Mrs. Beridiana Leyva
I am originally from Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. I began my early childhood education at Arizona State University and my Montessori career in 2002 as a teacher’s assistant at Montessori Day School in the adolescent program. In 2003 I received my formal Montessori training and certification from Nimal Vaz at the Montessori Education Center of Arizona. I am a certified primary lead instructor (3-6 years of age) receiving the Montessori Diploma (May 19, 2003) from Association Montessori Internationale.
With over 19 years of Montessori classroom experience including the toddler level, I am also a mom to three children and four dogs. All my children have been Montessori educated. In my 19 years in the Montessori field I have worked on over 10 different schools. My two oldest children graduated high school and my youngest is a junior in High School. I love dogs and I am training a Rottweiler to be a service dog for Phoenix Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Maria Montessori coined the phrase “Learning for Life” when she developed her method, however, I believe learning for life should begin at the beginning.
I believe the first learning opportunity begins before birth and we should begin Montessori at birth. This is what makes the Amauri Montessori Program unique. Our vision is to provide a Montessori approach that maximizes the learning for life opportunity from birth. At birth, begins the first critical learning stage that needs to be maximized. Birth is the first developmental stage and the beginning of LEARNING FOR LIFE.
The Children’ Reading Foundation says that LEARNING BEGINS AT BIRTH: The science is clear. From the time a child is born, he or she is learning every waking moment. In fact, babies and toddlers are either learning or sleeping. And between birth to age 5, a child learns at a speed unmatched the rest of his or her life! It is during these years – when more than 85 percent of a child’s brain is formed – that crucial brain connections are created. These connections help develop indispensable academic, social and cognitive skills, which are the basis for learning.
‘Free the child’s potential, and you Transform them into the world’. -Dr. Maria Montessori
LEARNING FOR LIFE
I was introduced to a Montessori classroom during a tour for a college class to experience a different curriculum from traditional education. In the Montessori classroom the children were independently performing different tasks, helping each other, inmerce in concentration at an early age, seeing happy faces and a feeling of accomplishment on what they were doing.
I immediately fell in love with the concept “Montessori is a teaching for life” since then I was able to provide a Montessori experience to my own 3 children, now 23, 19 & 17years old. They all have successful Montessorian stories to share.
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