Montessori Learning Circle for Internationalisation (Wednesday 18 November, 16.00 – 17.30)
Dutch Network Secondary Montessori Schools in cooperation with Dutch Montessori Association and Montessori Europe

Pantarijn, an ‘Eco School’ and developing ‘Global Citizen School’ based in Wageningen, the Netherlands, is taking the lead in the ‘Week of the International Student’ by organising an ‘inspiration-session’, launching a learning circle focusing on the internationalisation of secondary Montessori education (VMO).

Programme

Gabriël Enkelaar, Pantarijn School, Wageningen, the Netherlands

• Welcome and “why a Montessori learning circle for internationalisation?”

Arjen Wals, Professor Transformative Learning for Socio-ecological Sustainability & UNESCO Chair
(see his vision in this 2 minute video): 

• Why is internationalisation and sustainability education more important and promising
  now than ever before?
• How can networks like our Montessori Learning Circle for Internationalisation, the cooperation “Learning for tomorrow” and the “‘Global citizen Network” support teachers and pupils in secondary Montessori schools?

Judith Cunningham, CEO Montessori Model United Nations and Vice-President Montessori Europe

• As educators of adolescents, how do we prepare the adolescents we work with:
• for the times in which they live,
• the justice they seek and
• the world they are to inherit
• How can we create intersectionality between the developmental interests of our students and the need to build a more sustainable, inclusive world?
• How can Montessori Europe, Montessori Model UN and the Youth Impact Forum support ‘a Dutch learning-circle for internationalisation?

Joanne Malotaux, Lecturer, Biology, University of Wageningen, the Netherlands, Education Innovator and recently hailed as the most ‘sustainable teacher’ in the Netherlands:

·         How can a ‘learning garden’ contribute to insight and consciousness about sustainability and contribute to more cohesive education in this field and ‘learning for life’.

 

 

19 – 26 October 2020:   All Montessori Roads Lead to Rome – CANCELLED –

Montessori Europe, in conjunction with Montessori Express 2020, has created an opportunity to participate in the special celebration of the 150th birthday of Maria Montessori, with the International Montessori Congress hosted by Dr. Montessori’s founding organisation, Opera Montessori Nazionale (ONM), in Rome.  Montessorians will gather together from across the world to touch the historical context of Montessori and be refreshed by new research and findings on the child. Furthermore, the Congress offers opportunities to visit important Montessori landmarks and see a curated exhibit of Montessori’s original materials. This is an opportunity you do not want to miss. 

The Montessori Express trip ‘All roads lead to Rome’ in October 2020 has been cancelled. Due to the uncertain times we live in, the number of registrations was too low to make the trip possible.

Making Getting There Fun
The Montessori Express Bus will take us from Amsterdam to Rome and back. This is an Environmentally Sensitive Trip and you can ‘hop on’/ ‘off’ the Montessori Express at the airports of Amsterdam, Ede-Wageningen NS, Frankfurt and Munich. 
The organized trip has the following components:

• 19 October Montessori Express Bus: Amsterdam – Ede – Frankfurt – Munich
• 19 October accommodation incl. breakfast: Motel One München-Garching
• 20 October Montessori Express Bus: München – Rome
• 20-25 October: Rome accommodations at the Institute San Giuseppe di Cluny, a beautiful, quiet guesthouse with a private garden, located near the Colosseum
• 21 October Rome: Visit Casa dei Bambini and other ‘Montessori places of interest’
• 25-26 October Montessori Express Bus Return: Rome – Munich – Frankfurt – Ede – Amsterdam  (sleeping facilities in the luxurious touring bus)

Meals are only included where stated.
Cost of the trip
The cost of the trip is €925 for double room accommodation, €975 for single room accommodation.
Options
The trip offers additional options to personalize your travel, which you need to book directly with the organizers:

• 22-23 October (two alternatives):
  1.  Teacher training program Montessori Model United Nations
      or
  2.  Teacher training program Youth Impact Forum
• 24-25 October: International Montessori Congress by Opera Montessori Nazionale https://www.operanazionalemontessori.it/congresso/en/

Please note the early bird rate for the Congress, available until 22 March.

The Montessori Express trip ‘All roads lead to Rome’ in October 2020 has been cancelled. Due to the uncertain times we live in, the number of registrations was too low to make the trip possible.

See the document “Terms and Conditions of the Montessori Express Rome-trip” the Questions and Answers and the “Travel Schedule” for more details.

Please inform other Montessorians about this event!