Montessori Infant & Toddler Best Practices

Another highly requested Montessori seminar is coming your way!

Join Skye Dodson for her seminars on Positive Discipline for Toddlers and Respectful Caregiving for Infants. 

Positive Discipline, the Montessori Way, 9 am - 12 pm

This seminar will give parents and teachers the skills they need to practice positive discipline in the Montessori toddler community.  Positive Discipline provides parents and teachers the tools they need to set limits and boundaries in ways that teach children pro-social behavior.  Challenging behaviors are learning opportunities for children, and this seminar will give you concrete steps to redirect problematic behaviors. 

Respectful Caregiving for Montessorians, 1:30 pm - 4:30pm

Using Montessori, Pikler, and RIE principles, participants will explore the different developmental areas of infants and the curriculum of caregiving. Both theoretica (language, cognition, movement, autonomy, and sense of self)l and practical demonstrations (feeding, diapering, toilet learning, bottle feeding, purees, finger foods, weaning table, utensils, dressing, etc.) will be comprehensively covered. 

Both sessions will take in context the Montessori approach. Anything added to the Montessori practice has to be rooted in the same philosophy. By the end of the sessions, participants will have a good understanding of how positive discipline and respectful caregiving fits into and compares to the Montessori practice. 

About Skye

Skye Dodson holds a bachelor's degree in sociology from Guilford College, and an M.Ed in Education from Ashford University. She is also trained in mediation/ conflict resolution. Skye is Montessori credentialed in Birth to 3 and has completed the RIE 1 training. She has worked with infants and toddlers for 15 years and is the mother of 3 daughters. She currently works with toddlers 18 months to over 3 years. Skye trains birth to 3 Montessori teachers at Center for Montessori Teacher Education in North Carolina.  She also owns a consulting business serving families and schools. She is passionate about Montessori education and enjoys working with both teachers and families. She is a faculty member of MIA training centers in Vietnam, China, and the Philippines.

***Note: There will be no childcare services that will be offered during the duration of the seminar. Children who are walking are not allowed inside during the sessions for safety purposes. Please plan ahead for childcare arrangements. Breastfeeding infants who are not walking may stay with you during the sessions. 

You may choose to attend either of the seminars or both. Please make sure to pick the correct ticket and input your names correctly as this is how it will printed on your attendance certificate.