Hello! My name is Rebekah Williams. I am a graduate of Bennett Park Montessori Center, a public Montessori school located in Buffalo, NY.
In October of 2009, I embarked on a two-year training program to earn my Montessori Teacher Certification. The training program is offered by the Buffalo Montessori Teacher Education Program located in Clarence, NY.
My interest in this training program stems from a life-long dream to open an alternative, free-school style, Montessori high school in Buffalo. I have seen one example for this style of high school in The Meeting School located in Ringe, New Hampshire. The Meeting School is a co-educational Quaker boarding and day school with an organic working farm. I have heard that the Albany Free School, located in Albany New York, provides another model for this type of school.
Although attending this training program is just a beginning, it is an important beginning. In essence, I am coming full circle with the roots and foundations of my educational experience. I am reintegrating and developing a new understanding for the educational process that I loved as a young girl at Bennett Park.
I intend to use this blog to journal my experience, write response papers, share homework assignments, and pose questions that come up during the training.
I hope that other Montessori students, teachers and adventurers will join me on these pages…
