What do you think of the present educational system with respect to your definitions as stated above?

3. What is your idea of an ideal society? What would be your place in it?

Children

1. Where do you place children in the hierarchy of society and why?

2. What is your attitude towards children?

3. Describe the extent of your present interest in child development?