The American Montessori Society (AMS) Montessori Inclusion Endorsement (MIE) is designed for the credentialed Montessori teacher who seeks knowledge and skills for fully integrating an inclusive classroom model that meets the needs of diverse learners. The endorsement incorporates the teacher and learner practices used in Montessori schools, while recognizing and honoring the needs of children with learning exceptionalities.
The MIE course covers a Montessori approach to guiding children with a broad spectrum of learning variances. Educators will come away with the ability to support all types of thinkers; work with intervention specialists, therapists, and parents; and create individualized learning plans for children with learning differences.
It includes an academic component and a practicum.
I now am a faculty member and teach coursework for one of the two AMS Teacher Education Programs in the country that offer the Montessori Inclusion Endorsement (MIE) program, West Side Montessori School's Teacher Education Program. WSMS-TEP's Montessori Inclusion Endorsement program
Publications
Montessori inclusion: Strategies and stories of support for learners with exceptionalities
Ann Epstein, Natalie Danner
Ann Epstein, with Natalie Danner, Parent-Child Press, 2020
Natalie Danner
Montessori inclusion: Strategies and stories of support for learners with exceptionalities, Ann Epstein, Natalie Danner, Parent-Child Press, 2020, pp. xi-x
Montessori and Non-Montessori Early Childhood Teachers' Attitudes Toward Inclusion and Access
Natalie Danner, Susan A. Fowler
Journal of Montessori Research, vol. 1(1), 2015 Oct 13, pp. 28-41
Early childhood inclusion in a public Montessori school: Access, participation, and supports
Natalie Danner
2015 Mar 20