European Nienhuis Montessori Retreat 2014

3rd European Nienhuis Montessori Retreat
The Importance of Storytelling
14 – 16 November 2014
learn, share and connect
15/11/2013
Friday
16:00
Registration
17:00
Opening & Introduction
17:30
18:00
18:30
The importance of storytelling | 0 - 3
The importance of storytelling | 3 - 6
The importance of storytelling | 6 - 12
19:00
Dinner
16/11/2013
Saturday
09:00
Stories and Toddler Books
10:00
Coffee break
10:30
Storytelling in the Children’s House
11:30
Coffee break
12:00
Revisiting the Time Line of Life
13:00
Lunch
14:00
Storytelling/--making activities, principles and suggestions
17:00
End
17:30
Dinner
Patricia Wallner
Madlena Ulrich
Carla Foster
Patricia Wallner
Madlena Ulrich
Carla Foster
All
17/11/2013
Sunday
09:00
Presentations, discussion, evaluation and conclusion | 0 - 3
09:45
Coffee break
10:15
Presentations, discussion, evaluation and conclusion | 3 - 6
11:00
Coffee break
11:45
Presentations, discussion, evaluation and conclusion | 6 - 12
12:30
Closing
Patricia Wallner
Madlena Ulrich
Carla Foster
Speakers & Lectures
Patricia Wallner – AMI Trainer 0 – 3
Patricia Wallner has been working in Montessori since 1970. She took her AMI 3-6
3
diploma in Washington D.C. and the 0-3
0 3 diploma in Houston, Texas with Dr. Silvana
Montanaro. For 17 years she worked in a bilingual Infant Community in Amsterdam,
The Netherlands where she lives. In 1995 she began the Training of Training
program supported by the Association Montessori Internationale and during her
training earned a Master’s
Master’s degree in Education. She has trained students and
lectured in Europe, Asia and the U.S.A. Her goal is to promote Montessori,
especially for the 0-3
0 age group in Europe.
Stories and Toddler books?
Young children love stories and poetry. They will learn to love books if they are given at this age.
We will talk about how to tell a story to a toddler and what characteristics to look for when we
choose books, stories and poems. We can also see how to make simple toddler books.
Madlena Ulrich – AMI Trainer 3 – 6
Madlena Ulrich spent her childhood in Germany and attended a Montessori
Elementary school there. She moved to Norway
rway as an adolescent and later obtained
a Bachelor’s degree as a preschool teacher
teacher and is about to finish a Master’s degree
in pedagogy
edagogy at the university
univers
College of Vestfold, Norway. She took her original AMI
3-6
6 training at Mount St. Mary’s Montessori College in
n Dublin, Ireland. Since 1995 she
has worked in the classroom and has been involved in the development of
Montessori
ontessori in Norway
No
by giving lectures and
nd serving as Vice President on the board
for the national association NMF.
NMF In 2008 she started on her Training of Trainer’s,
spending two years with Molly O’Shaughnessy in Minnesota and a summer course
with Ulla Wikefeldt in Sweden. She is currently part of the AMI faculty in China and
lectures in Norway as well as other countries.
Storytelling in the Children’s House
If we want to help our 5-year
year olds to become creative writers, we need
need to make sure that 50% of
our language activities are oral language. They do not only need words and an extensive vocabulary,
but must experience the joy of listening to and telling stories. At the retreat, we will practice
telling stories in all subject areas and practice on transforming dry facts to captivating tales worth
remembering. We will also explore how to use these techniques to make language materials.
Carla Foster – AMI Trainer 6 – 12
Carla Foster is originally from California, but has lived the last 14 years in Norway.
She graduated from UC Berkeley, California with bachelor's degrees in Social
Anthropology and Scandinavian Studies and a masters in Old Icelandic Literature and
Norwegian Literature. She has her AMI 3 - 6 diploma from the MMTO in London in
1984 and her AMI 6-12
6 12 diploma from Milwaukee in 1990 and has been working with
elementary children since 1990. She had her own class in Norway for 12 years before
joining the AMI Trainer of Trainers programme. Since then she has assisted on the
th
AMI 6-12
12 summer course in London with Ann Dunne and the AMI 6-12
6
course in
Chennai with Jean Miller. Any spare time is spent doing various forms of dance.
Revisiting the Time Line of Life
In this workshop we will use storytelling and song writing to create follow-up
up presentations to the
initial presentation of the Time Line of Life. These techniques can also be used to help elementary
children become "storytellers and songwriters of the truth".